We were lucky to catch up with Samantha + Madeline Davidoff recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Samantha + Madeline, thanks for joining us today. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.

We had always dreamed of going into business together. We finally made that dream come to life when we launched C.B. Dough in early 2020. We started brainstorming ideas back in 2019 to come up with some sort of business venture that we could get into together. After both working for companies with ideals we didn’t agree with, we had a goal of going out on our own and creating something unique while building a positive and uplifting work environment. With Maddy’s experience as a chef, she was ready and able to create any food product we thought of. And my (Sammy’s) past marketing and PR experience had us leaning towards something press worthy, trendy, and specifically something pretty new to the market. Once we thought of the initial product idea, ready to bake CBD infused cookie dough, we knew this could be something amazing. The idea of a delicious dessert that also has so many healing and wellness effects, was what got us excited to create the ultimate self care experience.

Samantha + Madeline, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

We fell in love with the idea of CBD in a delicious food product as we were trying to figure out what food comforts us the most, and a chocolate chip cookie is an all time favorite. But truly any freshly baked desserts are always comforting to us.and I’m sure many others. I (Sammy) have also been a big fan of CBD since I started using it to help me sleep or with anxiety. The combination of a comforting, warm, decadent dessert with the calming effects of CBD was just something we had never heard of or seen before. We knew this was a game changer because we have all discovered now, more than ever, how important self care is and we wanted to create something within that space.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

As I mentioned before, we started our brand with the refrigerated ready to bake CBD infused cookie dough. After a while we realized this product, although delicious and loved by many, was more difficult to ship long distances especially when the summer months came around. So we decided to expand our brand and developed a brownie and blondie baking mix. While they are also delicious and unique as well, the mixes have the added benefit of being shelf stable and more affordable.

Okay – so how did you figure out the manufacturing part? Did you have prior experience?

Yes, we manufacture our products. We work out of a commissary kitchen in Denver to produce and package all of our products. We did not know how to make these products before getting into business together, although Maddy had plenty of experience creating and testing recipes. It still took us some time to get the recipe exactly how we wanted it and after a couple months we had our perfect chocolate chip cookie created (The O.G). We can’t complain about the few months we spent testing different CBD cookie recipes, not only because they were all so delicious but we probably slept the best we ever have!

Contact Info:

• Website: cbdoughcookies.com
• Instagram: c.b.dough
• Facebook: Facebook.com/c.b.dough
• Twitter: cb_dough
• Other: TikTok: c.b.dough

Image Credits
Bubba Sellars