THE COOKIE DEPARTMENT's team of experts work around the clock to bring highly calibrated confections to discerning dessert lovers. Starting from simple ingredients including organic coffee, our scientists of sweetness bake creative cookies that are delicious and fully functional.
Akiva Resnikoff worked in a variety of regular jobs in seriously un-regular Berkeley, California until one afternoon, during a dull, regular-company meeting, he hit on the original idea of the 'functional' treat while snacking on cookies and coffee. That day, the first purposeful cookie (and a fun, new, un-regular company) was born: the AWAKEN BAKED COOKIE and THE COOKIE DEPARTMENT.
There were risks, to be sure, but Akiva was finally ready to give it all up (the money, the prestige, and the attention of all the regular job ladies) and in late 2009 he officially launched THE COOKIE DEPARTMENT.
Now THE COOKIE DEPARTMENT, with its inventive assortment of delicious and functional cookies, is Akiva's single-minded obsession. He takes great pride in running his company well, making amazing cookies, treating customers with respect, conducting endless meetings, looking serious and carrying a clipboard.
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Thanks to Susie at Artisan Food Discoveries & Business i.e NuttyFig who featured The Cookie Department’s founder in her “Food Entrepreneur Profile”. Check out an excerpt below and click through to read her tasty tribute to The Cookie Department.
I’d gone gaga over their fun, retro office-themed branding. Akiva explained: “A lot of time was put into the concept and all of our marketing is geared towards “50?s and 60?s office America”. While it hasn’t quite made the leap to the current packaging, you can see a young cookie company in motion as they figure out what works.
The product is well made too, with inventive, natural flavors – some geared more to adults and others to eaters of all ages. They’re not your decadent bakery style cookies but what you might look for as an energy-bar alternative.
Read the rest of the post including some of Akiva’s Lessons Learned over at nuttyfig.com.
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The Cookie Department's project to perfect the naturally caffeinated espresso cookie, code-named "AWAKEN BAKED," was declassified in September.
Our dedicated staff worked 24/7 to measure, mix, bake off, taste and test countless batches in a quest for the perfect quotient of ORGANIC COFFEE, CHOCOLATE CHIPS and SEA SALT.
Their breakthrough came in the early morning hours of August 4th when the team discovered the perfect chill/buzz ratio, long considered the holy grail of naturally caffeinated baked products.
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