FatBoy’s Outrageous Cookie Dough

Owner Joel Ansh can be pretty kooky when it comes to his cookies. Like quite a few people in the specialty food business, he became a commercial baker when neighbors and friends couldn’t get enough of his cookies. Now, he sells the cookie dough frozen and ready-to-bake. The compact boxes fit easily into any nook of the freezer, ready to bake up the whole batch for a special occasion, or a single cookie, whenever you’d like a treat. 

FatBoy cookies are truly the apex of break-and-bake cookie culture. Forget the stuff from the supermarket: You can taste the quality of the ingredients in each bite. Just separate the pre-cut cubes from the block of dough The scent of baking cookies begins to tempt the senses, and ten to twenty minutes later, freshly-baked cookies emerge from the oven. The frozen dough stores for up to one year in the freezer or six weeks in the refrigerator.

The only oddity—or unique attribute, depending how you look at it—is that the dough’s original cube shape doesn’t quite bake out of all of the flavors, creating an unusual-shaped cookie. While the Dutch Chocolate Chunk cookies in the photo above, for example, have a regular form, the Cranberry Walnut at the right show the “squareness” that some of the other flavors exhibited as well. You may find this shape more interesting and attractive than the standard cookie—but you most likely won’t be able to pass them off as your own homemade.

The FatBoy Cookie Company calls its product “Outrageous Cookie Dough.” FatBoy is the childhood nickname of the owner, bestowed upon him for his ferocious appetite. But in the current environment, some might find the company name a bit outrageous, as well. While the cookies are worth every calorie, in our childhood-obesity-sensitive culture, we might re-think that and keep the company name in very small print. These cookies are so good, we just don’t want the company to lose any sales because the name serves as a conscience-tweaker.