With snow in the forecast, the cake ladies at the Alexandria Foodland in Calhoun County decided to have a little fun Thursday afternoon.

“It was during the grocery panic that everybody has the day before snow comes in,” Eric Prichard, who co-owns the Alexandria grocery store with his father, Sam Prichard, told AL.com today.

Customers rushed in for bread and milk, of course, but the Alexandria Foodland also had a run on the limited-edition James Spann cookie cakes that bakers Sasha Doan and Miranda Pelham decorated especially for the occasion.

Two versions of the pizza-sized chocolate chip cookie cakes featured photos of the popular meteorologist from Birmingham’s ABC 33/40 shopping for bread and milk. Another showed Spann striking his famous finger-wagging pose. And a fourth one included a photo of “We (love) James Spann” written in the snow.

“My cake decorators came up with that idea,” Prichard said. “They just decided to throw it together at the last minute and thought it would be a hit.

“So, I sent it to James on Facebook to make sure he was OK with it, and he said, ‘Yes sir, this is outstanding.’”

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Prichard shared pictures of the Spann cakes on the Alexandria Foodland Facebook page, and they sold out of the first batch within about an hour.

“We didn’t know how they would actually go, but they took off pretty fast,” Prichard said. “Word spread on Facebook faster than we thought, and everybody said, ‘Oh, I gotta come get one.’”

Doan and Pelham had already left for the day after their shift ended, but Prichard called and asked them to come back in and make some more cakes.

“They just put ‘em out for fun to see what would happen,” Prichard said. “I said, ‘Hey girls, those are all gone. Would you mind coming back and making some more?’ So they did.”

By the time the store closed Thursday night, Prichard estimates they sold about 100 cookie cakes.

That Facebook post has generated more than 1,300 likes and 300-plus shares.

The Alexandria Foodland is closed today because of the winter storm, but Prichard said they should have some more James Spann cakes after the snow melts and the store reopens Saturday.

“We may have four or five of them left,” he said, “but if somebody wanted some, they can throw something together tomorrow.”