Credit: Submitted Photo
Credit: Submitted Photo
The restaurant is expected to offer the following cookies:
- Iced Lemon Drop
- Lemon Poundcake
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Banana Pudding
A launch date is still to be announced.
Davis Cookie Collection has a brick-and-mortar location at 4926 Reading Road in Cincinnati offering a wide variety of cookies, ice cream and milkshakes. They also have a build-your-own cookie station where customer can choose their own toppings to be added to the dough.
“It started in 2013 while I was a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati,” Davis said. “At the time, I was studying social work and it was really stressful, so I used baking as an outlet.”
Credit: Submitted Photo
Credit: Submitted Photo
She would bake cookies and take them to her job at UC Medical Center, as well as giving some to her husband to take to his job at the Cincinnati Fire Department. After receiving great reviews, she decided to give baking a try.
“I always wanted to be an entrepreneur because I come from a family that once owned (Club Safari), a restaurant and a club combined in downtown Cincinnati,” Davis said. “I wasn’t born then, but just hearing the stories inspired me that I could also do it.”
Club Safari served southern-style meals and desserts, in addition to offering live entertainment from artists like Little Richard, BB King and Aretha Franklin.
“I use a lot of the same recipe tricks and secret ingredients that they used in my cookies,” Davis said. “I’m really big on making them from scratch, so customers get that homemade taste.”
When Davis Cookie Collection first started, they were baking 12 cookies at a time in a condo. As their business grew, they transitioned to Findlay Kitchen where they could bake 200 cookies at a time.
After spending three years perfecting their craft and learning the ins and outs of cooking in a commercial kitchen, they opened a brick-and-mortar in 2020.
Davis Cookie Collection is also in the wholesale cookie dough business and has a cookie food truck available for events.
“We have been looking for ways to expand outside of Cincinnati and I think we definitely want to continue expanding in Dayton,” Davis said.
Partnering with Mz. Jade’s Soul Food in Dayton’s Wright-Dunbar District is special for Davis because her father’s side of the family lives in Dayton and her late-grandmother lived on West Third Street, about a block from the food hall.
“It’s not just baking a cookie,” Davis said. “It’s really to make a difference in the community.”
They pride themselves on giving customers a “bite into a better day” and being an example to aspiring entrepreneurs, their employees and three children.
For more information, visit daviscookiecollection.com or the business’s Facebook or Instagram pages (@daviscookiecollection).
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