Dough-Eyed: Cookies and Controversy from My Dough Girl in Salt Lake City, Utah
Friday, August 13, 2010 
Which would you like first? The good news or the bad news?
The good news: My Dough Girl Cookies, a bakery in Salt Lake City, makes amazingly delicious cookies. I mean, like, really good. Fat, chewy, buttery, and flavorful morsels, sweetly packaged in the cutest retro sleeves. I recently had the good fortune to try several when SLC-based Cake Gumshoes Rob and Carol came to Seattle for a visit and brought me four specimens for me and Mr. Spy to sample.
We tried the "Lilly" (lemon sugar cookie with lemonheads and lemon glaze), which was bright and sunny and -- surprise, crunchy!--from the addition of sweet-sour lemonhead candies, the "Sandy" (the special flavor of the month, with macadamia nuts, zucchini, and milk chocolate), which was an unlikely, but oddly addictive combination--
--as well as a rich, filled chocolate cookie, and what I think may have been the "Betty" (oatmeal cookie with fruit bits), which was moist, buttery, and not at all as healthy-tasting as it may sound. In a good way.
The bad news: My Dough Girl Cookies won't exist for much longer. You see, one chubby little white guy doesn't like this Utah-based bakery's name very much at all--the Pillsbury Dough Boy. As it turns out, owner Tami Cromar recently received a cease and disist" order from General Mills, saying that she'd better change the name of her bakery. According to The Salt Lake Tribune,
The national company, which owns Pillsbury, said the name is too similar to its iconic Dough Boy character and represents trademark infringement. The letter also suggests that because My Dough Girl sells frozen take-and-bake cookie dough — just like Pillsbury —the Utah product could tarnish the company’s reputation.
Rather than fight, Cromar has decided to comply with the request, which includes a gag order that forbids her to talk to news media. She referred calls and text messages from The Salt Lake Tribune to her attorney, Catherine Lake. Calls to Lake’s office also weren’t returned.
But don't despair, because there's more good news: Although the name will change, the cookies will not. As the article goes on to say, 
"I have to stick to baking so cookies can still be a part of all our futures,” Cromar wrote earlier this week. “ If the Dough Girl fights, there will be no cookies."
And that would be seriously bad news.
Whatever you want to call them, you can find 'em at 770 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, Utah; online here.
Reader Comments (14)
Those cookies look delicious. I love big, yummy cookies with a surprise inside of them.
Oh, no! That's another reason I hate mass-producing big companies. They take over everything. And never leave room for the smaller but WAY more talented manufacturers like dough girl!
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Ridiculous. Tarnish their reputation? Like anyone is going to confuse The Dough Girl's wonderful cookies with their processed, tastes-like-cardboard-with-fake-chocolate junk.
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