Sweet Rolling Pins joy curators Stacy and Kurt Krems have cultivated something bigger than baking. With their embossed and textured rolling pins, they’re encouraging a new way to create family memories. Their rolling pins are nostalgic talismans for quality time together, vessels for growing rote memories with the ones we love to bake and laugh with.
Inspired by summers with her grandmother in Palisade (known for its peaches, yes, but…), it’s really where Sweet Rolling Pins' origin story begins. Stacy remembers the heart-impact that chats with her grandmother at the kitchen table, small moments sewing and fishing and going to church, had on her as she reflects on who she is now. It’s where Stacy’s memories melded together into a patchwork of prized core memories.
“I attribute our success and my joy to those summers,” she says.
“My husband Kurt was the mastermind behind the idea of this business,” Krems says. “He was a software engineer, but has always been a creator and builder. His love of tools and machines led us to purchasing our first laser engraver and by osmosis...he just knew how to run it and use it... he's such a natural. He grew up tinkering in the garage with his dad and created a lifelong love of creating.”
Sweet Treats Customized
Together, their success is evident. With over 200 designs, Sweet Rolling Pins, available locally at Aspen Kitchens and Sparrow Hawk Gourmet Cookware, as well as across Colorado, caters to the heart hugs and smiles of every novice or expert baker, crafter or potter. Stacy’s favorite design: the Floral Swirl, which she attributes to being universal and something that can be used year-round. The other, Goofy Reindeer, “is perfect for little ones to help you,” and comes as both a rolling pin or a cookie cutter and stamp. Each rolling pin comes with its own recipe for Springerle Shortbread cookies, which can easily be modified as the seasons change, with dashes of pumpkin spice or cinnamon, and whose texture easily complements the rolling pins.
“It’s easy and it’s fast,” she says.
Roll Out Your Own Memories
Paired with Krems’ cookbook, Just Roll With It, Recipes for Easy Embossed Cookies, bakers will have the tools needed to imprint lasting memories of their own across the kitchen table, as they roll out their own small batches of cookies or salt dough ornaments. Keeping little hands engaged, the cookbook has coloring pages in the back, in case tiny bakers (or parents) need a mini-break.
It’s hard not to be inspired by Krems, whose joy is palpable and effusive, and exemplified on the website’s inspiration page. From Creative Clay Creations to best bets for the perfect Springerle, her thoughtful investment in Sweet Rolling Pins is contagiously rooted in her own joy-filled stories and warmth.
“Life doesn’t have to be so hard. We need to love each other. We have the ability to give joy,” she says. “Let the cookies burn. It doesn’t matter who you’re with, it’s that you’re together,”
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