our story

Krissy has been decorating cookies since she was 15 and for decades has enjoyed blessing our family with beautiful creations.  When her niece (Lily) was diagnosed with multiple life-threatening food allergies as a baby, she had to process the fact that added to the long list of foods Lily could not safely consume and enjoy were the beautiful and delicious cookies that had become a holiday, birthday, and special-event staple.  Her first thought was “no more cookies” because the fact that Lily couldn’t enjoy them took the joy out of making them. She didn’t want to create an environment where the cookies would have to be hidden from Lily.  

But a true baker has to bake, and as the months passed she pondered if there was a way to make her cookies with ingredients Lily could tolerate. Could she realistically take a recipe with two pounds of butter, eggs, wheat flour, and royal icing and convert it to butter-less, egg-less, and wheat-less cookies?  And IF she did, and IF it tasted good, WHAT would they look like? (Any cookie artist out there will understand the challenge of creating detail using a glazed icing instead of royal icing).  It was a two-part challenge: she had to nail the taste AND the look.  One year later, Krissy presented an ecstatic Lily with custom-made, allergen-friendly Minnie Mouse themed cookies on her 2nd birthday.  Fast forward three more years and she was confident enough to start making them for other “Lilys” who deserved something safe, delicious, and beautifully tailor-made with the utmost care, just for them!