Audrey Koz – The World’s Best Cookie Baker

My mom, Audrey Koz, was one of those incredible people who made a lasting impression on everyone she knew. Audrey was a pharmacist by profession.  As such, she knew that the "best medicine” was a great homemade chocolate chip cookie!  My mom's cookies were made with love and people ALWAYS told her they were the best cookies they had ever tasted! These cookies were my mom’s way to spread her love to all the people that came into her life.  Audrey was an ambassador of goodwill. Once you met her, she was your immediate friend and your biggest cheerleader. Her "world famous” cookies were the conduit to spread her incredible love and magic.  Once someone tasted Audrey’s cookies, they were hooked and it was a combination of her amazing warmth/love and her one of a kind cookies that truly made an unforgettable impact. My brother is recording artist Dave Koz.  At the beginning of his career, my mom sent cookies along to every meeting Dave went to and to every performance he gave.  The smooth jazz music world fell in love with my mom and her cookies!  Dave eventually became a famous sax player and my mom claimed that her cookies were largely responsible for his success!

THE LEGACY CONTINUES…Throughout my youth and adult life, I watched my mom connect with people on a very special level.  Cookies were the physical symbol of her love and all who knew her craved both her and her cookies.  There was NOTHING like watching the reaction she got from people when they tasted her cookies! When Audrey passed away suddenly in November, 2005, I felt compelled to carry on the tradition of spreading her love and magic though these incredible cookies.  We started with Audrey’s original chocolate chip cookie recipe and have broadened to include other favorite flavors including oatmeal raisin, snickerdoodle, white chocolate raspberry and Red Velvet.  It gives our whole family enormous joy to know that my mom’s legacy and love continues to spread through her cookies.

-Roberta Koz Wilson