Eating Cookies Will Make You A Better Person

Sometimes changing the world is as easy as eating a cookie. As a chocolate-chip-a-holic and art lover, I was delighted to see a new brand of cookie dough in the refrigerator section of my grocery store. Better Bakes™ Cookies with a Cause are all natural and organic, plus the wrapper raved about all of the philanthropy the product supports. At last, my vice had the necessary rationalization for buying it printed right on the packaging. Genius! I did a little digging and found out that Immaculate Baking, the company that makes Better Bakes, has always supported creativity and the arts. Early in the company's history they founded the Folk Artists Foundation, which aids artists by providing them with materials, helping them find a place to live and connecting them with museums and galleries. So every time one of us buys cookies, an artist gets a new paintbrush. Or toothbrush. Whichever she needs more, I guess. The team also started something called the Soul Food Fund to complement the Folk Arts Foundation and encourage all kinds of creativity. They go around baking ten-foot cookies to raise money and fund "art-reach" programs. That's my kind of bake sale! Best of all (from a snacker's perspective) the cookies are delicious. Most store bought cookie dough is bad tasting and bad for you, chock full of preservatives and palm oil and artificial colors. Better Bakes come in five yummy flavors (Chocolate Chunk, Vanilla Sugar, Triple Chocolate Chunk, Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Raisin) and use only organic and natural ingredients. You don't realize how weirdly metallic Nestle's cookie dough taste until you do a side by side comparison, which I highly recommend on a cold, rainy day. Buying these cookies might not make you a better person, but they will definitely make you feel better. And you get to help art and creativity continue to grow in the world. What more can you ask from a baked treat?