Galletas Goretti

As most of you already know, I have a love for both baking and eating cookies.  One day the girls were telling me after school that their friends were asking where they could buy the yummy cookies and breads they bring for a snack to school some days.  They laughed and said they weren’t bought, they were from Mary Kate.  This sparked an idea; maybe I could sell cookies at local stores to help out the finca.  When I proposed this idea to Sor Keidy she told me that she had been thinking the same thing.

After getting all the necessary approvals at the farm and three local stores, all we needed was a name.  Sor proposed “Galletas de Maria” (Mary’s cookies), as she calls me Maria.  We decided we needed something catchier.  Nolvia then came up with the golden name, “Galletas Goretti” (Goretti Cookies).  The apartment for the teenage girls is named after the Italian saint Maria Goretti, and as the cookies come from our house, what more appropriate name could one think of. 

Sara and I then spent Monday afternoon making over 100 cookies to sell.  She was excited to help, and wants to continue the mini venture next year when she takes over as the girls caretaker.  The next morning when we dropped of the first batch all three store owners were very helpful and excited to try the new cookies. 

So if you are in La Ceiba, make sure and stop by Kibok, Tipicafe, or Cyma Joyeria and try out some wonderfully yummy Galletas Goretti, freshly delivered every week and helping out the finca daily.