Customers of a small Kansas bakery may find themselves nibbling on a different kind of dough.
The owner of Sis Sweets Cookies & Cafe put out a plea for help finding her $4,000 diamond, believing it may have fallen into dough and baked into a cookie sold at the local shop in Leavenworth.
Dawn “Sis” Monroe said she noticed the center diamond of her engagement ring — which she hasn’t gone a day without wearing in nearly four decades — was missing last Friday after making cookies at her bakery.
“Bonus if you buy cookies today,” Monroe wrote in a Facebook post from her business page the same day. “My diamond is missing… My heart is beyond broken. It’s been on my hand for 36 years.”
“If you happened to find it, I would forever be in debt if you would return it,” the desperate baker added.
Monroe said she and her staff frantically searched the kitchen as soon as she noticed the marquis-cut stone was missing.
“I looked down at my hand, and the center diamond is gone,” she told the local station KMBC 9 on Tuesday. “We went back to the kitchen and looked around.”
But the rock — picked out by her husband and estimated to be worth more than $4,000 — was nowhere.
“I was crying, and all [my husband] could say was, ‘You still have me,’ so that made it all better,”
Monroe said.
She thinks it dropped into cookie dough she was making and baked into either the chocolate chip, sugar or peanut butter cookies the shop sells.
The baker posted about the missing stone not just as a plea for help, but also to warn customers to bite into her cookies carefully.
“Mainly cause I didn’t want anybody to break a tooth,” Monroe told the station.
As of Tuesday, Monroe’s missing diamond still hasn’t been found.
She is offering a reward of free cookies — sans diamonds — to anyone who finds it and brings it in.