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Couple Starts Home-Based Bakery Selling Quirky Goji Berry Nutella Cookies To Teach Son With Autism Job Skills

['Gan Delights', ' is not your typical ', ' ', '—', ' to owners Rachel and Ming Gan, both 39, it’s a family business that they hope to one day pass down to their eight-year-old son, Cal, who has autism.\xa0', 'No part of this story or photos can be reproduced without permission from ', '8days.sg', '.', 'Feeling hopeful about Cal’s progress, Rachel says her hope is for Gan Delights “to be passed down to Cal eventually so that through this he will be able to live a life of dignity and self-reliance, and have something of his own that he can be proud of”. When he’s older, Rachel plans to teach him how to make her recipes.\xa0', 'Currently, she observes that Cal has shown some interest in baking. As he’s a food-loving eight-year-old, Rachel shares: “When I bake, he’ll stand at the side and watch.”', 'While she had set up her bakery biz in hopes that Cal will be able to take over in the future, Rachel is more than open to him pursuing other career paths. “To be honest, we don’t really know what the future holds for him, so if he has other interests, of course he’s free to explore them,” she says.']