{"id":88785,"date":"2026-05-05T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/?p=88785"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:33:43","slug":"leave-no-crumbz-cookie-delivery-startup-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/eat-see-do-2\/eat\/leave-no-crumbz-cookie-delivery-startup-boxes","title":{"rendered":"A Long Beach baker turns her cherished memories into sweets through monthly cookie boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sitting in the waiting room at the doctor\u2019s office, 12-year-old Alaysia Sharma was listlessly flipping through a magazine when she came across a recipe that set her on a new path. She excitedly ripped out the instructions for espresso chocolate chip cookies to save for later. As soon as she got home, she asked her stepmom if they could make them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember being like, \u2018Oh my gosh, that’s so cool!\u2019 Because when you’re 12, coffee sounds so grown up,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She fell in love with baking that day, and now, at 30, she runs her own cookie business, Leave No Crumbz, out of her Long Beach apartment. While still working full-time in the tourism industry, Sharma sells curated cookie boxes each month with a variety of signature flavors that customers can mix and match in sets of six to 12. There\u2019s no storefront. It\u2019s all pickup and delivery in the Long Beach area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a small enterprise but one with big heart. Every cookie Sharma makes has a story and is inspired by memories she holds close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A box of cookies from Leave No Crumbz, a startup business in Long Beach. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything I do, I want to bring back that joy that I had when I was a kid. Because when you get older, life becomes so complicated, and I feel like it’s so much harder to find joy in things that are so simple,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she has top-selling cookies like the brown butter chocolate chip and the vegan salted dulce de leche snickerdoodle available year-round, Sharma adds a couple of rotating flavors to the menu each month. The cookie box of the month features two rotating flavors only available for that month and one signature flavor that customers already know and love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharma\u2019s cookie box for April was created as an ode to her parents. The caramelized white chocolate macadamia cookie was inspired by her dad\u2019s sweet tooth. He used to always buy the Pepperidge Farm soft-baked white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Sometimes, Sharma said, he would share. Sharma put her own twist on her father\u2019s favorite cookie by adding Cara Cara oranges and caramelizing the white chocolate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The brown butter toffee oat streusel cookie is a tribute to her mom. It started as a Christmas gift and was originally a simple brown butter toffee cookie. Sharma said her mom loves butter and used to snack on chunks of it as a kid, so she wanted to make something that leaned into that buttery nostalgia. Seeing how much her mom \u2014 who is usually pretty picky when it comes to sweets \u2014 loved the cookies, Sharma knew they had good potential to be something more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, that’s a very big deal getting my mother’s validation for something, because she’s very hard to please. I was like, \u2018Oh my god, I finally did it!\u2019\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharma added oats and streusel to give the cookie more texture and said it has been a big hit with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alaysia Sharma, the owner of Leave No Crumbz, holds a box of her cookies that she makes and sells from her home in Long Beach. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sharma started Leave No Crumbz in 2024, but in her logo, she says \u201cEst. 1996,\u201d the year she was born, because, in a way, the cookies are telling her story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s me, it\u2019s all of me wrapped in something that you can take with you and enjoy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharma said her favorite part of owning her business is creating joy, not just in herself but in her customers as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLife is hard, and it’s complex, and if something as simple as a cookie can make someone\u2019s day better, then I feel like I’ve accomplished something,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can order the monthly cookie boxes at <\/em>leavenocrumbz.com<\/em><\/a>. Orders can be made for pickup or delivery in the Long Beach area.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI just think everyone deserves joy,\u201d said Alaysia Sharma. And she hopes her cookie startup delivers it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":88744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"\u201cI just think everyone deserves joy,\u201d said Alaysia Sharma. And she hopes her cookie startup delivers it.","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32365],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32346],"class_list":["post-88785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eat","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88792,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88785\/revisions\/88792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88785"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=88785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=88785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}