Cookie Exchange - From PK? What?

Are you kidding me? A cookie recipe? From PK? I don't cook. But never one to be left out completely, I will tell you about the best cookie in the world. 

It's a white chocolate chip, oatmeal, blueberry cookie. Do I have the recipe? Have I made these fantastic cookies - of course not. But I have where you can order them. This cookie did win the best cookie contest in Southern Living Magazine one year. This is a tiny little cookie company that ships all over the world. And it actually began as a senior class project. 

Mollie and a friend decided to get a dozen cookies from this company for a friend's birthday. They went to pick them up and the cookies didn't even make it back to their apartment. When you pick them up hot you just sit in the car and eat them. They are amazing!

So go to their website, look over all the cookies they have and while you're waiting on your order you can read below how this little company began.

https://appcookieco.com/

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Appalachia Cookie Company makes cookies the way your grandma’s grandma made them: from scratch, with real ingredients. Our products range from the traditional (Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoodle, etc…) to the unique (Blueberry White Chocolate Oatmeal, Apple Pie) with a few off the wall flavors like our Bacon & Bourbon cookie with dark chocolate and maple syrup. Our flavors aren’t the only unique aspect about our niche bakery. We also deliver fresh, made to order cookies and ice cold milk until 3am, locally. The only thing we care about as much as the quality of our Appalachia Cookie Company cookies are the communities that we are fortunate enough to call home. 30-Thirty Project is our labor of love, a subscription based shipping package that allows us to donate 30lbs of food per month per subscription to families in need.

It all began in 2012, while living in a small college apartment above a bar in the beautiful mountains of NC. As a student at Appalachian State University the company’s founder, David Holloman, saw a need for an alternative to the traditional late night pizza and sandwiches.  While he knew he wasn’t the first to offer late night dessert delivery, and he certainly wasn’t the first to person to bake a cookie, it was his goal to make the absolute best cookies people had ever eaten. With that goal in mind he bought a mixer and began making a batch of what would come to be… some of the worst cookies anyone had ever tasted. That’s right, Appalachia Cookie Company made a lot of really bad cookies before we started making the incredible treats we have today. After a year of late nights, early mornings, burnt cookies, oven fires, final exams, capstones and lots of trial and error, the cookies were ready.

Getting Started

A small, out-of-the-way, storefront in a subdivided warehouse was the company’s first storefront. The elegant sign that first adorned the future home of the best cookies on earth was made of cardboard and had “COOKIES” scribbled in sharpie with an arrow pointing to the front door. It was the kind of place you could walk in and stand next to the oven while your cookies baked. The store also had a bunch of the previous business owner’s equipment in the front of the store. It ALSO was the kind of place that quickly lead to the local Sheriff wanting to know what we were “really doing until 3AM.”

Convincing the Masses

Well, we quickly made a believer out of the Sheriff’s department. Within the first year we had such a large demand that we had customers from all over the country asking for our confectionary delights. We began our shipping program just over a year after the company opened and  within three months we had shipped Appalachia Cookie Company cookies as far as California, Hawaii and even Ireland. The company was quickly outgrowing its space and it was time for a change. After almost a year of searching for a location that would fit the company’s needs, we found the perfect spot.

Appalachia Cookie Company had the opportunity to return to where it all began, after nearly three years of being in business. The company’s new home would be one of the three retail spaces (below the apartment and next to the bar) where the original recipes were created. You can’t walk up to the ovens any more but the cookies are still the same, made from scratch and baked to order.

We’re growing!

It is our goal to continue to grow to other cities and spread our delicious cookies across the country for everyone to enjoy.

It is Appalachia Cookie Company’s goal not only to bake and deliver a high quality product to our customers but also to better the community and environment in which we operate. A healthy community means a healthy business. We hope that you will join us in this goal and not only become our customer but also our friend.