<p>Mallory Jones Oniki studied finance, graduated into a pandemic, and started posting cookie videos on an app she barely understood. Five years and over 6,000 test cookies later, she's <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="e-10100-text-link e-10100-overflow-wrap-anywhere encore-internal-color-text-announcement e-10100-text-link--use-focus sc-exZoUi bkUweg" href="https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCq8P5yHw4zgUjlXSCbXJFVQ">⁠ @thepalatablelife ⁠</a> ; a recipe developer and content creator with over a million followers on TikTok, and now a debut cookbook author. Cookie Club is 80 recipes, nine custom paintings, and two years of baking from her home kitchen with her four-year-old cracking eggs beside <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://her.In">her.In</a> this episode, Mallory gets into how her viral Cookies Inspired by TV Shows series put her on the map, why she refused to niche down even when the algorithm rewarded it, what it actually takes to go from a $500 brand deal to a full-time creator career, the wild two-year process of landing a publisher and testing thousands of cookies, and the one recipe she tried over and over again before finally cutting her losses (RIP mochi cookie). Whether you're thinking about betting on a creative side hustle, curious what goes into writing a cookbook from scratch, or just need someone to tell you that trying is worth more than timing it perfectly, this one's for you.</p><p>Find Cookie Club: Available wherever books are sold (Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Williams Sonoma)🔗 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://sites.prh.com/cookie-club">sites.prh.com/cookie-club</a></p><p>Find The Palatable Life:📲 @thepalatablelife (Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube)🔗 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://thepalatablelife.com">thepalatablelife.com</a></p><p>Find Womansplain:📲 @womansplainpod✉️ <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>