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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Mother-daughter business Rancho Road Bakery takes off
By ANN BLOOM
For the Wallowa County
Chieftain
WALLOWA COUNTY
— Do you have an anni-
versary coming up? There’s
a cookie for that. Have a
birthday around the corner?
There’s a cookie for that.
Wedding? Yep, there’s a
cookie for that, too.
No matter the occasion,
Rancho Road Bakery, a new
mother-daughter bakery in
Wallowa County, can prob-
ably provide you the cook-
ies to commemorate the
occasion.
Debi Warnock — the
mother — and daughter
Deidre Schreiber, started
the business, named after
the road they live on, about
three months ago. It all
started when Schreiber,
who attends Eastern Ore-
gon University, was home
for Thanksgiving break
and, with a lot of time on
her hands, baked about 300
gingerbread men that were
scattered on the counter
throughout her mother’s
kitchen, Warnock said.
“After she went back to
college, I thought, ‘Hey,
do you think … ?’” said
Warnock.
And the cookie-baking
business was born.
“Who
would
have
thought this community
needed so many cookies,
but they do,” she said.
Warnock works full time
as the OSU 4-H and Family,
Community Health agent,
and Schreiber is a full-time
student. The bakery is not
a full-time endeavor for the
women.
“We do it because we like
to make people happy with
cookies,” Schreiber said.
Schreiber has worked at
Debi Warnock/Contributed Photo
A plate of Oregon cookies made at the new Rancho Road Bakery is shown.
a bakery and Warnock has
taught, by her estimation,
“hundreds of kids in this
county how to bake.”
They recently moved to a
house with a larger kitchen.
“Truly, our kitchen begs
to be baked in,” she said.
Schreiber said she “likes
to experiment and learn dif-
ferent techniques and get-
ting to enjoy the end prod-
uct. It’s a stress reliever.”
Schreiber was in 4-H for
12 years and participated in
the 4-H cooking club.
“Who’s not happy eat-
ing a cookie?” asked War-
nock. For her, she says, it is
a relaxing, creative outlet.
Among the cookies are
sugar cookies decorated
with royal icing, a type of
icing that is used in deco-
rating baked goods and is
harder than regular butter-
cream or powdered sugar
frostings. The duo said they
spent quite a while perfect-
ing the recipe.
They say they have made
cookies for weddings, bridal
showers and baby showers,
birthdays, barbecues, Easter,
Bible study groups, gradua-
tions and branding parties.
Schreiber explained that the
cost of the cookie partially
depends on the size, number
of colors used, whether there
is an air brush technique
used or she uses a projec-
tor. She cited the FFA cook-
ies she made for the state
FFA offi cers as an example.
The FFA emblem is intricate
and there are several colors
involved in each cookie.
They have made Val-
entine heart-shaped cook-
ies, shamrocks and beer
mugs decorated with green,
foamy, white icing for St.
Patrick’s Day, tulips and
eggs for spring and the list
seems to go on.
Their most popular
cookie thus far? Ear tag-
shaped cookies that have
been ordered for several
branding events. There have
even been Weeds of the West
cookies for someone who is
a pesticide applicator.
A popular cookie has
been “the Dipper,” a small
cookie that is dipped in
buttercream icing. Rancho
Road Bakery also makes
what they call their “Rus-
tic Ranch” cookie that War-
nock describes as, “a huge,
almost half-pound choc-
olate chip, dark chocolate
and peanut butter, cookie.”
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For spring and summer,
they will be trying straw-
berry and lemonade cookie
varieties.
Although there is not that
much sugar in the cookies,
Warnock said they easily go
through 50 pounds of fl our
in a month and a lot of pow-
dered sugar.
Quality control has been
in-house with Warnock’s
husband, Charlie, and her
son, Devin and Schreiber’s
boyfriend, Matt, all making
sure nothing goes out that
isn’t top of the line.
They like to have a
week’s notice for orders
especially if the cookies
involve diff erent techniques
or multiple colors; costs
vary. If they can, they will
try to accommodate peo-
ple’s requests for cookies,
with shorter lead times.
“If we can, we’ll fi t them
in,” said Schreiber.
Orders can be made by
texting, through Instagram,
calling or messaging, and
can be delivered within the
area or picked up at agreed-
upon locations.
Although there are no
plans in the works for a
brick-and-mortar location,
Rancho Road Bakery has
plans for a Cookie-of-the-
Month project with themed
cookies and to set up at the
Wallowa County Farm-
ers Market. They have also
experimented with themed
kits, which include the
baked cookies along with
the frosting and decorations
for people to do their own
decorating.
Schreiber summed up
their baking endeavor in
one short sentence. She
said Rancho Road Bakery
is “local cookies for local
people.”
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