Granny Lyn starting baking when she was very young, first helping her Mom in the kitchen by learning how to make awesome shortbreads that her Mom made only made at Christmas. Her baking experience expanded during her teenage years to making cakes, squares, cookies and sweets for her family.

Next she started making over 20 different types of Christmas cookies for family gatherings. Always trying new types of cookies and re-inventing recipes, it was with great anticipation that the family would wait to see the festive and decorated dessert platters arrive at the Christmas Gift Exchange.

Granny Lyn never went to culinary school, or studied to be a pastry chef. Instead she pursued a career in pharmaceuticals by studying chemistry and microbiology, and worked with several big name pharmaceutical companies in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. She started her own consulting company in 2003, and for several years she would bake to unwind from the challenges of assisting her Clients and managing a successful company. Often sharing the baked creations with several friends, neighbours and her Clients, she would hear them say “you should open a bakery”.

Granny Lyn’s Kitchen came to be one summer night at the cottage when her step-son and family were visiting. What started out as a joke by calling her Granny Lyn soon became her moniker and the bakery’s name was created.

After leaving the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in 2015, she headed north to Huntsville with her husband and two fox red Labrador Retrievers, and decided to go for her dream of opening a bakery and sharing her cookie and cake creations.