More than milk and cookies…
Dear Friends,
In 1983, I made my first cookie mold. I was young (relatively, anyway), and I had high aspirations. At the time, I said that I wanted to “make cookies that look as good as they taste”, and I wanted to “change the way America bakes cookies”. Talk about chutzpa! The funny thing, though, is that I have somehow gotten what I asked for. Cookies made from Brown Bag molds are tasty, and they are pretty, elegant, whimsical, silly, playful and best of all, personal. Brown Bag Cookies are not your every-day store-boughts. Many thousands of people have changed their baking habits to get in on the fun. 
Now I want something more… I want to use cookies to make a difference in the world.
Last year, I designed just one new mold, “Our House”. I donated my profits from the sales of this mold to Habitat For Humanity for Gulf Coast reconstruction. It will take many years, lots of money, and unbelievable commitment and courage to put things back together after Katrina. It feels great with your help to be part of the effort. (There are still some available, by the way, if you would like one. See below.)
Now, for 2008, I have designed a very special new cookie mold to benefit Heifer International. This wonderful organization was founded in 1944 with the mission of ending hunger and poverty while caring for the earth. Rather than just supplying food, Heifer International gives families in need livestock and training in sustainable environmentally sound agriculture. Each family is then required to “pass it on”, by giving one or more offspring from their family’s Heifer animal to another family. And on it goes. This is a long term solution that fosters dignity and self reliance.
We can be part of the solution. When you buy one of the special Heifer and Friends cookie molds, Brown Bag will donate $12.00 from the sale of each mold sold over this site to Heifer International. This durable high-fired mold depicts a cow and three other friendly animals all together. Each comes with a recipe and instruction booklet tied on with a real satin ribbon, and with a letter about the mold’s significance.
 The molds cost $19.95 each, are made in America and are available only until December 31, 2008. To purchase one right from this site, click on the Heifer and Friends tab on the left side bar.
The goal is to make a difference in as many lives as possible, family by family, cookie by cookie, all of us together.
Very best wishes,
Lucy |
