The Seattle Times - SOMETIMES YOU have to leave home to find yourself. That’s what happened to Robin Wehl Martin, owner of the successful Hello Robin cookie bakery on Capitol Hill.
When Robin was growing up on Mercer Island, she learned how to bake from her grandmother. Margot Wehl had moved to Seattle from Germany in 1948 and worked as a private chef. “She was known for her baking,” says Robin, adding that her grandmother made traditional German sachertortes, plum cakes and apple cakes that were rather sophisticated for young Robin and her brothers.
But the Wehl children all loved their grandma’s sugar cookies. “She would make them in October for Halloween and for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah,” Robin says. She has baked sugar cookies since, and even made them for her grandmother’s funeral.
When Robin was growing up on Mercer Island, she learned how to bake from her grandmother. Margot Wehl had moved to Seattle from Germany in 1948 and worked as a private chef. “She was known for her baking,” says Robin, adding that her grandmother made traditional German sachertortes, plum cakes and apple cakes that were rather sophisticated for young Robin and her brothers.
But the Wehl children all loved their grandma’s sugar cookies. “She would make them in October for Halloween and for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah,” Robin says. She has baked sugar cookies since, and even made them for her grandmother’s funeral.