• A Facebook post of homemade chocolate chip cookies leads to a bake-off between friends.
• The proposed bake-off judges were front liners who could use a sweet-pick-me-up.
• From two people, it has now become a group called Cookies for Caregivers that has now given more than 15,100 baked goods.

The global fight against the coronavirus pandemic has brought on tremendous stress, anxiety, and even loss of lives to our front liners in the community.  Cookies would definitely help bring a smile to their faces.

As Cookies for Caregivers co-founder Jeremy Uhrich said, “We just wanted to let these people know that we care about you, we recognize you and we aren’t forgetting about what you’re doing. This is just our small way of saying thank you and showing gratitude for what you have been doing and continue to do throughout the pandemic.”

The sweet endeavor that started out as a cookie bake-off between Uhrich and Scott McKenzie is now a Facebook group called Cookies for Caregivers. It is made up of volunteers that has risen into more than 100 bakers who have baked and delivered more than 15,100 snickerdoodles, cakes, sugar cookies, and more to essential workers at local hospitals, fire departments, grocery stores, and more since April.

The group not only has adult volunteers but children as well like Uhrich’s sons Finley and Max.

Uhrich says, “It’s a good chance to teach the kids about what we’re experiencing and why we’re doing this, why it’s important to show gratitude to the people in our community who have to be brave, get up, go to work and battle this virus every day.”

And the sweetness is spreading as Jeremey’s father, Jerry, started his own group in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

He says, “It’s been a great way to keep my mind off the pandemic and do something for others. Everybody likes a cookie and everybody likes a friend!”

Who would have thought that when Uhrich first saw his friend Scott Mackenzie showing off his homemade chocolate chip cookies and challenging him to a bake-off and Mackenzie’s proposal to have frontline heroes as judges would lead to this?

Now, the lucky recipients of the sweet pick-me-ups are culled from a list of workers that the pair and the group nominate. Once the targets are decided on, the cookies are then dropped at Uhrich’s house to be delivered in large containers at the businesses.

Uhrich says, “We’ve seen a lot of smiles and tears during deliveries, people are so appreciative. 

He then sums up the group’s sweet deed with: “There aren’t enough people to thank. Kindness doesn’t have an expiration date.”

Source: PEOPLE