Read our conversation with the Cookie Lady herself!

Like many of our vendors, Laurie began her journey toward starting a business by doing what she loves for free. "My friend brought me to my first farmers market because she said I should look at selling the baking that I was always giving away, and I walked out of that first market as a vendor!"

Joining the market in 1994, Laurie's uniquely thin iced cookies took off right away! Their business name was chosen by nature of how quickly word spread: "People would call to order and say 'Hi, are you the cookie lady?'" Laurie recalls. 

Her favourites amongst her own products are not the famous iced cookies, but the more traditional gingerbread and shortbread that she brings out during the holidays. These are the cookies she would make with her mother as a child. "My mother was an avid baker. …