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Angie Tucker, left, and Christin Kubasko, right, in their Southern Sugar bakery.
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by LESLIE MAXWELL
BEFORE 2015, ANGIE TUCKER, 36, AND CHRISTIN KUBASKO, 28, SPENT their days as Wake County high school guidance counselors. Evenings, they baked. Using Tucker’s home oven and a standard KitchenAid mixer she’d received as a wedding gift, the duo baked and decorated custom sugar cookies and cookie cakes in Tucker’s home kitchen late into the night. About two years in, Tucker realized their work had doubled her electricity bill, and that the two, calling themselves Southern Sugar Bakery, were doing little besides going to school, baking, and decorating. They were making up to 40 dozen cookies a week.
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photographs by ERIC WATERS
