One of Ballard’s sweetest establishments is baking cookies for Seattle healthcare workers.
In a campaign known as Project Cookie, Hot Cakes is baking cookies for hospitals all over the city. The goal of Project Cookie is to deliver 1,000 cookies to one hospital per day, with a goal of 5,000 per week. Monday’s 1,000-cookie delivery went to Swedish Ballard.
Hot Cakes owner Autumn Martin says it’s time to, “offer our resources to support the front-line angels of this pandemic.” Even though her shop on Ballard Ave is closed, Project Cookie has allowed her to hire back two employees, their pastry chef, and manager of their Capitol Hill shop to make cookie dough, bake, pack and deliver the cookies to hospitals.
Martin’s cookies are a recipe from her friend Donna—they’re vegan, paleo, sweetened with maple syrup, and loaded with pecans. They call it the Thank You Cookie, and the whole production is being paid for through donations.
“My two biggest heart-breaks are my staff not having enough money to live off of, and the humans that are putting themselves at risk staffing our hospitals, working day in and day out in wild conditions,” Martin writes on the Project Cookie website.
She’s broken down those costs on the Project Cookie website; click here if you want to donate.
Photo: Hot Cakes on Facebook
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