“Cookies With a Cause”
March 2nd, 2007 by Eric
If you’ve recently flown on JetBlue for more than an hour-long flight, then you’ve probably been given a small bag of Immaculate Baking Company’s Chocobilly’s Chocolate Chuck cookies. If you’re like me you were a little skeptical of their taste when you saw that they were made with 70% organic ingredients, wheat flour, cane sugar, etc. I mean, healthy cookies? After that first bite though, you were hooked. But there’s more to the story than their taste.
Twelve years ago Scott Blackwell started Immaculate Baking Company out of his garage in Flat Rock, North Carolina with a very specific goal in mind:
To create top-quality baked goods with fun and unique combinations, to celebrate the creativity of folk art, and to somehow give back.
So Scott decided to combine his unique baking ability with his true passion, folk art. In 1999 he and many of his friends and fellow folk art collectors founded the Folk Artist’s Foundation. The goal was to build a folk art museum next to the bakery (he has since moved out of the garage) that would:
function as a gallery for the massive FAF art collection and an artist-in-residence space complete with a classroom for creative workshops
But they needed to find a way to “get the cookie rolling” for the museum. Solution? How ‘bout baking the world’s biggest cookie? Immaculate baked a Chocobilly’s chocolate chip cookie that is 102 feet in diameter and weighs 40,000 pounds. That’s four fully-grown elephants worth of delicious organic sweetness as long as a Boeing 737. How much did they raise?
(By selling) the slices in a special commemorative box for $10 each (they) raised nearly $20,000 towards the museum fund that day!
So if you want to support the North Carolina Small Manufacturer of the Year and the Folk Artist’s Foundation, you can order here (we recommend the Route 11 Potato Chip Cookies). If you’re low-carb’n it you can donate directly to the FAF. Or check and see if there is an event to your area. Any way you bake it you’re supporting a great small business and a great and underappreciated art form. It’s a scrumptious win-win.
Thanks to this sweet-toothed picture-taker.
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