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Using Promotional Gourmet Cookies as Tradeshow Food Gifts

Using Promotional Gourmet Cookies as Trade Show Food Gifts

There are numerous items you can use at a trade show to get attendees in your booth. However, gourmet chocolate chip cookies as trade show food gifts are the perfect draw. Your ability to get people to your booth is much better if you use food gifts rather than printed promotional items. Let’s face it, people love to eat.

Stemming from trade show experience right around mid-morning and late afternoon, I am looking for the booths that have food in them. Gourmet chocolate chip cookies, fresh baked and cello sealed with your custom full color logo on the wrapper will attract potential visitors to your booth, and give them a reason to stick around if you keep them out on the table while you talk. Of course your logo is front and center on the full color wrapper, and when your potential clients refer others to your booth for more cookies, this will give you the opportunity to talk to them about who you are and what you do. You can always give the interested parties promotional material once you have had the chance to talk with them and gauge their interest. The cookies get them to the booth, your product and your ideas are what get them to stay or buy.

Fresh baked cello sealed cookies are one way to attract customer at your trade show booth, but these same gourmet cookies can be used for multiple types of events. Another idea would be to take a stack of chocolate chip cookies and include them in a striped bag with matching bow. Of course you should also have your own full color label on the front of these bags to keep your company top of mind. They can be used to give to your better clients that come by the booth, instead of the individually wrapped cookies. These gift bags can also be great for getting past the gate keeper on sales calls, gift baskets, customer appreciation gifts and more. There are very few promotional cookie companies out there, so finding one through your local corporate gift distributor will be where you will find one. Then all you need to do is decide how you want to fill your bag, choose your bag color and matching bow and give them your custom 4 color art so they can put together an awesome presentation for you to give out.
About the Author

Najla Furgason founded Creative Expressions of Tampa Bay, Inc in 1995. What started out as a brick and mortar gift shop has turned in to a network of 10 niche web shoppes featuring high-end decorated corporate gifts, chocolates and other food related items, under the DBA of CEShoppes. CEShoppes is a women owned business and is a certified member of WBENC. Najla has served two separate terms on the Board of Directors for the Promotional Products Association of Florida, one term as an advisory board member for the ASI Show! In 2008, Creative Expressions of Tampa Bay, Inc., dba CEShoppes was named one of the top 500 emerging businesses in America by Diversity Business.com

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Cookie Cutters: 4000 Years In The Making

At some point in our history some one thought that circles were just too boring a shape for all cookies. Cookie cutters were the answer, but how did they evolve? Here are just a few bits of info on the history of these famous kitchen tools for your enjoyment.

The modern day cookie cutter was not invented by one individual, but rather has evolved over time. In fact, you can go back as early as 2000 B.C. and find Egyptian ceramic or wooden baking molds that were used to bake up biscuits or cakes. Even back then they yearned for a bit more creativity, though pink frosting and rainbow sprinkles were still a ways off!

Fast forward to the 16th century and we see the popularity of the gingerbread man start to grow. written history tells us about the first gingerbread cookies appearing in Queen Elizabeth I’s court in England. It appears she had these cookies made as small, edible replicas of some of her more extinguished guests. Off with their heads! (and arms and legs… and gumdrop buttons.) As these gingerbread cookies started to become popular requests from bake shops in the 17th century, shops started using metal cutters to expedite the process of producing them.

As Europeans migrated to America, so did some of their trends and customs, including the gingerbread man cookies and the cutters used to make them. It wasn’t long before American metal workers started producing the cutters (in several shapes and sizes) and making them available to the general public. By the 19th century tin cookie cutters were being sold from shops and peddlers.

By the mid 1800’s commercial machinery had developed in both the United States and Europe to the point that all sorts of products were moved from being made by hand to produced in factories. By the turn of the century many businesses were creating and distributing cookie cutters in this way, offering them in catalogs, advertising them, and even importing them from abroad.

While tin had been the main material for producing cookie cutters, they started being created from other materials as they became more available. During the mid 1900’s we saw aluminum and plastic being used.

Cookie cutters continued to grow in popularity as more shapes were created. During the 1970’s and into the 1980’s more women became domestic and worked on their own crafts at home, including decorated cookies. During this era we also witnessed an increase in spendable income, allowing people to spend more on such hobbies. As with many other products, there was a trend during the last quarter of the century to make manufacturing less expensive, and more cookie cutters were being manufactured in the likes of Malaysia, China, and other countries. However, cookie cutter production somehow survived being moved completely out of country and there are still a good number of cutters being made in the United States.

Now you can find cookie cutters in just about any shape or size. Copper is now a commonly used material for cookie cutters, but plastic and tin are still the most commonly found. If you can’t find a particular shape, there are cookie cutter companies that will create a custom shape for you. Likewise, you can buy your own kit to design and create your own cookie cutter.

While cookie cutters are being bought for the obvious purpose of cutting out sugar cookies, there is also a lot of people that search for, bid on, and buy cookies simply to collect them. There is even an official Cookie Cutter Collectors Club (CCCC) that meets regularly and has a big following. There are at least a couple of Cookie Cutter Museums, and enthusiasts even enjoy a “National Cookie Cutter Week” (started by the CCCC) during the first week of December. Of course this marks the beginning of the biggest time of the year for decorating cookies: the Christmas season. Even if you don’t care for the holiday, who can resist biting into a yellow frosted star cookie?

