Santísima Galleta
Artisan Cookie Brand & Dark Kitchen
About this project
A pandemic side project that became a real micro-business. What started as a personal obsession with recreating Levain Bakery's famous NYC cookies — discovered through a Korean-language video a colleague found during our weekly frontend mentoring sessions — evolved into a fully operational artisan cookie brand delivering across CDMX. After dozens of test batches, the breakthrough came from an insight in a Netflix documentary: the magic of indulgent food lies in the precise fat-to-sugar ratio. Too much of either and it overwhelms you; the right balance makes it impossible to stop. That principle became the foundation for a modified recipe that produced a crispy-outside, soft-inside chocolate chip and walnut cookie. Friends and family who tasted it immediately said it should be sold — so it was. In Christmas 2025, after years without baking them, the cookies came out identical to the original. That's the kind of precision that carries over into everything else.
Key Features
- Recipe R&D: dozens of test batches applying fat/sugar ratio theory to crack the formula
- Full brand identity: logo design, eco-friendly hemp-based packaging, branded stickers and printed postal cards
- WooCommerce store on santisimagalleta.com with PayPal and OXXO Pay payment methods
- 80+ packages sold (6 cookies each, individually wrapped) — all from a home kitchen oven
- CDMX delivery logistics with per-order customer follow-up via WhatsApp and Instagram
- Corporate bulk order: DESICI sent a package to every remote developer in their team during lockdown
- Recipe precision: each cookie batch weighed and portioned identically using a kitchen scale
- Cookies pre-frozen before baking — the technique that delivers the signature texture
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Results & Soft Skills on Display
This project is less about the tech stack and more about what it demonstrates: the ability to identify a goal, iterate obsessively until it's right, build something from scratch across disciplines — recipe development, branding, packaging, e-commerce, logistics, and customer service — and turn it into a real revenue-generating product.
80+ packages delivered across CDMX. A corporate client. Repeat customers who still ask about it years later. When a Globant offer arrived in June 2021, the project paused. The recipe was set aside.
Project Details
- Year
- 2020–2021
- Role
- Founder · Baker · Designer · Developer
- Technologies
- WordPress, WooCommerce, PayPal, OXXO Pay, Brand Identity, Product Design