Carpe Cookie Company
With the holiday season in full swing everyone is
craving yummy sweets. Here at Gypsies and Debutantes we love classic chocolate chip cookies. And we know that homemade is significantly better than
store bought, especially if they happen to be cookies. Carpe Cookie Company is homemade cookies. Baker Michele
Bissonnette and brains Lisa Kimball literally 'seize the cookie'. The company has
a wide range of cookies from your classic chocolate chip to a complex Bunny
Slipper, which is a sugar cookie dipped in creamy dark chocolate with coconut
shavings and a mounds bar baked in the middle. Each cookie measures a ’healthy’
four inches and the menu boasts thirty delicious cookie variations. Cookies can
come in bags of two to six or on platters of two-dozen in any combination you
desire.
Hailing from the South Shore, Bissonnette
has been making cookies for years, perfecting the recipe to what it is today. She
and Kimball started the company together in 1999 out of a house kitchen. Using
her daughters and family friends as guniea pigs for each new recipe, most
cookies have a story. Heather’s Hope Cookie is the most popular story. Heather, the
namesake of the cookie claims this particular dessert helped her through her
cancer treatment. Heather
was a family friend who was feeling blue about going through chemo treatment for
lung cancer. Bissonnette sent her cookies and Heather called to say thank you
and was adamant about being a 'taste taster' for new and upcoming Carpe Cookies. Her
favorite cookies were oatmeal so Bissonnette started experimenting with dried
fruits and gourmet tail mixes. At this point Heather was in full chemo
treatment and found that half an oatmeal cookie before her
treatment settled her stomach. She called them Chemo Cookies. Carpe Cookie
calls them Heather’s Hope and any profit made off this cookie goes directly to
lung caner research.
“We are not a nut free kitchen… in more
ways than one...” is the warning given to cookie eaters by Bissonnette and
Kimball. This quirky little business is still trying to find its feet. Because
Carpe Cookie is situated in a home kitchen the company is not yet open for
private orders. Keep your eyes and ears open though, The Carpe Cookie Company should be on it's feet soon.
*Photos curtesy of Carpe Cookie Company.
