Our Story
It’s Not Just a Butter Tart, It’s an Experience
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Our journey began in 2016
Carla’s story starts with her love and passion for family. Carla’s Cookie Box is an independent, woman-owned, and locally operated online bakery. She specializes in Award-Winning Gourmet Butter Tarts, Artisanal Cookies, & Luscious Deep Fudge Brownies. Carla started her online baking business from a blooming love of baking as an Italo-Canadian.
My Italian roots and passion for anything sweet prompted me to really hone in on my grandmother’s traditions. I love when food comes from its natural state. The simplicity in cooking is what makes our ancestor’s food so flavourful.
I wanted to support other people that were doing what I was doing but I didn’t have the financial means to do it. I decided right from the start of my business that purchasing local raw materials to make my own product was the way I could do my part to support farmers & local artisans.
Italian Canadian
Born Canadian and raised Italian, Carla’s story continues with her love for baking. At a young age, she would watch and help her mother in the kitchen with her many traditional cookies for Christmas and other special occasions. As Carla matured into an adult, she began experimenting with her recipes.
Keeping true to Italian traditions, she keeps everything simple but flavourful and adds a spin to her traditional recipes.
I love to be creative but I am horrible at drawing. LOL. One way I learned to be creative was in the kitchen. I began to experiment with traditional desserts and started adding unique spins to my favourite desserts, this is where I came up with my many different Gourmet Butter Tart flavours.
Life Changing Decisions
At 39 years old, Carla’s story made a dramatic turn. She lost her conventional job in an office and had to decide what to do with her life. With three young children and bills to pay, she was faced with uncertainty. Carla agreed it was time to take a leap of faith in herself and dive into new territories. She wanted to show her young family that it was NEVER too late to follow a passion.
I decided to start this little business during one of the most desperate times of my life. It was incredibly scary and invigorating at the same time. My children are the one thing that drove me and continues to drive me. I wanted to show my children that it is never too late to have a dream and follow a passion. There is beauty that lies underneath hard work and determination.
Shifting Focus
Today, Carla's story continues as she is also focusing on giving back. After the tragic loss of her brother, Paul Brizzi, by a drunk driver, Carla decided to start an initiative to make a change.
She teamed up with MADD Canada to sell quarantine / graduation t-shirts in 2020 after her brother was killed in August 2019. Each of those shirts raise $10 that goes toward MADD Canada but more importantly, raises awareness to NOT Drive Impaired.
"My younger brother, who was and still is very near and dear to my heart was killed by a drunk driver. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him or weep over him. He was a very pivotal person in my life and continues to be so. I refuse to let his death be in vain and I am determined to ensure another family does not go through the pain my family and I continue to live through."
Carla will continue to raise awareness and advocate to ensure other families don't have to go through the devastation her family had to go through. Carla's MADD campaign can be supported year-round.
In the Press
Carla’s Cookie Box has been frequently featured across many different media platforms.
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