When Andrea Greene started baking with her daughter on the weekends, she coikies thought it would turn into a career. Read on to see how she did it! A pharmacy in her town was famous for their vanilla extract, and my mom would order gallons of it and use it in her recipes. A few years ago, I was working long hours at a corporate job, so I started to bake cookies on moneu weekends to de-stress and spend time with my daughter. So inI launched Connecticut Cookie Company. At night, I spent time contacting local media to tell them about my business.