You can use the cards as prizes for students who bring in the most fundraising results.  On the other hand, you could sell the cards to raise extra funds (based on a $20 suggested retail price).

This prize program is included free of charge to fundraising groups with at least 10 actual sellers participating in any one of the following brochure fundraisers:

• Place-n-Bake Cookie Dough
• Scoop-n-Bake Cookie Dough
• Gourmet Preportioned Cookie Dough
• Premium Collection Gourmet Cookie Dough
• Elite Retreats

While each parent and school employee needs to be vigilant in making sure these products are removed from the general student population, we cannot forget that peanut butter cookie dough sold in fundraisers would also fall into this recall category.

I would advise any group who has in the recent past or who is currently selling cookie dough to contact the company to verify the status of their product.  (A list can be found here.) I can confirm, however, that the peanut butter cookie dough sold through our partner eFundraising , including the Chippery brand, is safe for consumption and not under a recall.

The risks of not checking this out are real. So far, almost 500 people have become ill and six have actually died across the entire United States.

For more information, please click here to visit the Food and Drug Administration’s Peanut Butter Recall page.

Photo By: Plutor

If you have spent any time around a school, you have been exposed to many different kinds of product sale fundraisers. In my time running a summer camp and an elementary school, I have seen my fair share of sales: candles, soup mixes, popcorn, candy, you name it.

Sometimes these products are terrific, and I feel satisfied that parents are getting a high-quality product in return for their financial support. Other times, unfortunately, I do not feel this way.

However, with Chippery Cookie Dough, I truly believe we have an all-around great product, and I also believe that you will agree.

Recently, I received a sample of Chippery Cookies and their sales catalog. Right off the bat, I was impressed with the handsome literature that accompanied the product. I was able to clearly see what each style of cookie looked like in tempting, professional photographs. I was also incredibly impressed with the wide variety of cookies:

• Snickerdoodles
• Chocolate Chip
• Chocolate Chunk
• Oatmeal Raisin
• Sugar
• Peanut Butter
• M&M cookies
• Chocolate Mint Chip
• Double Chocolate Brownie
• White Chunk Macadamia Nut

There was even nutritional information about the cookies!

The order form was straight forward and easy to understand. I learned that flavors were available in either tub form or in pre-cut slices. Both the tubs and the slices could be thawed and re-frozen for your convenience.

But, we don’t eat the brochure, do we? The real test is how it tastes with a big glass of cold milk.

As you can see from the photos that accompany this article, I have four children. Noah is 9, Liam is 6, Erin is 5, and Claire is 3. If there is a finer collection of cookie testers anywhere in North America, I’d like to know about them. My kids love the cookie. So, when I told them that we were charged with baking up some of these samples, they were thrilled.

Although this may be politically incorrect to write, and the health department may come to shut down my kitchen, the first thing we always do before baking any cookie is to taste the raw dough. This gives us an insight into the very molecular structure of the cookie in its purest form. (It also tastes really, really good!).

Satisfied with the sweet raw dough, we each selected the flavor we thought we’d like the most.

• Noah chose the Snickerdoodles
• Liam chose the Chocolate Chunk
• Erin chose the Double Chocolate Brownie
• Claire chose the M&M cookies
• Jenny (my wife) chose the Oatmeal Raisin
• And I chose the Peanut Butter

Then, we all took six of each of the above flavors and placed them on two cookie sheets and slid them into the oven. (With four little kids, the pre-sliced frozen cookies were neat and easy to use!).

After 10 minutes baking, Jenny pulled the cookies out, and we let them cool off a little bit. We used this time to pour six glasses of ice cold milk.

Once they were cool enough to put in our mouths but still hot enough to be really gooey, I dealt the cookies out like a game of kiddie Texas Hold ‘Em. We each got one of every flavor. As we suspiciously sized each other up and down, I explained the rules of this taste test and got out my whistle. We were going to be disciplined! I had a plan!

But then, all you-know-what broke out.

Liam stole Erin’s Double Chocolate Brownie. While she was crying, Claire reached over and stole Noah’s M& M cookie. As he protested, Jenny snuck my Snickerdoodle, and Erin took Claire’s Chocolate Chunk. I was blowing the whistle and pointing fingers like crazy, but nobody was listening to me. It was clearly cookie chaos! Finally, I had had enough and being the biggest guy in the room, I took everyone’s peanut butter cookies. No one could stop me. I was Godzilla in Cookie-town. Children were crying, dogs were barking, grandmas were fainting. It was all rather something.

But in the end, an amazing thing happened. They started eating. They started dunking cookies in milk. They started smiling. Pretty soon all the cookies we baked had disappeared, and all was well with the world.

All I saw crowded around our kitchen island were happy little faces and four cute milk mustaches, complete with crumbs.

There are obviously many cookie dough suppliers out there, and I’m sure most of them are terrific. However, from my experience with Chippery Cookies, I can tell you that the quality of the items were very high, the literature supporting the product was informative and attractive, and the end result of happy kids closed the deal for me.

If you are interested in learning more about Chippery Cookies, I recommend that you visit their website where you can see all the options available.

There are many ways to boost the sales of your cookie dough fundraising program. Here are just a few of them:

1. Let your sellers and supporters know ahead of time about the sale. Make sure they know how much their support is appreciated.
2. Create specific goals for the fundraiser. How much money needs to be raised? How many tubs does this equal? How many tubs per person will need to be sold?
3. Set a reasonable time limit for getting all the orders in from participants.
4. Offer prizes for participants who sell the mimimum amount.
5. Create a group challenge or prize program to motivate your sellers.
6. Take the catalogs to work.
7. If your organization is short the minimum order, the organization can fund the difference and sell them later.
8. Use extra cookie dough supply or buy extra to make cookies. Sell cookies at a bake sale, sports game, at school, or anywhere there are people! If your baking oven is near your selling table it’s even better — people can’t resist when they smell the warm aroma of cookies baking.

The cookie dough fundraising program provides full color catalogs to sell from. The group uses catalogs to take orders of the cookie dough, which comes in several varieties.