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This jobless engineer became ‘Cookie Lady’

MAYNARD — If you have two master’s degrees, one in chemical engineering, and can’t find a job, what do you do? The answer for Laura Weinstein: bake cookies.

With time on her hands after graduating from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Weinstein, 25, pored over cookie recipes in cookbooks and on the Internet. She tested and tweaked, and came up with inventive versions. “I like to put crazy things inside,” she says.

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If you haven't already, try this woman's cookies! In-freakin-credibly good.