Mom's Cookie Bar Brings Home-Baked Goodness To Doylestown

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — A sweet new addition has arrived in downtown Doylestown bringing
with it a delicious taste of home and chocolate milk on tap.

Mom’s Cookie Bar, which officially opened on July 19 after a soft opening last week, is located inside the historic Hart Bank building on North Main Street where mom is whipping up her delicious cookie bars inside.

In the days leading up to the opening, Patch talked with “Mom,” the face behind Mom’s Cookie Bar, which will celebrate its grand opening on July 30.

“Mom” is none other than Lindsay Baker, a Central Bucks West graduate and mother of three who attend the Central Bucks School District.

“All I ever wanted to do was to bake cookies because that is what makes me happy,” said Baker.

Baker has literally been living up to her name since she was a kid growing up in Doylestown where her mom taught her how to make her first batches of cookies.

Lucky for Doylestown, “Mom” kept baking, mostly for friends and relatives who kept encouraging her to share her gift with the greater community.

“People have been telling me for years that I should sell my cookies,” she said. “So I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to sell cookie bars and make the store look like a bar,” she said. “That’s why we have the taps.”

She also found the perfect location for her business - the historic Hart Bank building, which she remembers as a kid growing up in Doylestown.

“I am really excited to bring this building back,” she said. “It means so much to me to be opening up in a town that has meant so much to me. I also wanted a spot where everyone feels welcome and like you’re coming home and you’re having a cookie and an ice cream and hanging out.”

Since purchasing the building earlier this year, “Mom” has been keeping her followers apprised of her progress on her Facebook page posting photos of the fresh coats of paint, the brand new furniture, the improved outdoor patio area and her crowded soft opening days.

“It hasn’t been that long, but it has felt like a long journey getting open,” she said.

Now, after a soft opening, which saw droves of people waiting in line for her homemade batches of freshly-baked cookie bars, Mom is spreading her homemade goodness to the masses.

Mom’s Cookie Bar features more than 65 different flavors of home-baked stuffed and regular cookie bars that she will be rotating throughout the year.

“We also have a draft system that we developed so we have chocolate milk on tap. We also have nitro cold brewed coffee from ‘Backyard Beans,’ a local brewer in Lansdale. And we are making our own homemade sodas. We have root beer and orange on tap right now.”

In addition, Mom’s serves soft-served homemade ice cream offering vanilla and a featured flavor of the week.

“With that we make milk shakes and Avalanches, which is kind of like a Blizzard, that can be customized with various candies. I also chop up cookie bars that can be added to the Avalanches or be blended down into milk shakes, which tastes really awesome.”

For the most part, Mom said everything is all-natural and chemical free. There are no preservatives, artificial flavoring or coloring.

“That’s just something I’ve done for my family and our diet at home,” said Mom.

In addition to sweetening up the town, she’s also hoping everyone will leave with a delicious memory.

“I have had a life long love of baking and absolutely love seeing people smile after they try something that I've made,” says Mom. “I've been asked many times what my secret ingredient is and the answer is always, "it was baked with love.”