A mom, two little helpers, and a wooden spoon.

Hi, I'm Tiffany Alford, and Mommy & Me Goodies is my little family's kitchen — me, my five-year-old daughter (head baker in training), and my one-and-a-half-year-old son (official taste-tester, unofficial flour-thrower).

It started the way most good things do — by accident. We were baking cookies for a friend's birthday, and by the end of the week we had a stack of orders from neighbors who "just happened" to walk by our porch.

Every cookie we bake comes from a recipe box that's been in the family for three generations. We tweak it a little each year — usually because a small pair of hands wanted to add "more chocolate, mom" — and it keeps getting better.

We bake in small batches, from a home kitchen in Prescott, Arizona. We use real butter, real vanilla, and chocolate we'd actually eat by itself. No shortcuts. No mystery ingredients. Just the kind of cookie you remember from a childhood you might not have actually had — because that's what homemade tastes like.

We're going through the last steps of our cottage food licensing now. Once we open, Cookie Club members are first in line — and one lucky member wins a free dozen the day we launch.

Thanks for being part of the beginning. — Tiffany, and the little ones