Teacakes: You know you want them.

Or maybe you’d rather have chocolate chip cookies or sugar cookies, or both. Or a batch of pralines. Or some brightly iced Easter cookies.

This week’s giveaway is a package of freshly baked goodies shipped to you from Abeeya’s Bakery in Zachary, Louisiana. Head sweetie pie Donna M. Butler offers you a true dilemma: Which of the above-listed goodies to choose?

I like to support small businesses and Donna’s is an interesting one: After a couple of years’ worth of financial and personal challenges for her family, she’s fighting a foreclosure and creating her own job by baking cookies, cakes and pies at Abeeya’s Bakery. (“Abeeya” is the way her toddler grandson pronounced “abuelita,” which is Spanish for “Grandma.”)

Donna also founded The Broke Wives Club, which she envisions as a “tow chain” of women helping women, i.e., pulling one another forward in life.

Her baked-with-love treats could be desserts or coffee breaks, or snacks for you and a friend as you catch up on episodes of “30 Rock.” Maybe you’ll specify delivery close to Easter and put them in your kids’ baskets.

Or perhaps you’ll use them as a time machine, recalling the times you used to spend baking with your mom, or your abeeya, or a favorite auntie. The fragrance and flavor of freshly baked sweets have the power to transport.

To enter:

If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.

I’ve decided to make the deadline a day later from here on out, to give readers coming over from Money Talks News a shot at the giveaways. (My writing is syndicated on MTN every Tuesday.) This week’s entries must be received by 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 27. If I don’t hear back from the winner by Thursday morning, I’ll pull another name.

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126 thoughts on “Teacakes: You know you want them.”

  1. I subscribe via email. I also like to support small businesses — both out of principle, and because the quality is usually so much better, and if there’s any issue, you know where to find the owner.

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  2. Oh pralines…how I miss you….would love to win some! Thanks for supporting the small businesses – much better than a big box store!

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  3. Those Easter cookies look beautiful! I just subscribed via Facebook (found your blog because I loved your articles on MSN and then saw Frugal Cool).

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  4. Enter me, please! I love to support small businesses – my husband both owns a small business and participates in the local small business community.

    (Also, did you know the Facebook link you gave a while back where you list the winners of your giveaways won’t let you see it if you don’t have a Facebook account? Is there any way to make that publicly visible, or to list the winner somewhere here on the blog? I suppose it won’t kill me not to know, but I thought I’d bring it up just in case.)

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    • @SherryH: I used to list each week’s on the site in a separate post but that began to feel superfluous somehow. If I can remind myself to do this in the future, I’ll put the previous week’s winner in the current giveaway announcement.
      Thanks for letting me know.

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  5. I follow you on Twitter and the photos are so pretty, someone will surely have a joyous Easter with these treats!

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  6. Hey Donna,
    Thanks for shifting some attitudes toward cookies and candy today! Abeeya’s Bakery knows how to make ’em. The Broke Wives’ Club appreciate you and know that you are certainly a sister ready and willing to link up with another and pull her out of the ditch of life back on the road to financial success! Broke to stoked Donna, broke to stoked. xo

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  7. My Dad was stationed in Louisiana many, many, many years ago; and his Bday is in April. So if I won these would be a fun addition to his birthday goodies ……and hopefully he’d share some with me 😉

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  8. I would love cookies to add a liitke something sweet to my children’s Easter Baskets with there bibles. Going back to why we celebrate Easter

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