Behind the Scenes: Icing Smiles Cookie Club

Today we are excited to share more information about our very own Icing Smiles Cookie Club.

In November 2011, an Icing Smiles Blog ran about a family with three medical children who had epilepsy in addition to other medical issues. The three children all had seizures and broke their wrists, within the span of a week! This made volunteer Deni K. think about all the daily issues these medical families deal with in addition to the stresses of major medical challenges for these kids.

She sent the first few batches of cookies out herself. Knowing there were many bakers who were waiting for their Call to Action, many who could create beautiful sugar cookies, and the thought that these medical families needed a little something, the idea of the Cookie Club emerged.

Seven years later we have been able to ship many thousands of cookies across the country to families for all different reasons and have over a thousand Cookie Angels!

So, what does our Cookie Club Admin Staff do? First, they ask our admin volunteers and state reps for referrals for cookie requests and who we think would like to receive a dozen cookies in the mail? Sometimes they are a pick me up because treatment is going well, or treatment is going amazing! They have also sent “in remembrance of you” cookies or even “thinking of you cookies.”

Whatever the reason, our Cookie Club volunteers love receiving requests and filling orders and because they are shipped, we aren’t limited by state! YAY! We have bigger boundaries. Our cookies come as a surprise to the family and it’s amazing how many times we’ve heard, “This is exactly what we needed today. How did you know?”

We always love having new Cookie Sugar Angels and we love referrals! So if you would like to volunteer to be a Cookie Club Sugar Angel fill out our volunteer form here.