Provided by Reyna Glenn

A fresh batch of Reyna’s M&M cookies.

After a long day of balancing equations and taking notes in class, a girl comes home from school and sets down her bag. She checks her phone to find three more cookie orders for the next school day.

She goes into the kitchen and starts to get the ingredients for her iconic brown butter chocolate chip cookies. She spends the rest of her afternoon mixing and baking so that her cookies are perfect. The next day, she brings her orders to her customers. Yet again, her cookies are a hit! 

Junior Reyna Glenn runs her own cookie-selling business that has gained popularity around Huntley High School. From her most popular brown butter chocolate chip to peanut butter and banana bread cookies, Glenn’s baking is always a hit.

Glenn’s love for baking started when she was a little kid. As she got older, she started to become more serious about it.

“I’ve baked all my life,” Glenn said. “I’ve always just enjoyed it, but I definitely started [to bake] more during COVID-19.”

For only one dollar a cookie, Glenn started to sell her homemade cookies in her freshman year. Starting out by selling cookies to her friends, word about her cookies soon spread. 

“I brought them to school one day, and then my mom was like, ‘Hey, you can make some money off that, ‘” Glenn said.

Currently, Glenn is taking orders through her Snapchat and Instagram. She will usually make one batch of a certain flavor of the week and see if anybody is interested in it. She will then bring those orders to school, deliver them, and then collect payment there.

Glenn’s parents also support her in her cookie-making endeavors.

“I love that [Reyna] loves to bring a lot of sunshine or smiles to those who love her delicious cookies,” Glenn’s mom, Marlen Glenn, said. “I’d be proud of her no matter what she does. She is an amazing human.”

Reyna is independent in the taking, making, and packaging of her orders. She even views baking as a potential career path after high school.

“She manages everything by herself unless she starts baking too late in the evening,” Reyna’s father, KC Glenn, said. “Then it becomes a fun family event to help bag them.”

Reyna’s final words of wisdom for anybody who was thinking about starting a small business are to stay persistent to make sure people pay you for your time. Also, “don’t be afraid to let your friends help you out,” Reyna said. “Do not be afraid to get out there either.”