We found her! It's her! It's really her ... the Beaver Creek Cookie Lady!
Young ski school kids enjoy homemade cookies at Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek chefs deliver free, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies around the base area at 3 p.m. every day.
The sudden appearance of dozens of free, freshly baked chocolate chip cookies transpires in dream-like fashion at Beaver Creek every day.
All you have to do is hang around Beaver Creek Village and the base area of the mountain around 3 p.m. and somehow, magically, hot, steaming cookies are circulated on silver platters among hungry skiers and snowboarders until they’re gone. It can be minutes. It can be seconds.
A mystical “cookie lady” has been credited as the mastermind behind these cookies. But let us tell you the true story.
The cookies have been at large for the last eight years at Beaver Creek. They are the outcome of the annual cookie contest in November, in which bakers from across the country are invited to pitch their best chocolate chip recipes into the running for top cookie, as judged by a sea of lucky tasters on cookie judgment day.
The winning morsel is baked in vast quantities every day in the ovens of Toscanini restaurant and distributed still steaming, not by just one cookie lady, but by several male and female bakers, at 3 p.m. every day.
All cookies are fair game and offered to one and all, regardless of silly hats or unfashionable ski getups.
Be there or go hungry. And be on the lookout. These warm, magical delights go fast.
Video
Plum Vail's Drew Beebe heads up to Beaver Creek in search of the famed Cookie Lady. Some of you may have heard of her. Watch and see what our sweet-toothed Drew discovers in his quest.
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