Baseball cookies celebrate new season of game

By NANCY ANDERSON
SCRIPPS HOWARD
Celebrate the new baseball season with a tin of Classic Baseball Shortbread, made especially for fans from an old family recipe at the Cooperstown Cookie Co. in New York.
The flat, baseball-look-alike treats come in two sizes, "bunt" and "baseball," and four flavors: Classic Shortbread, Mudville Mudball Chocolate Chip, All Star Almond and Boys of Summer Lemon. The baseball look-a-likes are sure to delight the little fan whose baseball glove is welded to his or her wrist. The cookies were unveiled in October 2004 by Pati Grady, founder and president of the company and mother of five, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame's World Series Gala. The product's been a home run ever since.
"I've been a baker all my life. One day I said to my husband, 'Why hasn't anyone done baseball cookies?' So I got out my shortbread recipe and cut the first ones with a glass," she recalls.
With encouragement from the Hall of Fame, and after finding a bakery to make the cookies by hand and a tinsmith to design cutters, the business was launched.
Made with quality ingredients and no preservatives, a large tin (a dozen cookies) is 18.99 and a small (a half dozen) is 11.99, plus 8.95 shipping.
Consider also Classic Chocolate Baseball Caps, available through mid-May. To order, call (607) 435-5789 or visit www.cooperstowncookiecompany.com.
You can "catch" the company on Food Network's "Unwrapped" show May 14.