The holiday season is here and that means cookies! But if baking is not your jam, there’s a woman-owned, small business in West Chester that has you covered, with unique shortbreads.
In 2016, then stay-at-home mom Loraine Houston started baking up her second act, using lots of butter, sugar and flour.
She named her small-batch shortbread brand Blake’s Mother’s Cookies.
Houston says her youngest son, Blake, got a summer job working at a farm market and she would send her homemade shortbread cookies with his lunch.
Word got out about the cookies.
“Everybody loves them,” says Houston, owner of Blake’s Mother’s Cookies. “They’re so buttery.”
She makes six flavors.
“The classic is the basic shortbread flavor, and it’s used for all the rest of them,” says Houston.
She adds flavor enhancements to the classic shortbread mix for the other varieties, which includes herbs and flowers, like lavender.
“All the flavors are very subtle,” she says.
For the lemon shortbread, she adds lemon oil. Rosemary was the original flavor.
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