Marsha Pener Johnston went from just imagining it to creating it … a line of delicious, decorative and decadent brownies on a stick named “Browniepops.”

Marsha honed her culinary skills while in college and then later at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France. She taught cooking classes in Los Angeles after college, but eventually moved to Chicago to start her own business.

Going door to door in Chicago with a homemade, chocolate mousse pie, she landed several restaurant accounts. She also taught cooking classes while studying with several well known chefs. Three years and 40 restaurant accounts later, Marsha moved back to her hometown of Prairie Village, Kansas.

Back in Kansas, she started a catering business known for its luscious cakes, cookies and brownies. For the next two years, Marsha went on a quest for the perfectly moist and gooey brownie. After studying in Paris once again at Anne Willan’s famous La Varenne cooking school, she developed the perfect techniques to create Brownie Pops.

Marsha and her staff bake and package the Brownie Pops in her commercial kitchen, while she handles paperwork from her home office.

Most of her sales are through retailers … she’s in Williams-Sonoma catalogs for the holidays … but her online business is picking up.

Sweeeeeeeet!