As you can see from The Story of Kelly's Famous & Cookie Dough Creamery, we have tens of thousands of Cookie Dough Creamery fans from our four years of being in business, that are potential customers for you, that we can send to your Central Ohio located ice cream shop.

Our fans still love and miss the "Cookie Dough Creamery" experience even 5+ years after we closed. We simply want to hand that existing consumer demand we created over to your ice cream shop, just for being our customer. It's a win/win/win scenario for all parties involved!

When you purchase Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes, we use 5% of the amount you paid on Meta ads targeted to fans of our Cookie Dough Creamery Facebook page in the zip code of your business. The ads will call for our fans to be patrons of your business, because you are offering edible cookie dough flavors with the help of the Cookie Dough Creamery founders. 

Not only will you benefit from the Cookie Dough Creamery fans we send your way, but you will also benefit from a boost of sales from your existing customer base simply by adding a quality edible cookie dough product to your ice cream shop. See: Edible cookie dough is to ice cream shops as French fries are to fast food restaurants. 

What is the process to get up and running?

We offer "Onsite Production and Training" to get you started.

We will come onsite to your ice cream shop with plenty of Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes, butter, flavorings, mix-ins, food containers, and an NSF mixer, in order to make 12 double batches of edible cookie dough flavors for your shop (approximately 144 pounds). 

You can have up to 8 of your staff be trained on what we are doing while we are doing it. You can also use this time to pick our brains about anything you want to know about our years of experience in running Cookie Dough Creamery and Farmhouse Ice Cream Parlor. We will even help you develop business strategies for your new product offering. 

You will need to provide a table of around 10 square feet, with an electrical plug for both our mixer and our hotpot, as well as refrigeration space for approximately 18 gallons of edible cookie dough we will make for you. It will take around 4 hours to make all 12 double batches, depending on how involved you and your staff decide to get while being trained.  

You can order an "Onsite Production and Training" session as many times as you want. 

Immediately after your training session, 5% of your purchase amount will be spent on Meta adds targeted to our fans to get sales of your 144 pounds of edible cookie dough moving. 

Our focus is not just to provide you great products, but also to provide you a great experience. We accomplish this great experience by emphasizing communication, knowledge transfer, providing valuable information, setting you up for success, assisting in advertising your new product offering, and sharing our years of experience operating ice cream shops. 

The benefits you receive from us are similar to what you would experience from a franchisor, but without having to be a franchisee. We teach and share everything you want to know from us. In fact, as a customer of Kelly's Famous, you have the option of utilizing the Cookie Dough Creamery name and logo in your business. Or you can utilize all of our products and support without utilizing the Cookie Dough Creamery name and logo at all. It's your choice. 

What does your ice cream shop need to make edible cookie dough after training?

When you purchase Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes you will need additional ingredients, such as:

• Butter
  
• Chocolate Chips
• Medium ground/chopped Oreo (or generic brand)
• Peanut Butter

The above list would enable you to make the four flavors we carried at Cookie Dough Creamery 365 days a year for four years: Chocolate Chip; Sugar Cookie; Cookies & Cream; and Peanut Butter. We provide some detail below about what it will cost. 

In addition, with your purchase of Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes you are given dozens of edible cookie dough recipes, some of which we used at Cookie Dough Creamery, and some new ones we created after we closed.

To create your own custom unique flavors, simply treat Kelly's Famous Vanilla Bean White Sugar Mix like vanilla ice cream. In fact, if you don't flavor the white sugar mix, it will produce "Sugar Cookie" edible cookie dough. 

A sugar cookie is essentially a vanilla cookie. If you make your own ice cream flavors, you know that many ice cream flavors can be made simply by adding flavors and inclusions (mix-ins) to a vanilla ice cream base. Do the same thing with Kelly's Famous Vanilla Bean White Sugar Mix to produce an infinite number of new edible cookie dough flavors. The vanilla beans in all of Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes will work well to accentuate any flavor you turn our mix into. 

But don't make the mistake of making all your flavors by only using the white sugar mix. Kelly's Famous Vanilla Bean Brown Sugar Mix is not only used to make the traditional Chocolate Chip cookie dough, it is also used to create "Blondie" doughs, as it is a vanilla and brown sugar base mix. Blondies may not get the same attention that brownies get, but a blondie's vanilla and brown sugar base is a perfect foundation for so many other confectionary flavors, which is why the chocolate chip cookie is hands down the most popular cookie in the world.

The chocolate chip cookie is essentially a blondie, despite rarely ever being called a blondie. Simple to make blondie doughs include replacing chocolate chips with M&Ms, Reese's Pieces, crushed Heath Bar, or butterscotch chips. Or you can make some even more extravagant blondies, like Maple Cinnamon Brown Sugar Blondies. We recommend that 1/3 to 1/2 of your flavors be made with the Kelly's Famous Vanilla Bean Brown Sugar Mix. 

Refrigeration

When you purchase Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes, the only product that will need refrigeration space prior to making your edible cookie dough is the butter. One pound of butter will be used to make around 6 pounds of edible cookie dough, which means this "make it as you need it" method requires only 17% of the surplus refrigeration space that "ready to serve" edible cookie dough you can buy wholesale does, saving you 83% of your refrigeration space. 

Once you produce your edible cookie dough from a Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes, it will need to be refrigerated up to the point of being served. We recommend that it be displayed for your customers to see, much like hand dipped ice cream. But we recognize that would require remodeling and capital expense for refrigerated display equipment. Thus many shops will decide to store the prepared edible cookie dough behind the counter in existing refrigeration that the employees can scoop from. 

