- July 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
News 12 Staff
Jul 27, 2021, 2:37am
Updated on: Jul 27, 2021, 2:37am
A hobby became a lucrative business for a Cobble Hill couple who turned their croissants into cash.
The two-person cottage bakery, which started in an apartment, will be moving to a retail space in the fall.
Longing for a slice of home, Gautier Coiffard and his wife Ashley started baking during the pandemic.
“He was missing French bread like he used to eat back in the day when he lived in France,” Ashley Coiffard explains.
It was a new experience for the engineer by day.
“I always liked cooking but not necessarily baking and yeah… No ,it was a challenge for me to make bread the way I like it and then some other people liked it,” Gautier Coiffard recalls.
The bread was so well received that the couple decided to turn it into a side hustle, whipping up not just bread, but croissants and other pastries with the hopes of paying for their upcoming nuptials.
“We ended up paying for the whole wedding…
