Mrs. B’s Cake Cookies

In this month’s Heavenly Recipes, Nina Bergeron, human resources generalist for the diocesan Office of Human Resources, shares her mother’s recipe for Mrs. B’s Cake Cookies. Nina recalls that her mother, who is a preKindergarten teacher at Upper Little Caillou Elementary School in Chauvin, pieced together this recipe when Nina started high school in 2014. “I was in band and my mother would make snacks to get me through the practices and to bring for band camp. She started making these cookies and everyone loved them. When I lived at home during college, she’d whip some up as a snack while I was studying. My dad loves them, so she makes them for him. And, over the years, we made a lot of different flavors of the cookies.”

Nina says she is not much of a cook, but she does make these cookies for get togethers with her friends, because it’s such a quick, simple recipe and everyone enjoys them.

Nina, a native of Chauvin and a graduate of South Terrebonne High School in Bourg, has been working for the diocese since Nov. 1, 2022. She says she found out about the position two different ways … one way was from a Nicholls State University SHRM Facebook post.

“A good, close friend of mine, Father Brett Lapeyrouse, (administrator of Sacred Heart Church parish in Morgan City) also saw the position opening and told me about it,” she says.

Nina earned a bachelor of science degree in management with a concentration in human resources from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in December 2021. She currently lives in Thibodaux and is a parishioner of Christ the Redeemer Church. a