Entries by Susan

The Osgood File (2010)

Charles Osgood, Reporting by Mark Strassmann, CBS News Correspondent   The Osgood File. This is Charles Osgood.  There’s a secret ingredient in Susansnaps – the gourmet ginger snaps Laura Stachler started baking at home seven years ago.  Today, they bake and ship as many as 10,000 cookies a day. About the Stachlers, the cookies and […]

Auburn Magazine

By Michael Hansberry   Snaps for Cookies When life hands some people lemons, they make lemonade. When Susan Stachler Robbins (’04 Graduate) was handed a cancer diagnosis, she made cookies. Robbins, who began treatment for Hodgkin’s disease the year she graduated from Auburn university, was young, vivacious, and determined not to become a victim. Initially, […]

Sandy Springs Neighbor

Bakery to Host Fundraiser for Cancer Patients Susansnaps, the area’s only gourmet gingersnap cookie company, will host Sweets for Smiles, a fundraiser for cancer patients, Friday and Saturday at its store in Sandy Springs. All proceeds from the sale of Susansnap Spice Cake Slices ($4) and gingersnap Snack Packs ($5.50) will be donated to the […]

Atlanta INtown Paper (2010)

by Wendy Binns Companies that Care: Susansnaps Learn about Susansnaps and you’ll understand that this company was created to fight cancer with a 1-2 punch. Number one, the gingersnaps are cheerful and soothing (ginger is known as a natural stomach soother). Secondly, they raise big bucks for The Susan Carver Foundation ‘… because cancer is […]

The Sunday Paper (2010)

By Hope S. Philbrick Snap to It! Mother-Daughter Baking Team Settles into a Brick-and Mortar-Storefront Susansnaps, a gourmet ginger snap cookie company, grew from a tummy-comforting snack into a mother-daughter business that recently opened its first retail location in Sandy Springs. Laura Stachler (who previously owned Laura’s Divine Desserts) first developed Susansnaps as snacks for […]

Points North Magazine (2010)

By Anna Rhoades Give a Snap, See a Smile Mother-daughter team Laura Stachler and Susan Robbins have opened Susansnaps, a gourmet gift shop in Sandy Springs. Stachler began making ginger snap cookies in 2004 to soothe nausea, a side effect from chemotherapy, which both her daughter and husband were going through at the time for […]

Dunwoody Crier

By Carol Miemi Family Travails Sparks Susansnaps A Dunwoody mother and daughter recently turned family tragedy into triumph when they opened Susansnaps – a bakery and sweetshop they own and run together. Walk through the door of their business, and you are in pure confection. From the hand-painted walls, floors and furniture to the aroma […]

Martha Stewart Living

Watching her husband and daughter undergo chemotherapy, Laura wanted to help. Through her passion for baking she developed the ultimate gingersnap. Laura named the cookies Susansnaps for her sister who lost her battle with cancer and her daughter who beat the disease, and donates a portion of every sale to cancer research.

Atlanta Business Radio interview

Susan and Laura Stachler, of Susansnaps, were interviewed on Atlanta Business Radio. Each Wednesday at 10:00 AM, from their studio in Sandy Springs, Lee Kantor and Amy Otto interview Atlanta, Georgia’s top businessmen and businesswomen to learn what makes them the best at what they do. This week’s show was about coping with cancer. First […]

Susansnaps: A Good Thing

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Jennifer Bratt Talk about a survival story. Laura Stachler lost her sister, Sue, to cancer in 1977. A generation later, Laura sat with her husband and daughter, as both went through 28 rounds of chemotherapy.