BUSINESS FEATURE
BY TAYLOR CRIPE
Deep-dish cookie cake
COURTESY ASHLEY CAMERON
SUGAR RUSH
Bakery Love & Cookies o ers its customers a variety of treats to enjoy.
Cookies
Ashley Cameron, owner of Love & Cookies, said baking always brings her joy.
This display features some of the community favorites, including the chocolate chip cookie Charlie Cash, named after Cameron’s son.
• Charlie Cash: chocolate chip chunks • Uncle TK: Oreo cookie pieces • Hank : M&M pieces
TAYLOR CRIPE COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
TAYLOR CRIPE COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Love & Cookies Small shop dominates at H E B’s Quest for Texas Best A shley Cameron, a self-described “cookie- preneur,” said baking has always brought her joy.
Other treats
• Deep-dish cookie cakes • Cinnamon rolls • Gluten-free cookies • Specialty cookies and avors • Frozen cookie dough
top spot in the H E B Quest for Texas Best small-busi- ness competition. Love & Cookies then won rst place Aug. 24 in Dallas and received $20,000, becoming the rst Central Texas business to win the Quest for Texas Best competition. “We believe in our son, and our story and our product, so to have a company like H E B believe in us as well is just unbelievable,” Cameron said. All of the store’s gourmet cookies are named after her children, or close friends and family who supported her while her son Charlie Cash was in the hospital. Named after her son, one of the community favorites is a large chocolate chip cookie with a Hershey’s chocolate bar in the center. Cameron said she developed the idea of frozen cookie dough because people were asking for it. Starting in March, the product will be sold in H E B stores in the following avors: M&M, triple chocolate, chocolate chip and gluten-free chocolate chip.
COURTESY ASHLEY CAMERON
Cameron, who is a registered nurse, previously worked at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston where she delivered babies. After having three children of her own in three years, Cameron decided to become a stay-at-home mom. In 2019, her oldest son developed Kawasaki disease, a rare, potentially deadly disease that causes the immune system to attack blood vessels. “Once he came home from the hospital, I would have taken him to Disney World that same day had he asked me,” Cameron said. “Instead he said, ‘I want to bake cookies with mommy.’” From there, Cameron started baking at home with her family and opened her own retail location under the name Love & Cookies in October 2021. Cameron’s success with her business, including a nearly 80% retention rate of customers, earned her a
Love & Cookies 1200 Lakeway Drive, Ste. 3, Lakeway 512-520-5430 www.cookiesilove.com Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., closed Sun.
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