theextravaganza cookie LH Staff | leadinghearts.com
On a crisp December afternoon, hundreds of friends and family enter a welcoming front door of a home in South Texas. Each person is given food-safe gloves and a Christmas tray or box along with instructions to choose any cookies they wish from the displays in the next rooms. When they’ve finished loading up their trays, they will pay for the cookies at a set price per pound. And all the money goes to a school in India. Inside, the guests are greeted by more than 6,000 cookies of various gourmet varieties beautifully displayed, all handmade by a mother-daughter duo—Karen Porter and Cherry McGregor.
The two bakers have hosted their Cookie Extravaganza for more than 15 years to support various charities, including helping build a fresh-water well in Haiti. For the past several years, they have sent the proceeds to the Sanctuary Home, a school in India which educates and houses untouchable and unseen children in India. Education catapults these children out of poverty and into a bright future. Sanctuary Home has been a personal passion for the family for many years and family members regularly travel to the school
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