A Lexington educator known to his students as “the cookie man” now has a brick-and-mortar store where he plans to teach others about baking.
Leon Buford-Kelly, an associate principal at Leestown Middle School, opened BK’s Cookies & More Oct. 5 at 365 Longview Plaza, just behind Critchfield Family Market on Southland Drive.
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Buford-Kelly started baking cookies as a treat for students and for school fund-raisers, but things really got cooking in the summer of 2020, during the COVID pandemic. He couldn’t cater anymore, so he began selling cookies online.
Eventually, that grew to sales in Total Wine and More shops across Kentucky, as well as other local retail outlets. — and now to his own bakery and shop, after years of working out of shared kitchen space in Southland Bagel.