Our story
The cookies I never stopped perfecting.
Hi, I’m Tina, founder and baker behind Dolce. Every cookie is made by hand in Orange County, with thoughtful ingredients, bold flavors, and the kind of care you can taste.
What started in my kitchen has grown into something I’m so proud to share with you.
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It started in my mom’s kitchen.
I grew up in San Diego, in the kitchen with my mom. She was a cake decorator, and I was her shadow, mixing, tasting, learning. What I really learned wasn’t a recipe. It was that baking is a way of slowing down and giving someone something beautiful. That idea never left me.
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Then life got busy, and I found my way back.
I finished my MBA, got married, moved to a new city, and spent a while figuring out what came next. In all of that in-between, I went back to the one thing that always felt like home. Baking became my quiet escape, a way to make something beautiful in the middle of the unknown. Turns out that was the whole answer.
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Every batch I gave away came back as a request.
I baked for friends, and then their friends, one box at a time. Dolce by Tina didn’t start as a business. It started as a feeling I wanted to hand to people, and it grew because they kept asking for more. It still feels exactly that personal.
WATCH
The story, in her words.
A few minutes with Tina on how Dolce began, and the year that changed everything.
Still made by hand. Every single one.
I use only the finest butter and chocolate, and every cookie is mixed, scooped, and baked by hand. Each one is a full six ounces, so the edges go crisp and caramelized while the center stays soft and gooey. Nothing about them is rushed, and nothing about them is ordinary.
The box is part of the gift.
Every order arrives in the drawer box, six cookies in their own compartments. People tend to take a photo before they slide it open. Add a note at checkout and I’ll write it in myself. That’s the part I love most, knowing a box I packed is about to make someone’s day.
I’ll let them say it.
“A work of art.”
Cindy · Google
“You can tell she has passion and talent.”
Steph · Google
“The best, freshest cookies ever.”
John · Yelp
As seen in the OC Register · Patch · ShoutoutLA · Eat This Not That
Orange County today. A lot further tomorrow.
Right now I bake for Orange County, for pickup and local delivery. But I’m building Dolce to reach a lot further than that, without ever losing the thing that started it: one person, making something beautiful by hand, for someone who’ll remember it. The cookies get to more people. The care behind them doesn’t change.
Come find your favorite.
Start with the Biscoff, everyone does, or find the one that’s yours. I bake in small batches, and the fresh ones go quickly.