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Years ago, living in New York City on meager means, Susan
Trankle wanted to get holiday gifts for her friends but couldn't’
afford much. A simple box of dog-eared index cards held the
answer. The box held secrets of her youth, the family recipes
passed on from her mother, whom she spent countless days
baking with as a child. Within a few days, she had baked dozens
and dozens of cookies, and her friends now count on them as
an annual holiday tradition.
Trankle, who calls what she does “comfort baking,” has taken
these and other recipes into a professional kitchen for the first
time when she opened Suzie’s Mixing Bowl in early April 2005.
The shop actually opened the day of the great flood, and as
fortune would have, river-watchers flooded in that day. “I
could’t have arranged for better visibility or publicity – for us,
the disaster turned into deluge of success. Despite our good
fortune, I felt terrible for those not as lucky that day.”
As for the comforts, “I don’t do no carb, low carb, or no sugar,” she says. “It’s all eggs, sugar and butter… lots of butter.
People work so hard these days that they should feel good about treating themselves or indulging friends and loved ones –
that’s why I’m here.”
After getting the baking bug that fateful winter in Manhattan, she expanded her range by making birthday cakes for friends.
One thing led to another and during any breaks she had from her day job in the fashion industry, she began to hone her
skills with local Wilton cake decorating courses.
A few years later a family move to Washington derailed her fashion career, and while surfing the web one day she came
across information about an annual convention for cake decorators from around the world. Seeing that it was taking place
in Portland, Oregon, just a few hours from where she lived, she jumped in the car and changed her life. Inspired by the
world she discovered, Trankle found the Wilton School of Confectionery Art in Chicago and traveled back and forth
between Illinois and Washington, taking Masters Course classes in cake decorating, chocolate artistry, and cakes for
catering, among others.
When she and her husband had the chance to move back east, Trankle saw this as the opportunity she was looking for. “I
decided then that if I was going to work for someone it might as well be myself,” says Trankle. After visiting Easton, she and
her husband fell in love with the area, saw the revitalization opportunities in the town and wanted to be a part of it.
“I’m really looking forward to using this shop as a creative outlet,” Trankle says. “It’ll feature the kind of baked goods your
mother or grandmother would make. Or you wish they made.”
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