
Our Kitchen
I make these in a kitchen
you can drive to.
I'm Jessica. I live in East Hampton, and I've been making cookies for friends for longer than I've been doing anything else professionally. Every dinner party, every housewarming, every "I just dropped these off" moment — it was always the cookies people remembered.
At some point I stopped bringing wine. I'd walk into someone's kitchen with a bag of dough and say "can you turn your oven on for me?" And twenty minutes later, the whole dinner party would shift. People would drift toward the kitchen. The house would fill with brown butter and chocolate and that particular warmth that only comes from something baking. The host would pull the tray out, and for a moment, it felt like her kitchen, her cookies, her house smelling like that. That was always the best part.
In the summer I'd bring them to the beach — a wooden board I carried back from Morocco, still warm cookies stacked on top, bare feet in the sand. They'd be gone before I sat down.
The Pantry Post started because enough people said "you should sell these" that I finally listened. But I didn't want to sell cookies. I wanted to sell that feeling — the oven on, the kitchen warm, your kids coming downstairs without being called.
So I sell the dough. Pre-portioned, ready to bake, made from ingredients I'd put in my own kids' lunch. Every batch is mixed by hand in a licensed commercial kitchen on the East End. The flour is stone-milled that morning. The eggs come from a farm ten minutes away. The butter is cultured and organic.
I deliver it cold, in a kraft box, to your door on Friday mornings. You bake it when you're ready. That's the whole business.
What we never use
- No bleached or bromated flour
- No seed oils (canola, soybean, vegetable)
- No artificial dyes or food colorings
- No preservatives or stabilizers
- No "natural flavors" or gums
- No high-fructose corn syrup
- No dough conditioners
- No factory eggs