Cupcakes, cookies and cinnamon rolls, oh my!
Brittney Cummings Murdie is a new cottage-food law baker in Jackson County under the name Petal & Whisk Bakery, and one bite of her sweets and you know it comes from the heart.
She’s been baking since she was a little girl, and learned from her mother, Lucinda, who will be retir - ing this year from Industrial East as the music teacher. In fact, Murdie uses her mother's sugar cookie rec - ipe, and adds her own little oomph. "I'm the daughter of Houston Cummings, who was the Industrial band director, we moved to Edna when I was seven and then moved to Rice Consolidat - ed when my father got a job there," Murdie said. "I graduated in 2009, moved back here, and have been here ever since." Baking and pastries has been Brittney's passions, but it always didn't take a front seat in her life. She'd even toured the Art Institute in Houston, but as life often does, it finds its own path, and for her, it took the form of her husband Dakota, and three sons, Canaan, Isaiah and Gideon.
