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One-woman candy-making business ready for Valentine's Day

What was once just a fun hobby is now a business venture for Marcy Marzloff.

CUMMING, Ga. — If you’re looking for a sweet treat to give someone this Valentine’s Day, look no further than Once Upon A Lollipop! It’s a Facebook page started by Marcy Marzloff, and it’s now keeping her busy round the clock. She said it all started with her kids.

“I've always been the type of mom who said, ‘what type of cake do you want?’ It did not matter what kind of cake they wanted, that's the kind of cake they were going to get,” Marzloff said.

She moved to Georgia less than two years ago and said she did a lot of baking just to pass the time.

“If I sat around and ate everything that I baked, I would weigh 300 lbs. So I just brought everything into work and gave it away,” Marzloff said.

One of her coworkers encouraged her to start selling the items, so she created the Facebook page to garner interest.

“It just flourished. It just took off really well,” Marzloff said.

She said the secret to success is all about finding inspiration and staying passionate.

“I think you have to really love what you do, because if you don't love what you do, it's not going to be successful,” Marzloff said. “There's a little blue notebook that I have in my purse, and it's with me all the time. I don't care where I am. I'll be walking around, and I'll see a building that's just really beautiful, and I'll think, ‘that archway would be really pretty to do in chocolate, like that pattern would be really pretty in chocolate,’ so I will just kind of sketch it out.”

Her best-sellers are currently her homemade marshmallows which can be made with any flavoring and her cheesecake-filled chocolate dipped strawberries. She caters to people with dietary restrictions, offering gluten-free, dairy-free, and peanut-free options. She also enjoys teaching people her cooking tricks.

“We can do decorate-your-own cupcakes or cookies,” Marzloff said. “We can do workshops. If anybody wants to learn how to do this, we can come teach you.”

To learn more, just checkout her Facebook page

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