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Our Cookies and Cookie Dough are made WITHOUT:
  • gluten, wheat, rye, barley
  • peanuts
  • nuts
  • soy*
  • milk
  • corn
  • corn syrup
  • salt*
  • transfats
  • chemicals or additives
  • preservatives

Our cookies are delicious, all natural and are low in sodium.
They are a "healthy cookie"!

There are 3 types of cookies:
  • Chocolate Chip Paradise Cookies
  • Super Dooper Snickerdoodles
  • Sensational Sugar Cookies
The cookies come in two sizes:
  • Giant "grab & go" cookies - great for immediate gratification, a delicious snack! Shelf life 4 weeks, longer if refrigerated.
  • Small cookies in a resealable pouch with only 30-35 calories per cookie. Great for portioning out, for lunch boxes, parties, schools, school events. Shelf life 6 months unopened.
We offer 2 types of Cookie Dough:
  • Chocolate Chip Paradise Cookie Dough
  • Sensational Sugar Cookie Dough
The cookie dough is unique, delicious, fun and easy to use!
  • Just scoop and bake. The way you scoop is the way they bake. Be creative and bake your own special cookie!
  • The cookies smell heavenly baking in your own home. Eat fresh-baked, warm cookies out of the oven!
  • Sensational Sugar Cookie Dough can be rolled out, cut with cookie cutters and decorated for parties, holidays, etc. Some customers use the dough for a pie crust!
  • Sensational Sugar Cookie Dough baked plain tastes like shortbread.
  • The Chocolate Chip Paradise Cookie dough is delicious!
  • Customers report that they add the cookie dough to their ice cream for an extra special treat!
Cookies won the CT Food Association Outstanding Gluten-Free Product Award in 2008 and 2007.
  • 1st Place - Snickerdoodles
  • 3rd Place - Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookies have been in various newspaper articles and are featured in February 2009 CT Magazine article, "Winning Food Entrepreneurs".

*Chocolate Chips contain soy lecithin; the sugar and snickerdoodle cookies do not contain any soy. No added salt; naturally occurring sodium is the source of salt in the ingredients resulting in a low sodium cookie.

Recipe Ideas:

Cookie Dough: There are a number of fun and yummy things you can do with the dough, besides making delicious cookies. Here are a few ideas: For the Chocolate Chip Paradise Cookie Dough:
  • spread the dough in a pan and make chocolate chip bars
  • spread the dough in a cake pan to make a chocolate chip cake
For the Sensational Sugar Dough:
  • bake the dough as is either scooped or in a pan for a shortbread-type of cookie
  • roll the cookie dough out using rice flour and use cookie cutters and shapes to make fun cut out cookies. Then decorate them.
  • roll the scoops of cookie dough in sugar to make a sugar cookie
  • roll the scoops of cookie dough in cinnamon sugar to make snickerdoodles
  • spread the dough in a cake pan to make a sugar cookie cake
  • I've had a few customers tell me that they pressed the dough into a pie crust for a dessert crust.

Food Allergies & Intolerances

  • The eight most common food allergens are: wheat, soy, milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish and fish.
  • According to the Celiac Foundation, 1 in 133 people in the US, over 3 million people, have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease, and cannot eat foods containing gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.
  • According to the FDA and other sources more than 12 million people in the US suffer from various food allergies.
  • Approximately 3.3 million people in the U.S. are allergic to peanuts and nuts. Reported peanut allergies doubled between 1997 to 2002.
  • Authorities believe that many more people have food intolerances, which can cause digestive and other physical symptoms.
  • Whether allergies or intolerances are the cause, many people must avoid certain foods to prevent negative reactions ranging from stomach aches and bloating to severe digestive reactions, congestion, hives and other serious or life threatening reactions.
  • Many school systems are addressing food allergies by creating peanut and nut-free classrooms and providing menus that are sensitive to children with food allergies, Celiac Disease and conditions requiring restricted diets. Even day care providers are starting to follow the trend by becoming peanut-free as well.
  • More and more, parents of autistic children and children with behavioral issues are considering diets free of wheat and gluten because they believe it makes a difference in their children's behavior and health.

People Prefer Cookies with Natural Ingredients

In addition to the growing numbers of people with food issues, snackers of all kinds are looking for food that is locally made from natural ingredients without corn syrup, chemicals, additives and preservatives.

Good Websites to Know About

The following are links that you may find useful when researching information about Celiac Disease, food allergies and intolerances and autism: