I started My Cookie Dough in April 2021 as a Marketing Assistant before working up to the Content Creator role later in the year which I currently love! I’ve always been a creative person and went to Bath Spa University to study Creative Media Practice in hopes of making it into the media industry. Once I graduated, I worked in the NHS as a Communications Officer just as the pandemic hit so it was pretty intensive, but it gave me lots of experience in content creation in a short amount of time!
My favourite thing about my job would be sharing amazing products and brand messages with our audience in fun and creative ways on social media. Creating fun TikToks to trending sounds that get seen by a million people feels really rewarding and is crazy to see something I filmed and edited shared with such a large audience!
I would say just have a go at everything you can and get stuck in! Any type of experience is amazing for creative growth whether it be a small project set up by your friends where you can design social media assets, or just filming a fun video to test out your own abilities – it all helps in expanding your skill set and experience. At the end of the day, it’s a super exciting industry to get into and it allows you to explore your talents and create fun and engaging content!
My favourite project to date has been both years of The Big Feastival! Big Feastival is a food festival held over 3 days at Alex James’ farm in Oxfordshire, where My Cookie Dough has had a pop-up stand for the past few years. My job was to create a load of content to document the unique foodie creations we made, the excitement of customers trying the product for the first time and the fun atmosphere of the amazing team that made the event so special! I got to meet a lot of amazing people and learn so many new skills, whilst creating images and highlight reels for social media to share the excitement with our followers.
My day-to-day schedule can change so much with upcoming NPD launches, store openings and social media content requirements! I usually visit the stores a few times a month for shoot days and then spend lots of my time with my headphones in, lo-fi music on, and my dog asleep next to me whilst I edit the content that I shot. It’s easy to get lost in an ‘editing hole’ so I always check in with the Marketing team to ensure all upcoming deadlines and projects are on schedule and prioritise my workload. I’m always planning the next shoot and looking to the future since NPD is always many months in the future – we’re already thinking about Easter products and beyond!
Oooooh good question, I would have to say a red velvet cupcake with icing and sprinkles all over! I love all things cute and colourful, am a little immature and a bit out there – but overall pretty sweet!
The real stand-out product for me would be the Boba Sugar Boba Cookie Dough stack we created for the London pop-up store! If anyone knows me they would know my love of bubble tea, and it was the perfect match of bubble tea and our cookie dough! I still dream about it now…
My biggest inspiration would have to be the amazing store managers who I get to meet, they are all such hard workers and always get involved in the crazy NPD and content ideas that are thrown at them! Each one cares for their team in the best way and everyone is so lovely every time we meet them.
]]>These cake pops are fun, delicious and super easy to make. They are great for parties, kids or just using up leftover cookie dough. Feel free to get creative and try utilising different toppings like different kinds of chocolate, sprinkles, chopped nuts, sweets, edible glitter and more! We love seeing you recreating our recipes; if you give them a go be sure to share a picture and tag us @mycookiedough!
Ingredients and equipment:
2x MCD cookie dough of your choice
candy melts of your choice
cake pop sticks
Method:
Freeze for 5 minutes.
Who doesn’t love pancakes? The perfect breakfast, lunch, brunch or treat for any time of day! These fluffy american style pancakes are packed full of chocolate chip cookie dough chunks. They are guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser. We love stacking them high and serving them up with lashings of maple syrup and maybe even some bacon, but top them however you wish.
Ingredients:
130 g plain flour
30 g sugar
2 g baking powder
3 g bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
1 egg
130 g milk
45 g melted butter
Vanilla extract
Juice from 1/2 lemon
1 My Cookie Dough milk chocolate chip dough puck
Method:
Try these outrageously delicious cookie dough cinnamon rolls. Topped with cream cheese icing, they are the perfect treat to impress friends or family. This recipe adds a fun twist to a classic bun, with warming cinnamon and chunks of soft chocolate chip cookie dough, they are scrumptious served warm or cold. Sticky, fluffy and addictive - enjoy!
Ingredients:
For the dough:
90 g butter
250 ml milk
7 g dried yeast
50 g caster sugar
1/2 tsp salt
450 g bread flour (plain flour works as well)
For the filling:
2x MCD milk chocolate cookie dough
60 g butter, softened
100 g soft brown sugar
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
For the glaze:
200 g cream cheese
50 g butter
100 g icing sugar
lemon juice, to taste
Method:
Ever wondered who comes up with the delicious stacks, shakes doughs and cookies at My Cookie Dough? We sat down with My Cookie Dough product developer Marko to find out a bit more about his job, his day to day life and his favourite products and desserts.
I started baking when I was younger and my love for food just got bigger as I got older. I realised working in food was definitely something I wanted to do, but after some pretty intense jobs being a chef, I thought that that might not be the path for me. Thankfully, a job opportunity at MCD led me on a path to become a new product developer, and I’m adamant on progressing in this type of role.
My two favourite things are the work environment, and the creative freedom I have. The corporate team, although small, is so fun to work with, and everyone is friendly and helpful. When it comes to product developing, I love that I can express myself in anything I do, and the team not only loving my creations, but praising me for them too, makes me super proud of myself.
I would say my parents are my biggest inspiration. Both of them come from small towns and definitely not from money. They have succeeded in their careers, they brought up two children, they are always there for me and have helped me with anything I needed all my life.
This is actually an evil question to ask a person who’s such a foodie, but I think I would have to choose a black forest cake as my answer. I’m a classic, but not for everyone; fruity yet mysterious; fluffy yet rich. Rich in humour, not the other rich.
Something new and very exciting that’s hitting our stores soon are new stacks inspired by classic treats and made extra indulgent our UK customers will love. As far as 2023 products go, I’ll leave it a mystery for a little while longer, but definitely expect good things to come.
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