Dutchman’s vs. Swig: Who Invented Utah’s Pink Sugar Cookie? | Eater

"A family-run boutique, bakery and gas station in Santa Clara just outside St. George, famed for homemade cookies above all else: $1.50 award-winning chocolate chip, peanut butter, coconut, oatmeal-chocolate-chip drops and its signature pale pink sugar cookie slathered in thick buttercream. The treats are hand-scooped, pressed and baked in a tiny kitchen by owners Nick and Liisa Frei, who rely on experience-based tweaks (when to add flour, how to adjust for humidity) and fresh ingredients rather than shortcuts; during big weeks they can produce tens of thousands of cookies and wholesale to many other vendors. After a devastating 2012 flood shut the shop for eight months, the local community rallied, the recipe spread statewide, and locals praise the shop’s denser, handmade texture and small-bakery quality that many feel larger operations can’t replicate." - Carlye Wisel