Ribbon Cutting Welcomes Mom's Cookie Bar To Doylestown

DOYLESTOWN BOROUGH, Pa. ? A line of strollers stretched down the sidewalk along North Main Street Saturday morning headed toward Doylestown?s newest sweet spot.

A few minutes earlier, Lindsay Baker joined by her children, Jack, Avery and Bristol, officially cut the ribbon on Mom?s Cookie Bar located inside the Hart Building on North Main Street.

?We?re really excited to be here,? Baker told a crowd of people gathered on the sidewalk in front of her new business. ?I just want to bake cookies and be happy,? she said. ?And that?s what I am doing.?

Flanked by giant balloon ice cream cones strategically positioned on either side of the doorway, Baker raised a champagne toast to her new store and offered cookie samples to the crowd made up mostly of young parents and children.

?This has been a labor of love for the past six months,? she said. ?Thank you to my kids for putting up with me. I also want to thank the community for making my first two weeks a success and for all the smiles. The kids and the babies that have come in, it?s just really been amazing.?

Joining Baker and her kids on the porch of the borough?s newest business was Dr. Vail P. Garvin, president and CEO of the Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce, who was there to officially welcome Mom?s Cookie Bar to Doylestown.

?This opening symbolizes the vibrancy of Doylestown, the vibrancy of Bucks County,? said Garvin. ?And it makes me so proud of her - a young mother with three children opening up a business. It?s so awesome.

?All the businesses in Doylestown are unique and that?s what brings the vibrancy. Just walking around Doylestown is an experience in and of itself. So viva la Doylestown, viva la Bucks County,? she said.

Baker, who grew up in Doylestown and is a Central Bucks graduate, is excited to now be part of that vibrancy.

?I feel so blessed and so grateful to be a part of this community and to open a spot where everyone can come and feel welcome and at home,? said Baker.

?That?s important to me. I want this to be a place where everyone feels loved,? she said. ?And if you don?t have a mom or grandma at home baking for you come here and we will take care of you and everybody will be like family.?

Mom?s Cookie Bar features more than 65 different flavors of home-baked stuffed and regular cookie bars that she will be rotating throughout the year.

?We also have a draft system that we developed so we have chocolate milk on tap. We also have nitro cold brewed coffee from ?Backyard Beans,? a local brewer in Lansdale. And we are making our own homemade sodas. We have root beer and orange on tap right now.?

In addition, Mom?s serves soft-served homemade ice cream offering vanilla and a featured flavor of the week.

?With that we make milk shakes and Avalanches, which is kind of like a Blizzard, that can be customized with various candies. I also chop up cookie bars that can be added to the Avalanches or be blended down into milk shakes, which tastes really awesome.?

In addition to sweetening up the town, she?s also hoping everyone will leave with a delicious memory.

?I have had a life long love of baking and absolutely love seeing people smile after they try something that I've made,? says Baker. ?I've been asked many times what my secret ingredient is and the answer is always, ?It was baked with love.??