About the Author

This information was written by Karen and Mike of Karen’s Cookies – http://www.karenscookies.net .
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Disney Cookie Jar

Disney cookie jar is one of the most admired categories for collectors of cookie jars. Disney cookie jar have further sub-categorized as vintage and antique jars, Mass-produced jars. Disney cookie jar are comes in small, large and medium size and the number of jars are from 150 to 350 pieces. Disney cookie jar are available in many cartoon characters as many peoples love to have jars, cups, mugs and trays in the design of cartoon characters. The cartoon characters accessible and form the Disney cookie jars are: Donald Duck, Disney Store Exclusives, Disney Limited Editions, Castles Dumbo Cookie Jars, Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, teddy bear and many more cartoon characters. Majority of kids love to have Disney cookie jar as they all comes in exciting and your favorite cartoon characters.
Why should I purchase a Disney cookie jar:

As we know that the Disney cookie jar is specially design for the insertion of your favorite cookies. That is a fact each and every home having cookies jars while you back cookies your own recipe or purchase your well-liked cookies from shops then you have to need a cookie jar to store the cookies, and the best choice for selecting a cookie jar is Disney cookie jar, as children enjoy the cookies with the beautiful and pretty cartoon character shapes. When you consider to purchase or collect verity of Disney cookie jars then your family and specially kids will so happy and the will be a sort of happiness to bring pretty smile on their face. It is be a decorate pieces for your kitchen and dinner table.
Features of Disney cookie jar:

Disney cookie jar comes in verity of designs. These designs are specially attract the kids. The size, quality, design, themes and color are varies. Each and every design has its own particular usage. When you are going to purchase a Disney cookie jar keep it mind that where you will use it, you are purchasing it for kids for guests, then select the design according to these points. If you are purchasing it for kids so the Disney cookie jar must be similar to a cartoon character and if you are selecting it for your guests for cookies serving purpose then choose a sober and cute Disney cookie jar.
Some informative points for the Disney cookie jar collectors:

If you are interested to be a Disney cookie jar collector, you must be informed about each and every type of Disney cookie jar, its quality, price, design, colors, style and up to date Disney cookie jars. It is so easy to collect these jars just having information about the Disney cookie jar
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Old River Road Monarch Butterfly Shape Cookie Cutter Reviews

The Old River Road Monarch Butterfly Cookie Cutter is an attractive and well built cookie cutter. The cutter is made of 100 % copper; it has a solid lip and measures an inch deep. Sturdy and intricate, this cutter is made to be used and made to last! Old River Road Cookie Cutters are heirloom quality (and sure to become one of your family’s most cherished possessions). Holidays, birthdays and other times that we gather round one another are important times, times when we celebrate our lives, our special relationships; they are times when we remember days-gone-by … and create new memories. Bring it all together in the kitchen, year after year, from one generation to the next, with Old River Road Cookie Cutters. With these premium cutters your holiday (and other special occasion) joy and laughter will be remembered and will continue on – your children will remember their childhood while creating memories with their own children, while using the family’s Old River Road Cutters. These premium cutters have been featured in Bon Appetit, Country Living, Victoria, Southern Living, Coastal Living, and were selected by House Beautiful as a “must have for the holiday season” on Good Morning America. Hand wash with warm soapy water; dishwasher is not recommended. Hand made in India by Old River Road – “From our hands to yours …” and from your hands to the next.

Technical Details

-Heirloom quality cookie cutter
-Made of 100 % copper
-Sturdy and intricate, this cutter is made to be used and made to last
-Hand made in India by Old River Road
-Hand wash with warm soapy water; dishwasher is not recommended

Customer Reviews

“LARGE cookie cutter”
By Lisa (Hartford CT)
I just looked at the shape and did not realize how large these were. Very high quality, and all of the different shapes available are awesome here. I have mine out/displayed in the kitchen as it is quite pretty, but beware these cutters are for LARGE cookies and if you are baking to a certain cookie count you’ll be busy. (But no cookie eaters have voiced complaint about largeness).

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Mammy cookie jars…do you find them offensive?

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Some people are offended by EVERYTHING.
Did you ever see the George Lopez show where some Caucasian guy had a statue of a Mexican man with the big hat? That old style? George Lopez made all sorts of jokes about it being offensive racially and said that he was going to get a stature of a white guy pointing fingers. It was hilarious.

It is not like the Mammy Jar had a CHAIN around her NECK and was in the pose of picking cotton. I wonder if the Mrs. Butterworth bottle offends her, too. (The syrup is not WHITE and the lady is clear therefore looks NOT WHITE)

I didn’t know what you were talking about with Mammy Cookie Jar… until I saw the link. Thank you.
I feel that it is not Al Jolsen… it is rather antique looking.
Did she make them throw it away or put it away, I wonder? I want to see that episode, now. That is intriguing. So did they replace it with the Pillsbury Dough Boy? Can’t get much whiter than that.

It reminds me of Gone With The Wind.

Good question, too.