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Welcome! I’m Courtney DeGennaro Robinson, the baker behind the apron at Batter & Whisk Baked Delights, and I’m so glad you’re here.

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Making Life a Little Sweeter

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I started Batter & Whisk with one goal - to make all of your life’s most special moments a little sweeter. 

 

You see, all of my earliest, most precious memories share a common thread. In the background of every one of them, there’s an indulgent dessert waiting to be shared with beloved family and friends. Whether it was my grandma’s hard chocolate cake that showed up at every Christmas and birthday party, my mama’s perfect French cream puffs, painstakingly filled and frosted for every loved one’s baby shower, or my daddy’s beloved chocolate fudge pudding that he requested every chance he got, there was always some decadent sweet at the center of all those moments of love and laughter. 

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As soon as I was able to reach the mixing bowls, I was in the kitchen, trying to create a little of that magic for others.

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There were some disasters along the way, like the time that little 8-year-old me remembered a story about how my mom loved petit fours when she was my age and decided to try to make them for her as a surprise while she was out for the day. I found a recipe in her Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook and thought it looked easy enough - I mean, it was just cake, jam, frosting, and a tempered ganache glaze…  how hard could that be, right? 

 

Well, my mom came home to a surprise, all right… Just not the one I’d planned! She found the kitchen a wreck, a plate full of clumsily cut cake squares smeared with raspberry jelly, and a crestfallen kiddo covered in flour and powdered sugar who’d bitten off way more than she could chew. 

 

But when I look back at that first disaster, what I remember most is how my mom laughed and hugged me. How she thanked me for trying and told me that the thought was what counted. How she helped me clean up the mess I’d made and promised we could try again - this time, together. The petit fours were a failure, but the love I’d poured into them came through nonetheless. 

 

As I got older, I honed my skills and became known as the one who brought cookies to the study group and cakes to my college friends’ birthday parties (even when every normal 20-something brought beer 😂). I hosted Friendsgivings just to have an excuse to try out new pie ideas, and brought baked goods to the office to share so regularly that coworkers assumed I was out of town if a week passed without a new batch of goodies popping up in the company kitchen. 

 

Then one night, in the midst of wedding planning with my wonderful husband, Sean, I was browsing dessert recipes and fantasizing about baking my own dessert table when I found a recipe for macarons. The little, ambitious 8-year-old within me was once again fearless in the face of a notoriously fiddly french pastry, and I jumped right in. Safe to say, it was love at first feet! From that first batch, I knew I’d found the thing I could spend my entire life doing.

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After years of people asking, “Do you sell these?” and “Why aren’t you doing this for a living?!” I realized that they might be onto something. Nothing brings me as much joy as baking. Why not spend my time sharing that joy with others? So I started Batter & Whisk as a way to share the thing I love most with my community. Since then, I’ve baked thousands of macarons for catered parties, corporate events, birthdays, showers, holiday gifts, and sympathy gifts, not to mention holiday pies, gourmet cookies, celebration cakes, and countless other pastries. 

 

I look forward to sharing my passion with you in hopes that one of Batter & Whisk’s desserts will become part of one of your most precious memories.