
Legacy 1865 Pitch Competition Winner
Awarded $5,000 at the 5th Annual Black Entrepreneurs Week, powered by Equiliberty Foundation.

Coco's Creations is a family-run catering & mobile food kitchen serving slow-smoked barbecue and bold Cajun-Creole comfort food — crafted with love by Chef Coco.

From intimate dinners to community-sized cookouts, every menu is built around your people, your moment, and the flavors that make it feel like home.
Birthdays, weddings, reunions — full-service catering with a Southern soul.
Office gatherings, school events, and community feeds done right.
Comforting, home-style meals for senior communities and loved ones.
Our mobile smoker rolls up to your venue — low-and-slow brisket, ribs, sausage, and the smoked meats that build our gumbo.
We bring the full kitchen and the spice to your backyard or venue.

Coco's Creations was born from a passion for cooking that runs deep. After more than a decade in education, Chef Coco stepped out of the classroom and into the kitchen full time, turning her gift into a family-centered catering and mobile food business.
Our specialties — barbecue and Cajun/Creole comfort food — are served up with bold flavor and a whole lot of love. Whether you're planning a celebration, feeding your community, or caring for a loved one in assisted living, our menus are crafted to bring people together.
From the stage to the spotlight — recognition for a craft built on family, flavor, and the legacy of Louisiana cooking.

Awarded $5,000 at the 5th Annual Black Entrepreneurs Week, powered by Equiliberty Foundation.

Bringing the win home — celebrating the matriarchs whose recipes and resilience built Coco's Creations.
At the 5th Annual Black Entrepreneurs Week, powered by the Equiliberty Foundation, Chef Cortnee “Coco” Williams took the stage with a story years in the making — and walked away the winner of the Legacy 1865 Pitch Competition.
What started in a home kitchen, fueled by family recipes and a decade in education, has grown into a full-service catering and mobile food brand rooted in Louisiana flavor. The $5,000 award is more than a prize — it’s fuel for the next chapter: expanding the mobile kitchen, deepening community partnerships, and bringing Cajun-inspired barbecue to even more tables.
Coco’s Creations was featured as a brand on the rise — one carrying the legacy of the women who came before, and cooking it forward with bold spice, slow smoke, and Southern soul.
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