Downturn In Economy Sends Woman Into Baking Mode
HAZEL PARK (WWJ) - Life served her lemons ... so she decided to make tarts and open a business in Hazel Park.
WWJ's Sandra McNeill talks with the owner of the new bakery La La Clay.
Last winter she decided to take a chance on a new business. Her husband had been laid off, so she put her love of baking to good use ... and opened a shop in Hazel Park.
At La La Cookies and Cake's you'll find inventive baked goods like Cake Pops and a Mini Gingerbread cakes with a slot to sit on the side of your glass.
After almost a year La La says she still enjoys the baking but it hasn't been easy: "There was a couple of months during the summer where I thought OK this was a bad idea - nobodies coming in but you have your spurts - you have busy months; Thanksgiving I was swamped. I made little turkeys and people just loved them," said La La.
She is putting in up to eighteen hour days but gaining fans like customer Betty Hitchcock: "It's a wonderful place and you can get some really unusual things that you just can't buy where things are massed produced."
La La is still hoping for the best.
"I don't expect to make any money ... second, third year maybe, but as long as I can pay the bills - we can keep the door open," said La La with a laugh.
La La bakes from some of the recipes her mother brought with her from N. Carolina.
"Butter and a little bit of love and passion, you've got to enjoy what you are doing or no matter what you do it's not going to taste right," said La La.
