Premium Ingredients | Legendary Cookies | Grey Ghost Bakery
Our Founder
When Katherine Frankstone was the age of five, all she longed for was her very own Easy Bake oven. Her parents had other plans, though- and chose to steer her from the toy shop, back home to the warmth of their own kitchen. It was there she climbed up on a stool alongside her father and learned to bake in the real thing. For decades, she has been satisfying the sweet teeth of her family and friends with her perfectly balanced, crisp- yet chewy cookies.
Coming from a family of driven entrepreneurs – her grandparents founded an insurance company in the middle of the Great Depression – Katherine was inspired to transform her hobby into her own specialty food company. With Grey Ghost Bakery, Katherine is serving up a taste of her childhood with a good old fashioned dose of Lowcountry ghost lore.
Premium Ingredients
Believing the real thing is the best thing- Grey Ghost Bakery’s fresh, premium ingredients include: unbleached, unbromated flour, European-style butter, pure cane sugar, whole eggs, pure vanilla extract, cocoa, crystallized ginger, molasses, cane syrup, and premium nuts and spices.
Our made-from-scratch, cookies not only feature fresh, real ingredients, they’re lovingly hand-formed according to secret family recipes perfected over generations.
Grey Ghost Bakery’s founder Katherine Frankstone learned the craft of baking alongside her father who always used premium ingredients. “Great recipes and premium, real ingredients are the keys to our freshness and taste,” says Katherine who joyfully points out that despite all real ingredients and a lack of preservatives, the cookies have a surprisingly long shelf life (90-120 days depending on variety).
Awards & Recognition
We are honored that our Molasses Spice cookie has won a Silver sofi Award in the Cookie Category for 2018! The sofi Awards are like the Oscars for the Specialty Food business, and we are incredibly honored that Grey Ghost Bakery has won its second award. In 2014, our Lemon Sugar cookie won a Silver sofi in 2014.
Each year, Martha Stewart and the editors at Martha Stewart Living honor makers, small-business owners, and creative entrepreneurs in the fields of crafts, design, food, and style. ‘Made in America’ spotlights the maker, supports the local, and celebrates the handmade. The program is made up of people and communities that have turned their passion for quality craftsmanship and well-designed goods into a way of life.
Grey Ghost Bakery is proud to be a certified member of the WBENC (Women's Business Enterprise National Council) — an organization that seeks to fuel economic growth by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of businesses that are 51 percent owned, controlled, operated, and managed by a woman or women.