All the Whos in Who-ville will celebrate with treats, and who knows – maybe the Grinch will join in at an upcoming holiday event.
Hollynd Seek and Heather Ray are hosting their second annual Cookies and Hot Chocolate Bomb Drive Up from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 18 at 613 Kershaw Dr., North Augusta. Some of the proceeds from the event will go toward the non-profit, A Few Friendly Mamas.
Hot chocolate bombs, cake pops, cupcakes, decorated Christmas cookies, paint your own cookie sets, do-it-yourself cookie decorating sets and cookie sandwiches will be for sale.
Seek, the owner of Mrs. Seek’s Sweet Treats, LLC, is a home baker and stay-at-home mom of one. She bakes treats in her home kitchen. Ray is owner of Sweet Cheeks Sugar Shoppe and is a home-based baker as well who works a full-time job as a benefits integration analyst for Paylocity. Both have a passion for baking and concocting sweet beverages.
With all those cookies around, Santa Claus definitely plans to show up as will the Grinch. They both will be available for participants to take photos of with their own devices.
There will also be Christmas decorations at the location as well as Christmas music to enjoy.
“In addition, there are plenty of lights to drive through the neighborhood to see afterwards,” Ray said.
The paint-your-own cookie comes in snow-globe and ornament varieties. Seek says that even the paint for those particular cookie sets is edible – much like the special room in Willy Wonka’s factory. The Cindy Lou Whos who attend with their parents and others will probably enjoy painting the cookies as a craft.
Also, the cocoa bombs will truly be “the bomb,” Seek said. In addition to the standard milk chocolate flavored cocoa bombs, they will have white chocolate, Andes mint and white chocolate peppermint flavors.
The chocolate chip cookie sandwiches and the cupcakes are enormous. Some come frosting-filled so that even the jolly, chubby old elf himself may not have room for everything. But there is always room for one more cake pop to go on the sleigh.
“We started our cookies and hot chocolate bomb event last year for a way people could get out of the house during the pandemic and be able to socially distance but still get the feeling of holiday cheer,” Seek said.
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The event was a success.
“We sold out by five o’clock. And this year, we plan to make double of what we did last year. We decided to make it an annual event,” Ray said.
Their baked goods will benefit a group called A Few Friendly Mamas, which started out as a mom’s group, but grew a charitable arm, turning into an organization helping moms in need. It is a registered charity through South Carolina. Initially, the group started with diapers and formula, but the needs the group met grew.
“We did a huge fundraiser for one of our members’ family whose three-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia last year,” Seek said, who also helps run the charity. “For the holidays, we provide Christmas to families who are nominated with medical or financial stress. This year, we have three families we are taking care of: a mom has stage 4 colon cancer and three young children; a mom has bone cancer with one young child; and finally, a mom with kidney disease and four young children,” Seek added.
A Few Friendly Mamas has also provided 11 turkeys to needy families for holiday meals.
Donations will also be accepted at the event.
Ron Baxley Jr. is a correspondent for The Augusta Press.
