PORTLAND, OR — Gourmet cookie company The Cookie Department has added three new keto-friendly flavors to its line of functional cookies: Champion Chip (chocolate chip), Cake Walk (birthday cake) and Mint Condition (double chocolate mint).
Consumers can indulge in these soft-baked treats while enjoying their benefits. Each product in the company’s Fully Functional line are keto-friendly, macro-friendly, non-GMO and low glycemic.
Since 2009, The Cookie Department has been crafting its all-natural recipes around flavor and function, a combination that’s grown increasingly important as consumers seek better-for-you products. The brand is focused on pairing classic flavors with beneficial ingredients like superfoods, probiotics and protein for products that are low-carb, low-sugar and gluten-free.
With so many restrictions to incorporate into each recipe, the road to success hasn’t been easy for founder Akiva Resnikoff.
It started when Resnikoff was sitting in a coffee shop, noticing all the patrons buying baked goods along with their coffee. A lightbulb moment hit: Could he create a deliciously caffeinated cookie? After more than sixty trial-and-error double chocolate coffee batches, he perfected the Awaken Baked cookie containing a full cup of coffee in each serving. This cookie would become the signature of The Cookie Department, which in 2019 began to take shape as one of America’s leading ketogenic cookie makers.
Resnikoff’s wife Elannah has had a long journey of healing from the debilitating effects of traumatic brain injuries. After numerous intense treatments, her doctors agreed that a ketogenic diet would decrease her inflammation and nerve pain, stabilize her blood sugar, and lift her brain fog.
Due to her keto diet, Elannah wasn’t able to indulge in her husband’s line of gourmet cookies, and there weren’t yet many keto-friendly sweets on the market. Resnikoff started baking her indulgent treats without the sugar, carbs or gluten. As the keto-friendly food space grew, the couple sampled nearly every keto cookie on the market but found none as satiating as the ones they had made themselves. Together, they transitioned the cookie line to focus solely on their favorite keto creations.
Today, The Cookie Department serves more than 15,000 unique monthly customers like Elannah with specialized dietary needs, including diabetics, epileptics, celiacs and the weight/carb-conscious. It doesn’t get much sweeter than that.
