Cindy Kruse makes some of the most delicious cookies Miami has ever tested at her Cindy Lou’s Cookie shop in Little River. But these aren’t just any cookies — and Cindy isn’t just any baker.

She’d been working for more than 25 years as a pastry chef at fine restaurants, making the kind of desserts you want to take photos of for Instagram. But she decided one day she was tired of slaving for restaurant owners. And she started making the kinds of desserts she wanted to eat: Cookies.

They were an instant — and now they’re spreading to Cindy Lou's Cookies stores across the country. She talks about it with Carlos Frías and Amy Reyes on this episode of La Ventanita, the Miami Herald food podcast.

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