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Michigan baker April Palmer runs a home-based business specializing in custom decorated cookies.

Palmer started her business to help pay for her daughters' college education.

She uses a modified shortbread and Royal icing recipe, emphasizing the use of butter for flavor.

Palmer offers monthly cookie decorating classes in Dundee and Temperance, Michigan.

TEMPERANCE, MI — Baker April Palmer says butter makes everything taste better.

The 50-year-old owns and operates a home-based business she calls April’s Sweet Confections by April Palmer .

More than two decades ago, Palmer’s interest in baking began when she started making birthday cakes for her daughters, Autumn and Katelyn. She soon became known for her decorated cakes and would takes orders from family and f

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