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Baker mom Amanda Nokes creates made-to-order cookies in sophisticated combos. Named after her kids and made from locally sourced ingredients, the creations are serious goody-goodies. Liddy Diddy is the perfect pick-me-up with chocolate-covered coffee beans and toffee chips — it’s just like your favorite coffeehouse creation, only baked.
“Cookies have become sophisticated — they’re not just for kids any more.” If you needed permission to eat more cookies, Amanda Nokes of Manderin Cookie Company may just have granted it — provided of course that you are indulging in her freshly-baked and delivered traditional cookies with a twist. A self-professed “food junkie,” Amanda creates recipes in her head that combine the perfect balance of sweet and salty flavors and textures. She adds caramel to the peanut butter cookie and dried cherries to the oatmeal raisin cookie. Her next cookie creation tentatively called “Bean’s Kitchen Sink Cookie” will combine goldfish crackers with vanilla Oreo cookies, butterscotch chips and malted milk balls. She says, “I love desserts and want to find new ways to deliver them to my thighs.”
While some biological clocks are ticking fast, yours is more like a kitchen timer set for fresh-baked cookies, not buns in the oven. Let newcomer Manderin Cookie Company make a delivery. Baker moms Amanda Nokes and Erin Brannan (Manderin is a mix of their names) create made-to-order cookies in sophisticated combos. Named after their kids and made from locally sourced ingredients, the creations are serious goody-goodies: Crazy Watson is a chocolate chip-toffee-coconut mix; the oatmeal raisin Sweet Chapel comes loaded with cherries; and the obvious golden child, Bean’s Bacon Bar, joins peanut butter, bacon, chili, ganache, and caramel atop a brownie base. Easy now, just wait your turn. And no pushing.
Manderin Cookie Co.: A custom-order cookie bakery specializing in decadent cookies and bars. Bacon may have jumped the shark, but just try telling that to devotees of the Bean's Bacon Bar (a heart-attack inducing bar of deliciousness comprised of layers of chocolate, peanut butter, cayenne pepper, caramel, and bacon). They're working on placing the product in retail locations; in the meantime, they can be ordered online at manderincookieco.com.
When the chips are down. When Amanda Nokes was laid off from Biznik, a business networking company, she couldn’t find another job. So she created one. An avid baker, Nokes phoned a friend, Erin Brannan, a chef, and in April they started Manderin Cookie Company. (The name is a blend of Amanda and Erin.) It was very seat-of-the-Seven jeans. Nokes and Brannan named the cookies after their kids and sought the skills of friend and family. “We are two single moms who are totally broke and we’ve just been fudging it,” Nokes said. And Facebooking it. Through Brannan’s Facebook page, Manderin connected to a buyer for Whole Foods, who set up a tasting. Whole Foods is interested in carrying the cookies now, along with Thriftway, Costco, and local hotels, Nokes said. The web site averages ten to fifteen orders a week, which Nokes and Brannan bake in a Renton commercial kitchen. “We are desperately looking for an investor now because we’ve blown up so quickly,” she said. The onetime real estate agent learned from watching her former colleagues. “The agents who keep taking courses and other courses, because they’re too afraid to just jump in and start-- those are the ones who fail,” Nokes said. Her advice to would-entrepreneurs: “Quit over-thinking and just do it.”
One look at the pictures on the Manderin Cookie Companysite and you'll be ready to place an order! Mouthwatering! One of the coowners is an old pal of mine from high school, Amanda Nokes, who I've been in touch with recently through the miracle of Facebook. Amanda and I spent our senior year together glued at the hip and I'll tell you that to this day, no one can throw a party like Amanda. (I recall stopping by her house one morning after an October party to find a rather obtrusive Halloween display in her living room made from pilfered items that included a pile of hay and a construction sign that was still flashing...but I digress.) You can imagine my delight when I saw that she had started this cookie company. They are an internet-based bakery in Seattle and will ship anywhere in the United States!