Mixer

To make edible cookie dough, it needs to be mixed somehow with butter (or vegetable shortening) and your flavorings. If you are just making one sugar mix bag of Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes at a time (or 1/2 bag, or 1/4 bag), this can typically be done mixing it by hand with a large spoon or spatula, and a mixing bowl. Or it can be accomplished a little quicker using a hand mixer. When doing double batches (2 sugar mix bags at a time which produces around 12 pounds), a counter top mixer will save time (and sore muscles).

At Cookie Dough Creamery we had two 8 quart KitchenAid mixers. One NSF certified KitchenAid 8 quart mixer retails for around $950.  

One 8 quart KitchenAid mixer can produce a double batch (2 bags of sugar mix which produces around 12 pounds). Thus, having two of these mixers doing double batches simultaneously allowed us to produce around 24 pounds at a time. 99% of the time we could always keep up with demand with this setup. But there were a handful of times where we were selling it faster than we could make it.  

Over the four years Cookie Dough Creamery was opened, we produced and sold an average of 78.8 pounds per day. That is 13.1 single batches, or 6.6 double batches per day. But not all days were the same. Weekends were busier than week days. Summer days were busier than winter days. 

We recommend that if you opt to use counter top mixers like we did, that you put at least one mixer in the front of the house, so that customers can see it. And if you can, have someone making dough with it during your busiest times, simply to add the "entertainment" value to your business. Kids will love to watch it being made. We didn't do this at Cookie Dough Creamery, but in hindsight we wish we had. 

What does it cost to make edible cookie dough?

When using Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes, the final product will cost you around 17 to 28 cents per ounce (COGS) depending on: 1) the amount of ingredients needed to make the specific flavor; 2) whether you use butter or vegetable shortening; 3) where you are buying your ingredients from (a food service purveyor vs a grocery store; and 4) shipping/delivery costs.

The labor cost to make the above will be around 2 cents per ounce if you chose to make double batches. 

A three ounce serving of cookie dough can easily sell for $3.00 as an add on to a 4 to 5 ounce scoop of ice cream, making your COGS (including labor to make it) 19% to 30% of the price.  

Can cookie dough really sell at 19% to 30% COGS? Answer: Yes! In fact, it's possible to sell it for an even higher price. 

In 2019 (before six years of high inflation) Doughp made a pitch on the TV show Shark Tank and shared that they were making a scoop of edible cookie dough for $0.68 and selling it for $6.00.

$0.68 / $6.00 = 11% COGS

But we don't recommend fleecing your customers with exorbitant prices like they did (and they still do on their website). Our point here being that you don't have to do the opposite, which is to low ball your prices in order to move your edible cookie dough product. Edible cookie dough sells very well at a fair price. 

What is involved in making the cookie dough?

1. Prepare the butter (or vegetable shortening). At Cookie Dough Creamery we did this in a microwave. You can also use a hotpot, or a hot plate with a pan.  
2. Add the butter (or vegetable shortening) and water to the mixing bowl.
   
3. Add the flavor for the edible cookie dough flavor you want to make, such as caramel, coffee, mint, etc... or 1/2 fluid ounce of vanilla extract (per sugar mix bag) if you want to make the vanilla bean flavor of the mix really pop. Note: this is not when you add the mix-ins. Mix-ins are added last. 
   
4. Mix until it is consistent. 
5. Slowly add Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes while mixing. Start with the sugar mix bag to let the sugar have a chance to dissolve, and then add the flour bag. 
6. Once the flour is completely mixed in, add the mix-ins such as chocolate chips, grounded Oreo, peanut butter, etc...

The cookie dough will be at room temperature now, so it will be really soft. It is edible at this point and can be served. But it will become a less "runny" product by being chilled in the fridge before serving. 

How does it need to be served?

That is up to you and the business model you chose to use. We were a self serve ice cream sundae bar, so we simply put pans of the edible cookie dough into a cold top buffet, and let the customers scoop it into their cups. But any model of serving it can be used.

You can offer it as just nothing more than a topping for ice cream. You can make unique sundae offerings with it. You can offer it as a upgrade to a scoop of ice cream ("would you like cookie dough with that?"). Or you can treat it like ice cream itself and let people just get scoops of cookie dough. It's up to you. We will still send our fans to you regardless of what model you chose. 

We also offered "to go" containers of cookie dough, and this accounted for about 10% of the dough we sold, which was just around 8 pounds per day. We opted for 12 ounce containers, and sold around 75 per week on average. 

Can we bake the dough into cookies?

Yes, but you will need to make a few changes to the preparation of the dough.

First, you will need to add 4 eggs per sugar mix bag at Step 3.

Then you will also need to add 2 tsp of baking soda per sugar mix bag at Step 3.

Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for around 8 to 10 minutes. 

Can we make our own flavors?

Yes! Please do! That's what we want you to do. That's the entire intent behind us selling you Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes. Take this ball we are handing to you and run with it! We are excited to see flavors we never produced at Cookie Dough Creamery. 

If you are making your own ice cream flavors, then making new edible cookie dough flavors is no different. Just treat Kelly's Famous Cookie Dough Mixes as you would an ice cream base that you get from a dairy, and turn it into new flavors the same way you flavor your ice creams. 

You can even offer dairy free and vegan cookie dough flavors by using vegan butter (vegetable shortening). But make sure your flavorings and mix-ins are also dairy free and vegan before you market the dough as such. 

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