How one woman is baking up an inclusive community from scratch in Fox Point with “Jordyn’s Cookies”

FOX POINT, Wis. (CBS 58) — Flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, butter. Or margarine — your choice.

The ingredients are simple.

“They’re one of my favorite cookies, ever,” said Jordyn Landowski as she scrapes down the sides of her mixing bowl with a spatula.

The 22-year-old spends multiple days a week baking her famous sugar cookies, which she then lovingly decorates with brightly colored sprinkles.

“I absolutely love baking, it’s kind of like my stress reliever,” Landowski said.

But she’s not inside her own kitchen.

Rather, she’s inside the Friendship Circle of Wisconsin’s, where she enrolled in a yearlong program back in 2024.

“They just help teach you life skills and how to bake and perfect recipes,” Landowski said. “It was really incredible because I got not only to learn new recipes, but I also got to make friends.”

This program marked a major milestone for Landowski, who lives with spina bifida and has been in a wheelchair “since birth.”

And in the Friendship Circle’s kitchen, she navigates around with ease.

“Trial and error,” Landowski said, giggling as the stand mixer turns on and flour begins flying all over her and the counter. “If it doesn’t work out the first time, just try, try again.”

“Jordyn’s Cookies” launched in the fall of 2025.

She even got to meet her first customer.

“She bought cookies for her grandson’s third birthday party or something, and she literally bought every single cookie in the case,” Landowski recalled. “It makes me feel really happy and just excited that people are loving my cookies.”

Her cookies are sold up front near the cafe area, where a sign reads that “friendship is our main ingredient.”

“It makes me feel included,” Landowski said. “A safe space for me.”

Landowski, who first learned how to bake with her mother, said her message, just like her recipe, is simple and sweet.

“Just get out and have fun and just do what makes you happy.”