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Swoon was a custom-cookie bakery at 924 E 5th St in Columbus Park, where owner Sofia Hudson hand-decorated made-to-order sugar cookies from a family recipe.12 Started in 2007 as a side gig and moved into its Columbus Park storefront in January 2020, Swoon was mostly a by-order and ship-nationwide operation, with a small retail window a few days a week for drop cookies and treats.1 Swoon closed its kitchen in early July 2025 after 18 years, announced by Hudson on the business’s own Instagram and Facebook accounts; the justswoon.com domain went dark in the same window.34

Description

Written in the present tense below for the period the business operated; Swoon closed in July 2025.3

Swoon made custom decorated sugar cookies to order — holiday assortments, business logos, weddings, baby showers, and birthdays — hand-decorated with vanilla buttercream from a family recipe using natural ingredients.1 Owner Sofia Hudson says roughly 85% of the work is fully custom, designed for a specific client or event, with nationwide shipping.1

Alongside the custom business, the Columbus Park shop keeps a small retail component: drop cookies like brown butter chocolate chip, double chocolate, and monster, plus oatmeal cream pies, lemon bars, brownies, and a house item called “5th Street Crunch,” available during limited retail hours (current listings show Thursday–Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.).15 Swoon sits next door to Café Cà Phê on East 5th Street, part of the small cluster of independent food businesses that has reanimated this stretch of the neighborhood.6

Ownership and history

Swoon began in October 2007 as a side gig for Sofia Hudson and grew into a full custom-cookie business serving Kansas City and, by mail, beyond.1 The business moved to its current Columbus Park home at 924 E 5th St in January 2020.1 It remains locally owned and owner-operated by Hudson.16

Last verified: 2026-08-13 · Source: Swoon’s own online shop, retired — Internet Archive capture of justswoon.com/shop dated 2025-06-17, taken weeks before the business closed · URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20250617001510/https://www.justswoon.com/shop?page=2 · Confidence: Medium

This is a historical menu. Swoon closed in July 2025 and none of these items are available. Prices are first-party (Swoon’s own Wix shop) but frozen at the June 2025 snapshot. The Internet Archive captured only page 2 of the shop’s 4 pages, so the list below is a partial, alphabetically mid-range slice of the assortment catalog, not the whole shop.7 Each item was a decorated-sugar-cookie assortment sold as a boxed set.

  • BABY — Hello Baby ($56.00)
  • BABY SHOWER — Floral ($58.00)
  • BABY SHOWER — Lil Cutie ($56.00)
  • BABY SHOWER — Mama to Bee ($56.00)
  • BABY SHOWER — Rainbow Baby ($56.00)
  • BABY SHOWER — Spring Baby ($54.00)
  • BACHELORETTE ($53.00)
  • BAPTISM — Boy or Girl ($52.00)
  • BAR MITZVAH / BAT MITZVAH ($56.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Cake ($53.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Celebration ($44.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Colorful ($51.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Confetti ($49.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Elegant ($48.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Rawrsome ($48.00)
  • BIRTHDAY — Smiley Celebration ($44.00)
  • BRIDAL SHOWER ($54.00)
  • FATHER’S DAY — Golf ($58.00)

Shop categories offered alongside the above, per the same capture: Everyday, Seasonal, Holiday, Celebrations, Engagement, Congratulations, Encouragement, Birthday, Anniversary, Thank You, Get Well Soon, Thinking of You, I’m Sorry, Condolence.7

Retail / drop items (no published prices)

  • Brown butter chocolate chip drop cookie1
  • Double chocolate drop cookie1
  • Monster drop cookie1
  • Oatmeal cream pies1
  • Lemon bars1
  • Brownies1
  • 5th Street Crunch1

Rotating open-house flavors (archived; no published prices)

  • Cherry, Cream Cheese & Blueberry — swirls of alternating cherry buttercream and cream cheese icing dotted with dried blueberries.8
  • Guinness Pints — the iconic pint recreated and topped with an intense chocolate Guinness buttercream.8
  • Bailey’s — fluffy Bailey’s-flavored buttercream piled onto vanilla sheep cookies.8

Made to order

  • Custom decorated sugar cookies — vanilla buttercream from a family recipe; holidays, business logos, weddings, showers, birthdays; roughly 85% of the business was fully custom work priced per commission.1

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Northeast News — “Swoon! KC’s favorite custom cookies call Columbus Park home.” — asserts: owner Sofia Hudson; founded October 2007 as a side gig; moved to Columbus Park (924 E 5th St) in January 2020; ~85% fully custom work designed per client/event; nationwide shipping; made-to-order vanilla-buttercream decorated sugar cookies from a natural-ingredient family recipe; drop cookies (brown butter chocolate chip, double chocolate, monster), oatmeal cream pies, lemon bars, brownies, “5th Street Crunch”; limited retail hours Thursday–Saturday. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  2. Columbus Park KC — Eateries directory (Swoon Cookies listing, 924 E 5th St) — asserts: Swoon located at 924 E 5th St, Columbus Park. ↩ ↩2

  3. Swoon (@justswoon) — closure announcement post, Instagram (mirrored on the business’s Facebook page) · facebook.com — asserts: “After 18 Sweet Years… I want to share that Swoon will be closing our kitchen at the beginning of July. We are taking orders through July 3rd”; “We will no longer have regular retail hours at our Columbus Park location. Made in Kansas City on the Plaza always has cookies.” Note: the post itself is not date-stamped in the retrieved text; the year is established as 2025 by “18 Sweet Years” against the October 2007 founding and by the domain-death window in 4. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Internet Archive CDX index for justswoon.com — asserts: last HTTP 200 capture of the homepage 2025-06-17; HTTP 404 by 2025-07-28. ↩ ↩2

  5. Yelp — Swoon, 924 E 5th St, Kansas City, MO 64106 (listing updated June 2026, categorized Desserts) — asserts: address 924 E 5th St; active dessert/bakery listing with 2026 reviews; phone (913) 687-6233; retail hours Thursday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. ↩

  6. KC Magazine — Columbus Park/Café Cà Phê coverage noting Swoon — asserts: Swoon Bakery, owner Sofia Varanka Hudson, sits next door to Café Cà Phê in Columbus Park and expects the coffee shop to grow local retail traffic. ↩ ↩2

  7. Swoon’s own online shop, page 2 of 4 (archived 2025-06-17) — asserts: the 18 named cookie assortments and prices listed above; shop category list (Everyday, Seasonal, Holiday, Celebrations, Engagement, Congratulations, Encouragement, Birthday, Anniversary, Thank You, Get Well Soon, Thinking of you, I’m Sorry, Condolence). Pages 1, 3 and 4 of the shop were not captured by the Internet Archive. ↩ ↩2

  8. Swoon’s own site, “Flavors” page (archived 2025-01-17) — asserts: rotating open-house flavors Cherry/Cream Cheese & Blueberry, Guinness Pints, Bailey’s, with the descriptions quoted; retail shop hours Th & Fri 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sat by appointment. Caveat: this page was stale even when live — it advertises “Next open house: Feb 2020.” ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. justswoon.com, retrieved 2026-08-13 — asserts: Wix placeholder page, “This domain isn’t connected to a site.” Root justswoon.com returns HTTP 404. ↩

See also

  • Registry
  • Owner-And-History-Research-Toolchain
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On the record — ks.city/registry/swoon-cookie-crafters · record updated 2026-08-13