Elizabeth Shirey, 38, confronted Skhylur Davis as she was gathering the mail for her grandmother, Alice Patterson, on May 11 in a South Carolina neighborhood.
While the girl was with a group of other children, Shirey grabbed Skhylur and snatched the mail from her.
However, after realizing the mail was not, in fact, stolen and didn't belong to her, Shirey apologized and attempted to offer the 11-year-old cookies.
WRDW reported that Shirey's husband also approached the group to intervene and said, "If you were a different type of guy, then this would have been another story," according to Skhylur.