For most people, a just-baked chocolate chip cookie can turn any frown upside down. For Loren Castle, the classic treat wound up being a lifesaver.
With little to lose following a brutal cancer battle, the native New Yorker — who wanted more than anything to live a normal, healthy, happy life — walked into Whole Foods with a plate of homemade cookies and a dream of owning her own, game-changing baking business.
Roughly a decade later — her “10-year overnight success,” Castle told The Post — Sweet Loren’s, an all-natural cookie dough company using plant-based, non-GMO, whole-grain ingredients free of gluten, dairy, eggs, tree nuts and peanuts, is the No. 1 brand in its category, sold in 25,000 supermarkets around the country.