Orders are coming in quickly for Kyle Sandercoe’s Christmas dry ingredient jars with two favourite festive season flavours on offer.

Kyle’s Kitchen has white Christmas and M&M cookies jars available for order and on shelves at Liv4 Home and Kitchen, Cooma Mitre 10. Locally, there is no better sweet treat than Kyle Sandercoe’s dry ingredient jars featuring his favourite sweet treat recipes.

You may see Kyle around town as the bubbly man who always remembers your birthday, but there is much more to Kyle than his good memory.

Kyle has taken his passion for cooking and turned this flair into a business, Kyle’s Kitchen.

Kyle lives with an intellectual disability, global delay, and autism but this has never stopped him from achieving his goals. Those who know him say he is a very determined man who when he puts his mind to things, there is rarely anything he can’t do.

The two Christmas jars are inspired by the festive season in the Sandercoe household, where white Christmas and green and red M&Ms are very popular.

With Christmas approaching quickly, the perfect gift for your loved one might just be a sweet treat.

Previously a member of Cooma Challenge’s Australian Disability Enterprises (ADE) program, Kyle delivered pamphlets two days a week for almost 10 years.

In late 2023, Cooma Challenge’s ADE program shut its door and it was time for Kyle to find something new to do with his time.

For anyone who knows Kyle, change can be confronting and after being in a routine of doing this for 10 years, the transition was tough.

Kyle, a member of the Disability Trust Cooma for more than seven years, has built great friendships and trust with staff. Kyle has a regular routine of baking cookies on Tuesdays and cupcakes on Fridays with staff.

Kyle is a wizz in the kitchen, but it didn’t start out this way. With consistency and routine, Kyle can now do this unsupported most days.

On a random Thursday, former Disability Trust worker and Kyle’s friend, Ash, was sitting in the office with Kyle.

As Kyle was drinking his hot chocolate with marshmallows, a daily ritual for him, the duo came up with an idea to combine Kyle’s knack for cooking with a work program.

With the help of staff and friends, Ash and Kate, Kyle’s Kitchen was formed.

It’s a way of bringing Kyle’s love for baking to members of the community and surroundings.

Dry ingredient jars of Kyle’s favourite sweet treat recipes were created. All you need to do is add the wet ingredients and mix.

Ash said Kyle has embraced the idea and now through lots of hard work, the jar orders are flying out the door.

“Within the hour the business proposal was sitting on Jan’s (Kyle’s mum’s) desk. I remember her picking it up and just being like ‘what’s this?’. When I explained it to her she was almost in tears,” Ash said.

“When we initially proposed the business idea to Kyle it was a flat no. We had some work to do.

“Weeks went by, then I’d start getting texts from Kyle, I knew he was coming around to it, and we couldn’t be more excited to start the journey.”

Jan said Kyle is enjoying putting the jars together. She said the community has embraced Kyle’s Kitchen and the support has been lovely.

“When the ADE stopped we were at a loss, it happened so quickly,” Jan said.

“Ash’s idea has really helped Kyle and together they started the kitchen. It’s been terrific seeing the support from so many people, the jar orders really took off.”

The jars are proving popular for presents or for easy baking at home. Liv4 Home and Kitchen at Cooma Mitre 10 and Sandy’s Grooming and K9 Cafe in Cooma stock jars.

The flavours in addition to the Christmas ones, include: vanilla choc chip cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes, choc chip cookies and Anzac biscuits.

To purchase your jar, follow the link on Facebook and Instagram @kyleskitchen2630. Get your Christmas orders in early.