Sweet Demand: Calhoun resident expands dessert business | News
It was only two years ago that Samantha Hatfield of the Buck Creek community in Calhoun was asked by her oldest stepson, Aiden, to create a specialized dessert for his 13th birthday.
“I always make my kids’ birthday cakes; …it’s just what I’ve always done,” Hatfield said. “And he told me that he didn’t want a cake. And I said, ‘Well, what do you want?’ and he said, ‘Well, can you make a cookie (cake)?’ ”
Hatfield, 32, gave it a try and came out “decent” enough that friends and family members at the birthday party started requesting her to make cookie cakes for their own special occasions before word traveled through the grapevine to the rest of the county.
Hatfield decided to trade in her scrubs as a full-time nurse at Riverside Care &…
