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HotCookie.com is pleased to announce that we will now be offering to host your child's next birthday party, field trip, or other special event.
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<p>HotCookie.com is pleased to announce that we will now be offering to host your child's next birthday party, field trip, or other special event! The 2 hour event will feature a tour of the bakery, cookie decorating, and the opportunity for your child to ship or hand deliver a personalized cookie to their loved ones. </p>
<p>Each event is $25 per child with a minimum of 5 children and a maximum of 12. We require at least 1 adult (parent or guardian) present at all events. Included in the cost is 3 cookies per child, all toppings and decorating supplies, packaging, shipping costs, cards, and ribbon.</p>
<p>To schedule a party or inquire for more information, please call us at (805) 564-2397.</p>
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On the first day of Christmas, the Santa Barbara News Press gave us Eggnog cookies by Christina Gumpert, owner of HotCookie.com in Santa Barbara.
<p>Reprinted from the Santa Barbara News Press</p>
<p>Christina Gumpert, owner of HotCookie.com in Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Miss Gumpert, 36, doesn't just drink eggnog; she eats it. A customer suggested this cookie this year and now she is selling it online. <br />As for what to drink with it? Coffee. Eggnog, she says, would be to much. It's rich enough on it's own: "You can't really eat dessert <em>and</em> drink eggnog."</p>
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<h2><strong>Eggnog cookies</strong></h2>
<p><strong>1 cup Butter, 1 ½ cups Sugar, ½ cup Eggnog, 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract, 1 Egg, 2 ½ cups Flour, 1 teaspoon Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon, <br />1 teaspoon Nutmeg </strong><br /><br />Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer. Add eggnog, vanilla and egg. Beat until smooth. Add flour, baking powder, <br />cinnamon, and nutmeg and beat at low speed until dry ingredients are moistened. Measure out desired size, roll into ball, then flatten slightly <br />on baking sheet. Sprinkle slightly with nutmeg before baking. Bake for 12 minutes checking by the minute after until bottoms are slightly browned. <br />(Different oven times vary, sometimes greatly). Transfer to cool flat surface. After cooled, spread on icing and sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.<br /><br /> <strong>Yield</strong>: about 3 dozen.<br /><br />Eggnog Icing:<br /><strong>3 cups Powdered Sugar, ¼ cup Softened Butter, 1/3 cup Eggnog (or more, depending on desired consistency), 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract </strong><br /><br />In a mixer bowl, beat powdered sugar and butter until well blended. Gradually beat in eggnog and vanilla and beat until icing is smooth.<br /> <strong>Yield</strong>: about 1 ½ cups.</p>
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We just can't help it - we love HotCookie.com. Is there anything better than getting a batch of freshly baked cookies delivered to your door?
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Reprinted from <a href="http://www.lovemikana.com/?q=wine%26dine" target="_blank">LOVEmikana.com</a></span></p>
<h2><span style="color: #333333;">The Way the Cookie Crumbles</span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Thursday, November 5, 2009<br /> <br />#imagebox#</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We just can't help it - we love HotCookie.com. Is there anything better than getting a batch of freshly baked cookies delivered to your door? After all, as HotCookie so perfectly points out, "you can't eat flowers." <br /> <br />Originally, HotCookie.com was a virtual bake-to-order website that only delivered their deliciousness. But to feed Santa Barbara's seemingly insatiable sweet tooth, this past February, they opened a retail shop on Cliff Drive. Now you can taste their treats on site, or online. <br /> <br />It's your anniversary/ birthday/ wedding shower/ baby shower/ promotion-at-work ... What do you want? A cookie?</span></p>
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Hot Cookie specializes in packaged gifts and party favors, sold online and now at a Mesa storefront
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<address>Christina Gumpert, the owner of Hot Cookie, shows off a gift platter she packaged in her new Mesa storefront.</address>
<p>Article reprinted from <a href="http://www.noozhawk.com/local_news/article/070109_cookie_shop_owner_enjoys_the_taste_of_sweet_success">Noozhawk.com</a>.</p>
<p>By Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer | Published on 06.30.2009</p>
