Spruce Confections was started in 1992 by David Cohen while living in his best friend's basement on Spruce Street. Armed with a wooden spoon, mixing bowl, some butter, oats and a bad baking habit, Spruce began with the now famous "Old B Cookie"*. David hand delivered these cookies to local coffee shops on lunch breaks while working at a cafe on the Pearl Street mall.

Having a background in music composition from Oberlin Conservatory and no formal kitchen or business training, he spent his days figuring everything out from scratch. Baking, delivering, bookkeeping, sales, and so forth was a seven day a week job for the early years.