Your clients and team get cookies to share now and a photograph that lives on the wall for years. Every box supports Touch A Heart's job training and a local artist.
For thanking a whole team.
For the clients you want to remember you.
Every box comes with one matted print. Choose from these six, all of them Oʻahu, shown here to scale in their mats. Each box in your order can have a different one.
Both come with a matted print of the photograph you pick, 8 x 10 or 8 x 12, in a white mat that fits any standard 11 x 14 frame. It's printed here on Oʻahu. This season the cookies come in Baker's Heart's Comfort & Joy holiday wrap. You can order now. Pickups run November 16 to December 22, at Kalihi Union Church on weekdays or Pearl City Community Church on Wednesdays.
Touch A Heart's story
Touch A Heart works with people facing barriers to employment, including incarceration, homelessness and substance abuse. It doesn't try to fix anyone. People aren't projects, and growth is cultivated, not manufactured.
So the work starts with the soil, how a person sees themselves and what they believe is still possible. Then come values, then real craft, in paid internships in a working kitchen.
Baker's Heart is that kitchen. Every tray out of the oven is practice at being excellent, and every purchase supports Touch A Heart's training programs.
Everyone is growing into someone. From The Touch A Heart Way
In the photographs
Kawika's photographs carry that story too.
ʻĀlina
ʻĀlina means scar. It's a valley the rain carved into the Koʻolau over thousands of years, and the scars are what make it beautiful. People are the same. Someone's past is part of their story, not the whole of it.
Mālie
Mālie is the North Shore after big surf pulled the sand away and uncovered a sharp reef. The water runs over it soft and slow. Something that gentle shouldn't win against rock, and over time it does. That's what steady care does for a person.
From Kawika
Nobody picks the soil they grow up in. I try to remember that before I judge anyone. Touch A Heart built a whole kitchen around that idea. I'm proud to be working so closely with them.
Kawika Lopez
What goes in the box
Baker's Heart bakes with ingredients grown in the islands, like macadamia nuts and flours made from ʻulu and kiawe. Kiawe is the thorny tree most people walk right past. Its pods become the flour in their kiawe cookies.
Every lace cookie is made by hand, thin enough to see the light through. Most of Kawika's photographs start with a hike in the dark or a long wait for the right light. Neither one gets rushed, and you can tell.
Who's behind it
Baker's Heart is Touch A Heart's social enterprise bakery. It makes original, artisan lace cookies and biscotti bites that celebrate local ingredients, and it's a working kitchen where interns and apprentices learn the trade.
“We envision a world where people recognize their true value and can realize their full potential.”
Kawika Lopez is a landscape and aerial photographer based on Oʻahu. Most of his photographs start in the dark, on a ridgeline before sunrise or with a drone along the coast. Every print has a name, many of them in Hawaiian, and a short story about what it means.
He also shoots Baker's Heart's product photos, so this box grew out of work the two were already doing together.
Baker's Heart's whole holiday collection is on the Touch A Heart store, from single-flavor boxes to gift boxes. You can order now for pickup, delivery, or shipping starting November 16.
Shop the Baker's Heart holiday collectionKawika's Hawaiʻi prints are on kawikalopez.com, with matted prints from $55 and metal and canvas from $210.
Shop Kawika's printsPick as many of each photograph as you need. You can mix photographs, and both boxes, in one order.