Alabama state cookie inspires new Yellowhammer coffee

Alabama state cookie inspires new Yellowhammer coffee

Now that Alabama has an official state cookie, a Birmingham coffee roaster is offering a limited-edition coffee blend to go along with it.

Earlier this summer, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a bill designating a cookie recipe created by Mary Claire Cook, a fourth grader at Montgomery’s Trinity Presbyterian School, as the State Cookie of Alabama.

Mary Claire named her cookie the Yellowhammer — a nod to Alabama’s state bird and to Alabama’s nickname as “the Yellowhammer State” — and she collaborated with her grandmother to develop a recipe that features such Alabama ingredients as peanuts, pecans, honey and oats.

(The pecan is Alabama’s official state nut, and the peanut is the state legume.)

Now, O’Henry’s Coffee in Birmingham has come up with a “nutty, sweet, buttery” Yellowhammer coffee blend inspired by Mary Claire’s cookie recipe.

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“This Yellowhammer blend captures the essence of the Yellowhammer cookie, seamlessly fusing the rich flavors of toasted pecans, peanut butter, and wildflower honey,” O’Henry’s Coffee said in a media release. “The nutty undertones evoke memories of savoring pecans, the state’s nut, while the subtle sweetness reminiscent of honeyed biscuits adds a touch of indulgence.”

The Yellowhammer coffee blend, which retails for $19.99, is available by the bag online and by the bag or the cup at all seven locations of O.Henry’s Coffee in Birmingham.

For more information, go here.

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