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Art & Soul: The Culinary Arts - Where You Can Find Some 'Frick'n Good Cookies'

Frick'n Good Cookies
Lisa Barry
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89.1 WEMU

Cookie lovers can find a unique cookie variety at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market.  Called "Frick'n Good Cookies," they are named after the Frick family who went into business nearly a year ago making and selling cookies with a unique shape and flavor.

Lisa Barry talks with Mikayla Frick, who helped create the cookie company using her grandmother's secret recipe and technique.

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Boxes of Frick'n Good Cookies

Mikayla Frick recently graduated from college but was having a difficult time finding a job in the fashion industry (which was her major) at the start of the pandemic.  So. she started a cookie company based on the family name "Frick'n Good Cookies."

She and a few family members started baking and selling the cookies in May of 2020, and she says the company now has seven employees. 

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Frick'n Good Cookies sign

She describes the cookies as being close to a scone and says just one can be rather filling.  They come in several varieties, including classic chocolate chip, chocolate chip with a peanut butter filling, and oatmeal with butterscotch chips.

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Frick'n Good Cookies Menu
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Chocolate Chip Cookie from Frick'n Good Cookies

Frick says they are continuing to expand and will soon be baking out of a new location in Ferndale.

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Frick'n Good Cookies out of the oven.

She says they plan to sell their Frick'n Good Cookies at more than a dozen local farmers' markets beginning in the spring, including in Ann Arbor.  

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Peanut Butter-Filled Chocolate Chip Cookie from Frick'n Good Cookies.
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Mikayla Frick baking Frick'n Good Cookies.

They can also be ordered from their website and shipped to cookie lovers anywhere.

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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie from Frick'n Good Cookies.

You can also check out Frick'n Good Cookies on Facebook and Instagram.

  

**Special thanks to Paul Keller for providing the Art & Soul theme music.**

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— Lisa Barry is the host of All Things Considered on WEMU. You can contact Lisa at 734.487.3363, on Twitter @LisaWEMU, or email her at lbarryma@emich.edu

Lisa Barry was a reporter, and host of All Things Considered on 89.1 WEMU.
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