Ashley the Bear Braves the Cookie Smack-Down

Ashley with Cookie Queen Leslie Laine, who wears the royal Cookie Queen tiara and sash and holds the Golden Spatula and star bouquet.

Ashley the SATW Traveling Teddy attended her first holiday cookie exchange this weekend, and got to pose with the once and future Cookie Queen, Leslie Laine. Leslie won the cookie smack-down last year, and repeated this year with double chocolate ginger cookies. Cookie competitors are members of the Ladies Discoursive and Digestive Society of Greater Cincinnati.

YUM! was Ashley’s verdict. The only thing that could have made them better was a big dollop of honey!

Ashley travels for the third-grade class of Meredith Schroeder at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio. Traveling Teddy is a geography outreach of the Society of American Travel Writers and Build-A-Bear Workshop.