A teenage girl from Maine is using her love of baking chocolate chip cookies to help raise money for charity."It's just a good idea and with COVID happing and stuff. There's a lot of people who need money right now,” Maggie Cook said.Cook, who is a freshman at Bonny Eagle High School, created Cookie Love 207. She spends much of her at-home time in the kitchen baking nine-inch chocolate chip cookies, which she offers in exchange for a donation.“I thought it would only be my mom's Facebook friends, or whatever, but they kept sharing our page and stuff. A lot of people started to donate,” Cook said.Through Facebook, Cook takes individual orders. She delivered her first batch of nearly five-dozen cookies in early February through a drive-thru at a local church.She asked people to donate whatever they can and raised $1,000 for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital."When people are picking up their cookies, they might donate even more. We had that happen to us. We got $100 from one lady,” Cook said.She is raising money while having fun with her family.“It's good because my parents are always there helping me, and we have like music playing and it's fun because we're just making cookies,” Cook said.Cook said she plans to continue baking her cookies until at least spring when she hopes to get back to after-school sports.She said she is proud to have spent the winter spreading love and helping her community with her cookies.“It feels good that I did something to help people this winter,” Cook said.She is preparing a second batch of cookies that will be delivered on Sunday. She can’t take any more orders but hopes to offer a third batch in March through her Facebook page.
A teenage girl from Maine is using her love of baking chocolate chip cookies to help raise money for charity.
"It's just a good idea and with COVID happing and stuff. There's a lot of people who need money right now,” Maggie Cook said.
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Cook, who is a freshman at Bonny Eagle High School, created Cookie Love 207. She spends much of her at-home time in the kitchen baking nine-inch chocolate chip cookies, which she offers in exchange for a donation.
“I thought it would only be my mom's Facebook friends, or whatever, but they kept sharing our page and stuff. A lot of people started to donate,” Cook said.
Through Facebook, Cook takes individual orders. She delivered her first batch of nearly five-dozen cookies in early February through a drive-thru at a local church.
She asked people to donate whatever they can and raised $1,000 for the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.
"When people are picking up their cookies, they might donate even more. We had that happen to us. We got $100 from one lady,” Cook said.
She is raising money while having fun with her family.
“It's good because my parents are always there helping me, and we have like music playing and it's fun because we're just making cookies,” Cook said.
Cook said she plans to continue baking her cookies until at least spring when she hopes to get back to after-school sports.
She said she is proud to have spent the winter spreading love and helping her community with her cookies.
“It feels good that I did something to help people this winter,” Cook said.
She is preparing a second batch of cookies that will be delivered on Sunday. She can’t take any more orders but hopes to offer a third batch in March through her Facebook page.
February 27, 2021 at 07:26AM
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