In 2001, with tobacco production already declining across Kentucky, Royce and Nancy McCormick decided to grow blueberries as an alternative crop.
About a decade later, their Daviess County Blueberries, 1401 Hill Bridge Road, numbered about 2,500 blueberry bushes in 12 varieties on three acres.
Their daughter, Hanna Bailey, started making blueberry cobblers in 2015.
“That’s when I started baking a lot,” she says. “I obtained my home baker’s license in 2018. I have made thousands of blueberry cobblers.”
But cobblers aren’t what she’s known for.
Her bakery Doozie Doez is better known for its cookies, cakes, cupcakes, brownies, cake pops and other desserts.
Bailey isn’t sure how she got the name.
“Doozies are sandwich cookies,” she said. “In the beginning I made them. I’m not sure about Doez. Maybe there were a dozen.”
Bailey still does most of the baking.
“My mother retired in 2020 and sold the blueberry farm,” she says. “She helps me and my daughter helps me a little.”
Today the company serves Owensboro and Bowling Green and the counties in between.
“I love to travel, so I go everywhere,” Bailey said. “Next year I have a wedding in Nashville and a wedding in Indiana. I get a lot more wedding questions. To see the joy when you bring your dessert to the event is so wonderful.”
She said she was about 10 when she first started baking.
“My mom would say, ‘Let’s bake something,’” Bailey said. “I loved it.”
These days, Bailey bakes for five hours every Thursday at Bittel Hall at the Daviess County Lions
Club fairground.
“I’ll be decorating for the rest of the week,” she said.
“I grew by word of mouth,” Bailey said. “People remember me from the blueberry farm.”
She said, “I still miss seeing people at the blueberry farm.”
Desserts aren’t the only thing Doozie Doez does.
“I have a mobile bakery that I take to events,” Bailey says. “I make lunch boxes for companies.”
She said: “I use high quality, fresh ingredients. I try to use local as often as possible. It’s a great way to help other small businesses.”
