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Most anyone would agree that a homemade cookie can bring comfort. That's why volunteer bakers near the Naval Academy in Annapolis have spent 25 years baking chocolate chip treats for the sailors, and earning money to help others in the process. Reed Galin gives us their recipe for success. |
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It’s heaven for chocoholics.
Nat/Volunteers mix dough: “Chocolate chips. You have to have the
chocolate chips.”
Members of
Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis, Maryland have
baked millions of chocolate chip cookies--a treat midshipmen at the
nearby U.S. Naval Academy hunger for.
Rachel Heisman/Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “I have a lot of
midshipmen friends, and they’re always excited to get them. And I
deliver most days, so they’re always like, ‘Ooh, cookies, do we have
any?’”
Calvary’s cookie factory takes orders over the internet from parents and
friends of the midshipmen.
Gordon Duvall/Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “It is a lot of
cookies. You don’t want to eat any for several days after you’ve made
22,000 cookies.”
Volunteers from the church “chip in” one Saturday a month.
Joan Moored/ Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “My favorite part
is to clean up, because you can lick the dough.”
Quality control is strict.
Nat/Volunteer tastes cookie: “Ummmm, good.”
Broken cookies are up for grabs.
Lon Slepicka/Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “Today, we’ll make
probably around 8,000 or so. And, I haven’t eaten them all. That’s the
good thing.”
But there’s a serious side to baking all these chocolate chip cookies.
The money goes for youth mission trips to help others.
John Phillips/Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “We go all
around. I’ve been to Pennsylvania, New York. Louisiana. We went last
year to help the Katrina victims.”
Arden Robbins/Member, Calvary United Methodist Church: “I see more
people who need help than me. I’m caring more about others.”
This is the 25th year for the cookie factory. And church members say
they plan to carry on the tasty tradition.
TAG:
The cookies cost $3.50 per dozen, and that includes delivery.
They can be ordered from the
church’s website or you can call
410-268-6035.