In a sea of sugary boutiques boasting on mini-cakes with crowned tops, it is an obsessive sweet tooth's relief when something fresh falls into the dessert-drenched mix. Better yet, what plops the genuine icing on any crave-worthy cake is the availability of the notable treats in proximity to you.
Working just around the boutique bend from Handcrafted Cookie Company is a situation that should victoriously receive two gold stars. One, being that they celebrate the blessed cookie and two, being that it takes me less than a minute to trot to their only location.
Let me digress momentarily, you see, I do adore the cupcake. Even those who say they are sick of them, honestly are not. But, when you reminisce to your childhood years and your time spent baking with your dearly grandma, are you contemplating the notorious papered-stump? NO!
Chad and Theresa Williams, the darling duo behind the all-natural baking company, fulfill the need for sugary fiends breezing around Bridge Street to treat themselves to a health-conscious marveled mouthful.
Making use of original recipes that are free of hydrogenated oil and corn syrup, the couple crafts everything from classic chocolate chips to creative concoctions of lavender vanilla and chocolate hotties (fiery japs in rich cocoa). And with the mouthwatering blends too interesting to not continue, with raspberry mint and coconut sugar cookies, blueberry oatmeal, honey roasted nuts, chocolate mint and chocolate grapefruit, I may never stop gushing over the adventuresome appeal to these Main Street-made circles.
The Williams' are also currently hosting a community-search for recipes, asking anyone interested in participating to submit an original how-to and a sample for consideration to their baked shop. The contest concludes April 30 and the recipe best suited to taste will be featured June-August.
The Handcrafted Cookie Company is also as much of a cafe as a brick-bearing bake shop, selling organic bubble teas and milks, including soy, and also, an ever-changing choice of other sweet treats, including their baggies of brownie butts and their German chocolate cakies, as seen above.
Handcrafted Cookie Company, 24 S. Main St., Phoenixville, 484-921-4934
The best secrets are those that take just a little longer to uncover.
Being a girl who couldn't be more health-conscious about her diet, uncovering a raw dairy in the backwoods of my neighborhood could not have been more squeal-worthy. Owner and operator Mark Lopez takes pride in maintaining the healthiest of cattle, all of which he knows by name and appearance.
Personally trekking through his organic grained fields, waving amongst cows named Vampire Bat, Sheron Faye, Roxy, Damien, Scout, Daisy, plus many others, I felt no harm in consuming massive gulps of his fresh milk. Regularly certified to produce and sell the pure variety of the creamy milk on his property, the dairy's raw beverage is well liked from a versatile group of regularly attending customers. 
From body builders, foodies and locavores, to name a few, crowds of folks find the milk smooth and sweet, and believe it offers a pleasantly rich sip compared to the accustomed, casual slurp of skim or lowfat cow's milk.
Pay a visit to Wholesome Dairy for a new experience of dairy intake, or locate your own 
