WALKER TOWNSHIP — Anne Yorks’ Flour Box Bakery is a girly-girl’s dream: Bricks in three shades of pink, tiny pink flowers peeking out of window boxes and cookie packages tied with pink ribbon visible inside.

That representation of the bakery is Yorks’ dream — in the form of a frosted sugar cookie.

The bakery cookie is one of a few dozen Yorks sketched, baked and iced to create a Christmas cookie village.

She included buildings that have personal meaning for each family member, and those buildings will add to the holiday goodie boxes Yorks gives each year.

The local baker works out of her kitchen, where a pale pink KitchenAid mixer sits on the counter and green and red baskets adorned with chalkboard labels hold flour, sugar and her hundreds of cookie cutters.

While Yorks started out making candy and baking cookies in 2007, demand for her frosted sugar cookies soared, making them the focus of her creativity.

“I think the bakery is my favorite cookie so far,” she said of the village piece she’ll share with her 4-year-old daughter, Grace. “It’s the dream for my future.”

The dream for the entire Christmas village started a couple of months ago, just after Yorks and her husband, Topher, welcomed baby Cecelia to the family. Not taking any customer orders for a while, Yorks wanted to bake something special for her family. She had just created her first cookie scene, a Thanksgiving dinner, complete with turkey, sides, glasses of wine and place settings.

“I’ve just been coming up with new ways to use cookies,” she said. “I thought it’d be really cool to do a Christmas village.”

She viewed hundreds of pictures of villages online, looking at roof lines and other details. She sketched her plans, adding notes for icing colors and other ideas, and ended up with a cookie scene complete with trees, carolers, street lights and little extras around a candy shop, general store, post office, toy store, church and book store.

“My grandfather was a postmaster, so I thought it’d be really cool to do a post office for my dad,” she said. The other cookie buildings contain similar stories.

The village took Yorks about a week to execute, and the pieces are now wrapped in cellophane bags, waiting to be gifted to family members. Yorks and her mother spent many holiday season baking together, and Christmas was the one day the children could eat a cookie with breakfast. Yorks will continue the tradition with her own children. Grace, used to seeing cookies shipped out the door, couldn’t wait. She even helped decorate for the first time this year.

“She just giggled the whole time,” Yorks said. “It was so much fun.”

Yorks will begin taking orders again in January, at www.flourboxbakery.com. Jessica VanderKolk can be reached at 235-3910.