Come On, Get Down With the Thiccness

On your average kitchen scale, each creation by Kind Cookie Company officially weighs in as a heckin’ chonker — up to 10 ounces, depending on the recipe. The box below? Around 4 pounds, or a half-gallon of milk.

Featuring everything from full-sized Oreos to apple pie filling, the cookies are the work of Erin Vandre, a longtime baker who adapted the base from her mother’s recipe. “I was trying to make it bigger and thicker, and I would just take anything that was in my cabinet and try to throw as much fattening stuff as possible inside of it,” she says.

A former fitness competitor, Erin would sell two-handed cookies as cheat meals at competitions, or give them away. But when her now-husband, Nic, tried one, he told Erin it was the “comfort cookie” the world needed. 

Three months ago, the newly married Pinehurst couple decided to take the concept as far as they could, paired with a namesake mission of spreading kindness by giving a portion of proceeds back to the community. While currently looking for a brick-and-mortar, Nic and Erin ship cookies all over the country and offer local pickups at TruFit gym in Southern Pines. 

• Want to try your own? Cookies are $5 each. Order online.
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 Bonus: Want to hear Erin and Nic tell their story? Listen to the latest episode of The Sway podcast on your favorite streaming service, or get it from our website.