Take time to cookie up!

Chocolate snicker-doodle, walnut raisin oatmeal, rosemary cornmeal shortbread, peanut crunch!

You know you want one!

Well, actually, these cookies are so good they remind me of the famous copy line “betcha can’t eat just one!”

And let me be honest here. This post is a bald-faced ad for a friend of ours in Dallas who has taken up his newest inspiration as a baker and turned it into a business. His name is Paul and the company is Wackym’s Kitchen. He only makes the best cookies in the world, from original recipes perfected after much experimentation and taste testing. Ever had a margerita cookie? Yum. See many more photos and info on his new web site: http://www.wackymskitchen.com

You know the word ’scrumptious’? That describes Paul’s web site and his products. You can almost smell the hot cookies now, coming out of the oven. You know the old realtor trick of baking some chocolate cookies in the oven when showing a house for sale, right? Because that smell makes a house feel like home, that’s why.

But wait, there’s more! You can get’em in gift packaging!

How cool are these? I’d say very cool. Unless they’re still warm. That’s hot!

But of course Paul doesn’t just bake original, tasty and healthy cookies. In earlier careers he has been a women’s fashion designer, a furniture buyer for a major department store chain when he traveled the world, and a gift basket designer for Nieman Marcus— so you know he’s got good taste. (You should see his house– he’s a talented interior decorator/designer, as well.) So now you can enjoy what he likes– great cookies!

Look out Mrs. Fields and Famous Amos!

Yes, I’ve eaten Mrs. Fields cookies and I have a signed cookie sack by Famous Amos (I interviewed him and put him on TV, way back when) after a friend and I ate them all… but, there’s one little problem with those brands now. But, you say, those cookies are legendary, they’ve sold billions, those cookie-prenuers are rich and retired, what could be wrong with those? Duh! By the time you get your lips around them they’re not fresh! They were made by machine, packaged, sat in a warehouse for a while, put on a truck or train, sent a great distance in all kinds of weather, unloaded into the back of a giant supermarket and then finally put on the shelf, where a few weeks later you come along and see them and say, looking at the Photoshopped photo of a specially made cookie, hmmm, those look good!, and then you take them home and put them in the refrigerator and a couple of days later get your ‘cookie jones’ activated, make your cup of hot cocoa and sit down with… an elderly, well-traveled, cold, hard, tired cookie. What is the most important quality of a cookie? It’s gotta be fresh.

If you’re lucky enough to live in the Dallas area… and almost 6 million people are (can that be correct, jeez!?) you can currently find Paul’s cookies in 5 locations, sitting there fresh, young and beautiful, just waiting to be taken home. Actually, many people eat them right there on the spot or munch on one in the car. So, check out Paul’s web site. If you live somewhere else like San Francisco or London or Tribeca or some hipster enclave where you think they have good cookies, I think you can order a gift package from Wackymskitchen.com and suddenly be much more popular with your friends, if you can share.

Just remember ‘wacky ms kitchen’ and cookies. How hard is that? Paul’s cookies, which are easy to eat, yummy and can’t be forgotten are available to be shipped fresh anywhere. And soon the web site will accept direct payment.

Okay, I’m worn out now. I haven’t written that much ad copy in years. I think I’ll have a cookie with my morning coffee!  Oh, Paul? Do you have any ginger cookies…? Those are my favorites! My lovely bride can get her own flavor. I’m having mine with Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

And Paul’s message to my blog readers? “Life is sweet. Eat great treats!”

UPDATE from Paul, the baker-man’s Facebook page!

“Nancy Nichols of D Magizine stopped by for some cookies Sunday; I love you fans, thankyou!”

http://sidedish.dmagazine.com/2009/06/29/dallas-farmers-market-the-baker-man-paul-wackym/