Protest Cookies
Female Bakers Unleash "Cookie Grab 2017" to Raise Money for Planned Parenthood
Proceeds from the kick-ass cookie boxes, loaded with goods from 21 lady-operated Portland spots, will be delivered to Planned Parenthood on the day of Trump's inauguration.

Coquine's impossibly good smoked almond chocolate chip cookies. Will they be in Cookie Grab 2017's pink box? Hell yes.
Image: Stuart Mullenberg
Next Wednesday and Thursday, January 18–19, 21 female-owned businesses across the city will unleash "Cookie Grab 2017: The Ultimate Bake Sale," hawking "kick-ass boxes of beautiful homemade cookies" created by a cadre of Portland's most respected bakers. Cookie contributors range from Minnick and Murray to Kim Boyce at Bakeshop and the lady crews at Sweedeedee, Dame, and Beast (full list of contributors, below). The goal? Raise $25,000 in support of women, children, and reproductive rights. In a total not-coincidence, every cent raised will be donated to Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette on Friday, January 20... the same day America officially makes noted grabber Donald Trump's presidency a real-deal thing.

Lovely's Fifty-Fifty's signature barley raisin cookie. Yep, it's in the box too.
Image: Sarah Minnick
The all-volunteer operation, which was hatched less than two weeks ago during a home dinner Minnick and Murray shared, is also a concrete reminder of the wide, wide breadth of talented women Portland's restaurant industry boasts. And what they can create on short notice when they're really, really pissed off motivated.
"I think, as do all of the women contributing to this cause, how critical it is to put forward a compassionate protest and raised voice rather than a nihilistic approach to the political climate unfolding," explains co-organizer Murray. "This will be the first of many fundraising collaborations to be hatched in the years to come."
Boxes are pre-order only, and 200 have already been claimed. (EDIT: boxes are now sold out.) Secure your sweetness now and pick up the goods next week at your choice of sugar shack. FYI, the businesses will also have cool, high-quality Cookie Grab posters for sale for those who want to donate but, I assume, also want to actively deny themselves pleasure.
Finally, something sweet is happening in 2017.
Cookie Grab Businesses & Contributors:
- Ayers Creek Farm
- Baker & Spice
- Bakeshop
- Beast
- Coquine
- Cyril's
- Dame
- Little Red's Bakeshop
- Lovely's Fifty-Fifty
- Mae
- MÅURICE
- Milk Glass Market
- Nostrana
- P's + Q's
- Sea Star Bakery
- Sweedeedee
- Tournant
- Two Tarts
- Woodlawn Pastry
- Miss Zumstein
Portland Cookie Grab 2017
$50 a box, order Cookie Grab boxes here
Pickup at participating local bakeries and restaurants
Wednesday–Thursday, Jan 18–19
$50 a box, order Cookie Grab boxes here
Pickup at participating local bakeries and restaurants
Wednesday–Thursday, Jan 18–19
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