<p>Hot Cookie specializes in packaged gifts and party favors, sold online and now at a Mesa storefront <br /><br />That’s Christina Gumpert’s motto, a statement never more evident than when you step through the door of her new Mesa storefront, Hot Cookie.<br /><br />The small-business owner is watching over a hulk of a mixer combining 12 cups of butter and 12 cups of sugar, ingredients that will make an army of butter cookies later in the afternoon.<br /><br />Since the Internet lacks an application that can translate olfactory sensations, you’ll have to imagine how heavenly the batter smells wafting out the store’s open front door. People stop in to grab a cookie or two, and Gumpert offers an after-school special of a cookie and milk for students, or adults, who wander in.<br /><br />But Gumpert’s main business plan has always been selling the cookies as gifts, packaging them by the dozen in paper and ribbons, and having them delivered.<br /><br />#medium_image:11#</p>
<p>“It’s a great business thank you, instead of flowers, which could be kind of weird in some cases,” she laughed. “They get the cookies and they share them with the office.”<br /><br />Hot Cookie’s new storefront at 2018 Cliff Drive opened in late January, although Gumpert has been selling the treats online since 2004. “It got busier and busier and busier,” she said, and knew she needed to make the transition to her own space from a rental kitchen.<br /><br />“I always knew I wanted to own my own business,” she said. “I just didn’t know what it would be.”<br /><br />Gumpert has a knack for desserts, borne out of the fact that her mom would never let her make dinner growing up, but would put her in charge of desserts for her family.<br /><br />Cookies seemed like a natural choice. Gumpert said she’s constantly adding new flavors to her classic lineup of cookies, which include butter, peanut butter chocolate chip, oatmeal chocolate chip, peanut butter, chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin.<br /><br />#medium_image:12#</p>
<p>She’s also been known to work up batches of brownies, lemon bars, seven-layer bars and caramel apples during the summer.<br /><br />Christmas and Valentine’s Day are big sellers, and she and one other employee work together to fill orders.<br /><br />People do come in to buy individual cookies, but Hot Cookie gets most of its business from online orders, and delivers for $10 anywhere from Goleta to Carpinteria. It also ships all over the United States.<br /><br />“It’s more of a gift-giving experience,” she said.<br /><br />She packages it that way, too. “I try to make it really cute and handmade and heartfelt,” she said. She also does cookies for weddings and themed parties, “where I can be creative,” she said.</p>
<h3>Call Hot Cookie at 805.564.2397.</h3>
<p>— <a href="http://www.noozhawk.com" target="_blank">Noozhawk</a> staff writer Lara Cooper can be reached at lcooper@noozhawk.com</p>
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Reprinted from Noozhawk.com Santa Barbara & Goleta
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I’m glad I was able to start online and establish a customer and wholesale base,” Gumpert said about opening the store.
<p><img title="Santa Barbara Independent" src="/system/files/3/large/Independent-logo.jpg" alt="Santa Barbara Independent" width="314" height="62" /><br />Reprinted from <a href="http://www.independent.com/news/2009/mar/25/hotcookiecom-opens-store/">Santa Barbara Independent.com</a>, by <a href="http://www.independent.com/staff/george-yatchisin/">George Yatchisin</a><br /><br />Christina Gumpert was once a woman with an oven and a dream. In 2004, she started <a href="http://hotcookie.com/">HotCookie.com</a>, an Internet company with a heart and a sense of good taste. From the site, you could order cookies and have them sent around the world or down your block, and if you ordered for someone who was close, Gumpert would probably make the delivery herself. Now those who hunger for her famous butter cookie or a peanut butter chocolate chip can buy them at her recently opened retail store at 2018 Cliff Dr. (564-2397). <br /><br />“I’m glad I was able to start online and establish a customer and wholesale base,” Gumpert said about opening the store. “I have a great staff, and I am in a great and very supportive town, so I am pretty positive.” The new store also features new and somewhat unusual baked goodies, starting with an agave-sweetened vegan cookie, orange almond biscotti, a brownie cookie, a lemon ginger, a trail mix, a snickerdoodle, all in addition to the original varieties. Not that HotCookie.com will stop there, for Gumpert claimed, “We are in the process of adding a Stevia-sweetened cookie and a gluten-free cookie!”</p>
<h4><a href="/places/hotcookiecom/">HotCookie.com</a></h4>
<p>2018 Cliff Dr., Santa Barbara<br />805-564-2397.</p>
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grand opening of their new store at 2018 Cliff Drive in the Mesa Shopping Center next to Albertsons
<p>Reprined from <a href="http://www.thedailysound.com/therestaurantguy/012609restaurant">The Daily Sound</a>, by John Dickson</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hotcookie.com">HOTCOOKIE.COM</a>: Santa Barbara’s popular online cookie service HotCookie.com will be expanding to the offline world on January 31st. This Saturday from noon – 6 p.m. they will be having a grand opening of their new store at 2018 Cliff Drive in the Mesa Shopping Center next to Albertsons. For more information contact owner Christina Gumpert at 564-2397 or visit hotcookie.com.</p>
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Ms. Gumpert points out, "you can't eat flowers."
