4 Fun Ways to Use Cookies for Fall Treats

Celebrate the season with fun fall treats!

We like to think that cookies contribute to more festive celebrations with family and friends. This fall season, sweeten things up with your favorite sunflower-seeds-and-rolled-oats combination of flavors. Find your favorite new fall snacking traditions!

Grace's Best Cookies

Fall Treats or Party Favors for Halloween

Looking to pass out extra special fall treats on Halloween for all of the trick-or-treaters? Grace’s Best provides a great, health-conscious alternative to candy! Whether you have littles in tow knocking on doors this Halloween or you’re serving up sweets at a school function, they also make great party favors! Pick up packs of the 1oz bags. Kids will love them and so will you!

Caramel Apples with Cookie Crumbles

A fall favorite with a crunchy twist! Caramel apples can be arranged in so many different ways. Instead of the classic caramel with peanuts, crumble up some Graces Best Cookies (yes, you have our permission!). Coat the caramel apple and enjoy a new take on the original recipe.

Graces Best S’mores

Bonfires, flannel and S’mores! Nothing screams fall more than a camping trip, even if it’s just in your back yard. Replace gram crackers with Graces Best Cookies for a far more delectable snack! Dip half of the cookie in melted chocolate, roast your marshmallows and you’re set to enjoy the perfect fireside treat!

Holiday Pie Crust

The holidays are right around the corner! Get ready to dress up in your Thanksgiving best only to spend the afternoon in Grandma’s dining room. Bake your next pie to perfection using crushed up cookies as your gourmet crust.

Grace's Best Cookies Pie Crust

Fall treats make every season more fun. Find Grace’s Best Cookies in a store near you!

Event, Family Traditions

Celebrating in Wichita at the Spring Family Egg Hunt

We had a blast participating in the Wichita Moms Blog’s Spring Family Egg Hunt as a Swag Sponsor on April 6th!

At Grace’s Best Cookies, we value traditions and making sweet memories as a family.

This Easter season, we celebrated with the Wichita Moms Blog at their Annual Spring Family Egg Hunt! For the past two years, we’ve had the pleasure to sponsor this event by providing 1 oz cookie packs for the egg hunters. This special opportunity allows us to partner with a great organization to share crunchy, sunflower seed cookies with kids and parents alike!

Egg Hunt with Grace's Best Cookies

With affordable ticket pricing at an indoor facility, the sold-out event ensured a positive experience for every family. Featuring activities, giveaways, entertainment, food, and goodies, the 3rd Annual Spring Family Egg Hunt was most certainly a success!

On April 6, 2019, the Wichita Sports Forum flooded with giggly toddlers, enthusiastic parents, and even some preteens who weren’t too cool for an egg hunt!

We anticipate the Spring Family Egg Hunt becoming a spring family tradition for Wichita families for years to come.

Wichita Moms Blog knows how to provide quality family fun and we appreciate their love for local businesses!

Interested in having Grace’s Best Cookies at your next community event? Let us know! We would love to work with you.

Made with simple ingredients found in your own kitchen, Grace’s Best Cookies stand out from the rest. Order your cookies in time for Easter, Mother’s Day, and graduation to share sweetness with some-bunny you love!

While our 1 oz. packs may not fit inside plastic eggs, they still make the perfect Easter basket treat!

Easter basket with Grace's Best Cookies

Sharing in the egg-citement of community events brings us so much joy. We are excited to celebrate Easter 2019 and look forward to participating in next year’s Spring Family Egg Hunt!

Easter basket giveaways

Photo credit: Wichita Moms Blog and Sally Cavanaugh Films & Photos

Family Traditions

3 Reasons to Eat Sunflower Seed Cookies

Our sunflower seed cookies not only make a delightful treat but complement your cravings with naturally delicious ingredients.

When compared to a classic sandwich-style cookie, (you know, the kind where a generous amount of crème is stuffed between two chocolate cookies) sunflower seed cookies like ours at Grace’s Best do not conform to a pattern of tradition. And that’s the thing we love most about our cookies: there’s nothing traditional about them!

But why bother choosing Grace’s Best sunflower seed cookies over that of a leading brand?

