It’s 1958 in Beaufort, South Carolina at the home of 15-year-old Madeline Abernathy, author of "Elegant Girls Can Bake: The History of the American Cookie.” The Brandy Lou Graham Chapter of the Helen Meyer Society for the Inspired Young Baker is holding their Annual Creative Cookie Competition for the Inspired Young Baker. Will the girls be able to keep their cool when an Atomic Bomb threatens their idyllic town? Will Chip Tate ever finish building the gazebo for his Eagle Scout Project? And what will happen if they run out of butter?! These Pageant Princesses will have now have to depend on their spunk and determination to survive!