Delving into Colombo’s cookie culture
range of cookie types from the standard chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, white chocolate chunks, double chocolate chips, red velvet, oreo crumble/ oreo stuffed cookes (a cookie within a cookie!), nutella stuffed cookies and even shortbreak biscuits.
One of her more popular items is the “Say it with a cookie” - a concept where customers can order a giant 8 inch cookie smothered in chocolate ganache, made special with custom- ized wording iced on its surface, allowing customers to #sayitwithacookie - a hashtag made popular by cookies and you. Making it an edible card one could receive on occasion.
Her ever popular salted caramel sauce also seems to find a way into all her confections whether stuffed into cookie cups, trickled on mammoth cookies or just preserved in jars to be dipped into when necessary.
Among her versatile confection and come up with her own signature recipe.
However, to achieve the “wow” factor of her cookies is “more than just one ingredient” she shares adding “It’s all the tips and tricks that I’ve learnt over time,” on her road “to master the perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie”. In addition to this Rukaiya doesn’t restrain herself in adding quality ingredients in her baking. She affirms “high quality ingredients is something we swear by in order to bake the perfect cookie or any baked good in that matter”.
Throughout the journey of her venture Rukaiya shares “I have thoroughly enjoyed it”. Although she laughs “sharing my mom’s kitchen isn’t all that fun”. In future she hopes “to have my own space and I do see myself expanding in some way”.
Her tagline “Love at first bite” is an acute description of her customer’s reactions to her products. She comments “It’s truly amazing to know that something you are passionate could be something that makes someone else happy”