<p>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-126095717.html">HighBeam Research</a>, Byline: Leah Etling</p>
<p>Dec. 12--Florists encourage you to say it with flowers.</p>
<p><strong>Christina</strong> <strong>Gumpert</strong> wants you to say it with a <strong>cookie</strong>.</p>
<p>The 31-year-old's <strong>cookie</strong> delivery service, Hot <strong>Cookie</strong>, is an innovative way to say thank you for a job well done, good report card or just because.</p>
<p>Because, as Ms. <strong>Gumpert</strong> points out, "you can't eat flowers."</p>
<p>Her creative cookies are made from recipes she has been using since she started baking as a teenager and contain no preservatives. They are baked and delivered the very same day, giving them the fresh taste you'd expect from something you made yourself.</p>
<p>She offers peanut butter, peanut ...</p>
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Reprinted from the Daily Sound, by JOHN DICKSON
<p><img title="The Daily Sound" src="/system/files/4/large/TheDailySound-logo.jpg" alt="The Daily Sound" width="448" height="104" /><br />Reprinted from <a href="http://www.thedailysound.com/results/093008-Restaurant-Guy">the Daily Sound</a>, By JOHN DICKSON<br /><br />I visit many restauants. And delis. And markets. And coffee shops. It's part of my “job.” A few months ago I started to notice that a lot the places I visit served cookies. Not long after that discovery I had a new revelation: most of these desserts are made by the same company: Hotcookie.com. While munching on one of these tasty treats at a downtown restaurant recently I asked the owner about Hotcookie.com and he quickly praised them. He said he loves them, the public loves them and that the lady who sells them is wonderful. <br /><br />Santa Barbara resident Christina Gumpert (founder of the company) migrated to Santa Barbara from Sun Valley, California and decided to start a business that sells instant happiness. Why cookies? "Because you can't eat flowers," Gumpert says. To guarantee freshness of their cookies, they bake them the same day they're ordered. Cookies are hand delivered for Santa Barbara residents and sent via USPS for all other orders. In the near future Hotcookie.com will be opening a storefront at 2018 Cliff Drive on the Mesa, next to Albertsons. For more information call 564-2397 or visit (of course) hotcookie.com.<br /><br /><em>John Dickson’s column appears every Tuesday in the Daily Sound. E-mail your restaurant news tips to info@SantaBarbara.com</em></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">“…BECAUSE YOU CAN’T EAT FLOWERS”</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Radius Group Commercial Real Estate is pleased to announce the first ever<br />HotCookie.com store grand opening will be October 2008, in the Mesa Shopping<br />Center in Santa Barbara. Business owner, Christina Gumpert leased the retail<br />space from Austin Herlihy of Radius Group, looking to increase her cookie<br />production by the dozens.<br /><br />Gumpert, a native of Sun Valley, CA started HotCookie.com in May of 2004 in<br />hopes of spreading her joy by baking delicious hot cookies for her clients.<br />Cookies are available by the dozen with six different kinds to choose from.<br />Cookies are baked the same day ordered and hand delivered by Gumpert to<br />Santa Barbara residents or sent USPS outside the Santa Barbara area.<br />Cookies are packaged and delivered in signature pink and brown decorated<br />boxes and include a handmade personalized gift card.<br />The future goal for HotCookie.com is to focus on increasing orders, expanding<br />the menu, and to venture more into catering and special events. Gumpert<br />says, “Everyone loves cookies, it’s a thoughtful and delicious gift<br />and...because you can’t eat flowers!”<br /><br />Why Radius Group Commercial Real Estate?<br />Radius Group Commercial Real Estate is a successful full-service<br />commercial real estate brokerage house on California's Central Coast. On<br />an annual basis, Radius Group brokers have completed a high number of<br />commercial sale and lease transactions. Radius Group’s success is a<br />result of their strong community involvement and dedication to clients'<br />needs that only a proven team of real estate professionals can bring.<br />Radius Group also contributes to the business community with regular<br />industry data reporting and forecasting. With a unique team philosophy as<br />its foundation, Radius Group maintains the distinct ability to not only meet<br />their clients' demands, but go above and beyond expectations to produce<br />desired results with an exceptionally high degree of diligence and flexibility.<br />For more information about Radius Group visit www.radiusgroup.com.</p>
<h3>FAST FACTS</h3>
<h3>Kinds of Cookies:</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">- Butter<br />- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip<br />- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip<br />- Peanut Butter<br />- Chocolate Chip<br />- Oatmeal Raisin</p>
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2009-10-08T02:33:05+00:00
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<p>When creating your guest list, there will always be those few who live so far away, yet they make sure they are there to share your special day. Being the busy bride you are, wouldn't it be nice to show them how much you appreciate them coming. Unfortunately, you’re a little short on time with the wedding so near. Good news, why don’t you give them a warm welcome with homemade cookies. The best part is all you have to do is pick the phone up, thanks to Hot Cookies (805- 564- 2397). Homemade cookies in different varieties like peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, and chocolate chip will be delivered straight to their hotel room. Leave it to Christina Gumpert to do the work. A dozen gift box cost $22.50 and you can even arrange party favors for reception. Christina says cookies are better because, “You can’t Eat Flowers!”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hotcookie.com/" target="_blank">www.hotcookie.com</a></p>
<p>Happy Eating! ~ Rachel Nickens</p>
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