Soccer player Donna Kelce not only shows love to her sons — Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce — on game days, but she also supports kids at an elementary school in Kansas.
After Kelce, 71, bought 20 mugs that read “It’s Mom Kelce’s World and We’re All Just Living In It” to give out as Christmas gifts from Kansas City-area small business Annie’s Barn, the owner approached Kelce about collaborating on a new mug for charity.
Donna Kelce bought 20 of these mugs in 2023.
“After Donna Venmo contacted me, I sent her a thank you note and asked if I could put her cookie recipe on a mug and donate $5 per mug sold to pay off my elementary school lunch debt—and she said yes,” Annie Stowe, 59 , PEOPLE says, referring to the famous chocolate chip cookies Kelce made for Travis and Jason before they both played in the 2023 Super Bowl.
Stowe, who lives with her husband Karen Eskilson, 60, started making “Mama Kelce’s Cookies” in the basement of their Overland Park home after getting Donna’s thumbs up. The cups feature a detailed cookie recipe and an iPhone Memoji of Donna’s face on it.
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Kelce’s mother’s cookie recipe.
“We sold enough mugs to raise $2,000 [in 2023],” reveals Stowe, adding that the mugs sell for $18 each, with $5 of each sale benefiting her Out of the Red Friday initiative to pay off lunch debt at local schools.
As Donna prepares to cheer on her son and his Chiefs teammates at Sunday’s Super Bowl, Kansas City news outlet KMBC 9 reported that Annie’s Barn raised $2,000 in recipe mugs to give to schools.
Since that story aired on local TV, Stowe tells PEOPLE, Annie’s Barn has raised an additional $2,100, bringing the total raised to $4,100.
More than 30 million students in the United States cannot afford school meals, according to the Education Data Initiative, with a total national school meal debt of $262 million annually. In Kansas alone, the school meal debt is $23,515,926.
Stowe’s “Mama Kelce’s Cookies” cup helps pay off that debt.
“I asked Donna Kelce if she wanted to come with me to deliver the checks to the schools,” Stowe says. “I haven’t heard from her about it, but I know she’s busy with the Super Bowl.”
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Donna is currently in Las Vegas — along with Jason and other relatives (and potentially, soon to be, Travis’ superstar girlfriend Taylor Swift) — to watch Travis and the Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers for the Super Bowl title.
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She previously told PEOPLE that the chocolate chip cookie recipe is “an absolute favorite for me and everyone in the family” and that she hopes other people will “enjoy them as much as we have over the years and get together in the kitchen with our families and friends to bake them, just like I do with mine.”
Here’s the recipe Donna let Annie’s Barn use on the mugs:
- 1½ cups sweet cream butter (3 sticks)
- 1½ cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup of white sugar
- 1 large egg + 1 yolk
- 1 tablespoon. vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water to activate; microwave water first, then stir in baking soda to dissolve)
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cake or cookie flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1½ teaspoons of salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup of milk chocolate
- 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
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Donna made headlines in February 2023 when both of her NFL sons competed against each other in Super Bowl LVII aka the Kelce Bowl. The Chiefs won the championship game 38-35.
“It was a ride. That’s for sure,” Donna told PEOPLE of the magazine’s 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year list. “Sometimes I feel like I’m on another planet. I ask myself: ‘What has my life turned into?’ ”
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