1. We’re family-owned and based locally in Kansas City, MO.

In 1992, Grace’s grandmother, Margaret, forged a new path and began selling the cookies that her loved ones in the Kansas City area simply couldn’t get enough of. With an idea all her own and the support of her family, she started a lasting tradition using a non-traditional recipe. Since then, her son has taken over the company to honor his mother’s legacy and bring her sunflower seed cookies recipe to taste buds that crave a different kind of snack.

Plus, we love the local scene and supporting the small grocers that carry our cookies!

2. Grace’s Best Cookies are made with naturally delicious ingredients.

Artificial preservatives and artificial flavors make no sense in our cookies! We only include pronounceable and recognizable ingredients so that what you see on the label is what you taste. Take a peek at the ingredients we use in our sunflower seed cookies – ones you can find right in your own kitchen:

Rolled oats
Sunflower seeds
Sweet cream butter (milk)
Brown sugar
Enriched unbleached flour
Sugar
Eggs
Baking soda
Vanilla extract

Grace's Best natural gourmet sunflower seed cookies 1 oz

On the other hand, the ingredients for a basic sandwich cookie tell a completely different story! What are you familiar with on this list?

Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour
Niacin
Reduced Iron
Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}
Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid)
Sugar
Palm And/Or Canola Oil
Cocoa (Processed with Alkali)
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Leavening (Baking Soda And/Or Calcium Phosphate)
Salt
Soy Lecithin
Chocolate
Artificial Flavor

High fructose corn syrup can link to major health risks; that’s why it’s often discouraged in high amounts. The last ingredient is simply listed as “artificial flavor,” meaning that some of the flavor comes from a chemical compound rather than its actual ingredients!

3. Our sunflower seed cookies contain less sugar and sodium than the leading sandwich cookie brand.

Let’s look at the nutrition facts. We compared a six-pack of sandwich cookies to a 1 oz. pack of Grace’s Best Cookies that contains 5 cookies. Prepackaged, both are convenient for snacking with a controlled serving. Here’s what we found:

	Grace’s Best	Sandwich Cookie
Calories	130	270
Total Fat	6g	11g
Saturated Fat	2.5g	3g
Sugars	8g	23g
Sodium	55mg	220mg

Next time you’re craving a sweet, crunchy snack, look at the label and then decide. We encourage everyone to pay careful attention to what goes into their bodies! Remember, even our sunflower seed cookies are still cookies, so snack wisely!

Have a question related to the ingredients in Grace’s Best Cookies? Let us know!

Grace's Best natural gourmet sunflower seed cookies

Family Traditions

A Family Tradition in the Making

Grace’s Best Cookies was built on the foundation of a family tradition.

But what’s so traditional about a cookie made out of sunflower seeds and rolled oats?

At first glance, there’s nothing traditional about our cookies. Where are the chocolate chips? What about the cream-filled center?

Behind these delicious, crunchy cookies is the story of how an authentic, non-traditional recipe stood the test of time and anchored a family in a new tradition.

It all starts with a woman named Margaret. Back in 1992, Margaret, who just happens to be Grace’s grandmother, started her own cookie company just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. She hoped to pass her sunflower-seeds-and-rolled-oats recipe down to the next generations in her family. These cookies in particular were her bestseller, her secret weapon, her masterpiece.

Margaret saw how her most loyal fans connected with the naturally delicious ingredients she incorporated into her recipe. And these tasty treats may be small, but they have big flavor.

She refused to pass up the opportunity to make a tradition out of such a unique, non-traditional recipe. But she still needed someone who would carry out her legacy after she retired and have the same passion for her company.

She had one candidate in mind who fit that description perfectly. And it was none other than her son, Jeff. Fast-forward ten years to when Grace’s Best Cookies officially began as a family-owned and operated company.

In 2002, Jeff agreed to take the reins after Margaret retired and he named the company after his own daughter, Grace.

And since Jeff took over the company, over 99 million cookies have been sold in-store and online! Hundreds of grocers saw the potential of stocking their shelves with these sweet snacks. Select Whole Foods Markets, Natural Grocers, GreenAcres Markets, Hy-Vee, and countless other locations nationwide sell Grace’s Best Cookies.

Margaret’s vision of a family-owned tradition came to life. Together, both Jeff and Grace continue out her mission to make cookies for the next generation of dedicated snackers.

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