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We are incredibly excited to launch our very first Maya’s Cookies Beach Clean Up! Details are below, followed by printable coloring page designs by Caiti Rose, the creator of Sharktopia. Check out more of her stunning work at www.sharktopia.org.   This beach clean up will happen at Mission Beach near Belmont Park on September 20th at 8am. We will provide trash bags, single use gloves, and importantly… free cookies for participants! We recommend you bring your own water bottle, sunscreen, and reusable gloves if possible (gardening gloves work!) PLEASE WEAR A MASK AND MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING! We will have our...

This August has been a busy one for the Maya’s Cookies team! Maya has been especially busy— baking cookies, being interviewed for features, and taking care of her new family’s new puppy, Duke the dachshund! As usual, Maya has been baking hundreds of cookies everyday while also planning out our new flavors for the holiday season (sorry, no flavor spoilers just yet!) It’s definitely funny to see Maya using the snowflake cookie cutter in the middle of a California heatwave. We’ve thought about investing in a kiddie-pool to help stay cool since there’s no AC in the bakery or our...

Have you ever wondered if those reviews you leave ever get read by the company itself? Well rest assured, here at Maya’s Cookies, we read each and every review. Why? Because they’re important! Each customer has taken the time to write their opinion on our product and company and (good or bad) we care about our customer’s thoughts. We really do take all feedback into consideration: we love to know what is working and what isn’t.   It makes our day when a review makes us chuckle or if it gives us that warm fuzzy feeling on the inside. And...

After being in business for five years, Maya’s Cookies had become accustomed to a certain level of daily orders, a certain ebb and flow for seasons and I had supplies and production resources in place to support that. Then, in ONE DAY, everything changed. With the horrific death of George Floyd, we all witnessed this awakening in America of people finally ready to take action to address racial inequality and injustice. There was this incredible surge of people wanting to do something to support black communities and specifically black owned businesses. As a black owned business, Maya’s Cookies was lucky...