G Mommas Cookies have become a favorite for many, and now, the tasty treats are going to be made close to home.

Selma native Robert Armstrong, founder of G Mommas Cookies and the Selma Good Company, said the company is almost ready to turn on the oven.

“We’re just getting it ready to hook up equipment and produce. I’m real, real close. I’m working out the kinks on the line right now,” Armstrong said. “I’m getting all the equipment going and making sure it’s producing the cookie I want it to produce.”

G Mommas Cookies has been through several changes since it’s inception in 2009, but this might be Armstrong’s favorite change yet.

“I’m passionate about the Black Belt and Selma and bringing it to the place where I believe it can go,” Armstrong said.

The idea to even begin the company came from his grandmother, Anice Morris Armstrong, who made his favorite chocolate chip cookies when he was grade school.

The idea had been passed around and mentioned before, but in 2009 after leaving his job in Birmingham, Armstrong decided he was going to give it a go and see where it took him.

After two years of baking alone and selling his product, Armstrong decided to put the business on hold in hopes of figuring out a way to be more successful. He tried other outlets of entrepreneurship, but he ended up back in the cookie businesses after having ideas of how to make it work.

He realized that he was going to need a bakery to bake his cookies for him, and after searching some time, the only bakery that would take him was around 1,000 miles away in Pennsylvania.

After testing his dough at the bakery and getting everything worked out to sell his product again, Armstrong took his first order as a relaunched company in October of 2013.

The cookies have since been made in that bakery, but the bakery lacks the capability to package the cookies, making it hard on Armstrong.

After much thought and consideration, Armstrong made the decision to move the company to Selma to Dallas Avenue.

“I decided that I wanted to move it here,” Armstrong said. “Moving here is going to allow me to have more control over the quality. I’ll be able to cut my margins a little bit more, so hopefully we’ll be able to reduce the retail price a little bit.”

Armstrong hopes to be officially up and running soon, and he said he is looking forward to filling more orders.