I was wondering has anybody ever worked for this company. I was thinking about applying but I don't have that much epierence in decorating. I really just want to know their "secrets" 
...Then I will report back here to CC...LOL..I was just thinking baout picking up a summer part time job. Any info would be great.
I don't know of anyone who has worked there but several people have said there cookies are horrible!! I'd like to know their decoarting secrets also and the icings they use!!
A neighbor won a cookies-by-design bouquet at our school carnival last weekend. From a distance, they looked nice, but up close, they were really not very attractive, and they were so huge and thick it looked like they'd be hard to eat.
I'm not a pro by any stretch, but I have made a few cookie bouquets in the last couple of months, and I think mine look much better! 
A couple of the teachers at school told me that mine looked better also 
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I don't have any information for you, just wanted to chime in with MTCW, LOL!
Laura.
ok...lol...i did see ome pf thier cookies at a bridal shower i went to and they were huge and thick but I didn't get to eat one. I might take my 3 yr.old there tomorrow and just observe and check it out. I want to try and flat dip my cookies I need to do for a baby shwoer. This will be my first cookies and also first cake for a big event such as this. Well I will let you know if the cookies are worth the 4 dollars they charge or what.
Ooooh JMCakes, I love the spy thing. But there must me an easier way to learn than actually getting a job!!! There are lots of great tutorial and books out there, and soon yours will look WAY better than cookies-by-design!!!
Have you seen Toba Garrett's "Creative Cookies"? Great for inspiration!
If I remember correctly they do not make the dough or icing at the store. It comes pre-made so you never know what ingredients they are using.
And I think you have to be able to decorate a cookie in 3-5 minutes how is that for pressure?
Don't worry they send you to Cookie University.
I went online and submitted for their catalogs..... 
for ideas!!! I got it last week....It doesn't specify what type of cookie or icing....but the closer you look at the picture the more you see I think its a type of crusting buttercream......it isn't royal...and if it is antonia needs to give them a few lessons in getting it smoother!!! It doesn't even give prices its jst a little book with all their bouquets in it! So you do get lots of ideas off of it! ....I just wish I could find the rose cutter they have!
I've been curious too...and I've heard they are not very tasty....I've stopped inside one before and the cookie is VERY VERY thick!!! They just look like they would be dry! But I guess those cookies are more for show...since half the time they arent wrapped.
OK is there a site to these people?
never mind found it...
Cookie university is just their training program. probally in one of thier coroprate offices. I wish there was such a thing... Cake university. You could go and walk out with a Major in Gumpaste and a Minor in perfect frosting. lol
I just checked out the cookiesbydesign website. Those cookies are not cheap!! Their website is www.cookiesbydesign.com.
Homemade has to be better and since your cookies are decorated with love, they have to be the best!
Leslie
Their cookies taste stale and dry..I got one when I was in the hospital.
I think they decorate their cookies using a computerized machine. That's how precise it is. 
I was just wondering about this and so I searched.... I LOVE their cookies! I've never had one taste bad - and they aren't hard to eat.... they're hard NOT to eat!!!
I'm wondering how they get their images on.... some are just so amazing. Like you can take some funky shaped thing and put mickey mouse on it and mickey looks so perfect.... I was wondering if they did some kind of FBCT technique or something.... it doens't look like frosting sheets to me..... and I REALLy don't believe that they hand piped some of the decorations.... One of the examples I'm trying to figure out is this: http://www.cookiesbydesign.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=D4 - disney basket - I couldn't figure out how to attach it....
Do you see how it's just kinda weird shapes and then the images look perfect on there? Anyone have any ideas on their techniques?[/img]
I have had their cookies on more than one occassion and I liked them!
When my son was born, someone sent us a cookie bouquet and someone at my work got one for his birthday..They are huge cookies, but they are so good!. Their icing is similar to royal icing.
Hope it's okay to post, if not feel free to delete.
I was wondering what type of icing they used as well, so I emailed themt of find out what was in the icing! Here's the ingredients:
Icing: Sugar, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening (Soybean and Cottonseed Oils), Corn Syrup, Corn Starch. Contains 2% or less of the following: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Vanilla, Mono- and Diglycerides (Emulsifier), Egg Whites with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (a whipping aid), Ammonium Alum, Modified Food Starch, Wheat Starch, Salt, Cellulose Gum, Gum Arabic, Dextrose, Artificial Flavoring, Sodium Benzoate (a Preservative), and Artificial Coloring ( may contain any or all of the following: US Certified Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, and Titanium Dioxide). 28g/cookie
Tina
They actually had this company featured on the foodnetwork show Uwrapped last year.The icing is a type of royal icing but very soft and pipable.They showed a lady piping the rose cookies.They have to go to the cookiesbydesign cookie university once they have purchased a franchise..(The owners that is) they later train the staff in the cookiesbydesign way...The also have to be able to pipe a cookie in about 2 minutes..no longer! They have some cookie cutters especially made for them but most are from Coppergifts.com.The have a machine that runs the dough through a bakery planer and it comes out the perfect thckness they require.The dough is a special recipe..they obviously wouldn't divulge that but it was from the founders grandma if I remember correctly. I looked into maybe buying a franchise and starting it here as there is absolutely nothing like that here in Canada..Calgary that is but I'm not sure if the public would pay $65.00 for a cookie bouquet.More research needed on my part and the franchises started at about $150,000 US for a basic small shop and they all have to be relatively the same size and all the company fixtures and designs.No creative controls plus you have to pay a percentage to the company etc which is standard for a franchise.All in all I love their designs.
I tried one of these cookies on a trip to San Francisco this week! I'd give it a 6 out of 10. The flavour was very vanilla, but chemical. I was more surprised by the icing technique. Not smooth at all! You could see the piped lines clearly filling in. Lazy! 
I bought some of the cookies for my husband. He loved them but then again he will eat anything. Somewhere I read that they did not make their dough or icing in house. Well come to find out they actually do. I was reading in the Dallas Morning News recently and they were hiring for the position of dough and icing maker. I actually called and they said that yes, they indeed needed someone to come in a few times during the week and make a large batch of cookie dough and icing. Color me suprised!!
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