Custom Cookie Dough Boxes

Board, Coatings and Food Contact

We use folding board with a coating suited to chilled and moist conditions, and an inner barrier where the board will touch the dough directly. Food-contact grade board is available on request for the inner surface, which matters for scoop boxes and open trays where the dough sits against the card. For sleeves around a separate tub, the board does not touch the dough, so the main concern is moisture resistance on the outside.

If your dough is frozen rather than chilled, tell us. Frozen storage brings its own challenges, such as ice crystals and very cold handling, and the board and adhesive need to suit those conditions. p1 Frozen dessert lines use the same board as our cartons for frozen food, which are made for freezer handling.

Sizing Around Tubs and Portions

For sleeves, measure the tub's height and its diameter or dimensions at the top and bottom, because many tubs taper. The sleeve is cut to grip the tub without slipping off. For cartons, measure the portioned dough at its widest and tallest, and add space for any liner or tray.

Common sizes run from small single servings of around 100 g to sharing tubs of 500 g or more. Scoop boxes are sized to the scoop: a single scoop box is small and shallow, a double or triple scoop box is larger. If you sell several sizes, we can create a range with a consistent look across all of them.

Before ordering a full run, try a sleeve on a filled, chilled tub rather than an empty one at room temperature. Cold plastic contracts slightly, and a sleeve that fits snugly on a warm empty tub can feel loose once the tub has been in the fridge overnight. p2 The guide to measuring a product covers tapered tubs and lids.

Making Dough Look Irresistible in a Fridge

Chiller cabinets are bright, busy and cold-coloured. Warm, rich colours, such as caramel browns, chocolate tones and bright flavour accents, read clearly against white shelves and steel. Big, close-up photography of dough with visible chocolate chunks makes people hungry. A small window can show the real product, but make sure the window film suits chilled conditions.

Flavour names should be large and easy to read from a metre away, because shoppers scan fridges quickly. Put essential information such as ingredients, allergens, storage instructions and the use by date on the side or back, and leave a clear patch for date codes and price labels.

Shelf-ready trays can help too. If you supply retailers, a printed tray that holds six or twelve tubs can go straight into the chiller, saving staff from unpacking each pot. The tray front becomes a small billboard for your brand, and it keeps your flavours grouped together rather than scattered among other desserts. p2 Gift boxes of mini tubs usually go in a printed dessert box with a divider inside an insulated shipper.

Dessert Brands and Dough Bars

Dessert brands selling edible cookie dough through supermarkets, delis and farm shops use printed sleeves and cartons to meet retailer requirements and hold their own on the shelf. Dough bars and dessert cafes use scoop boxes and branded cups for counter service. Online dessert brands send gift boxes of mini tubs in insulated shippers. Bakeries that add edible dough to their menu often start with a simple printed sleeve over a standard tub.

Many dough brands launch with one or two flavours and grow from there, so a flexible design with a changeable flavour area is a sensible starting point.

Events and pop-ups are another outlet. A dough brand trading at a food market or a festival needs scoop boxes that can be stacked beside a portable freezer and handed over quickly, with the brand name big enough to be seen across a busy crowd.

Test the Sleeve on a Cold Tub, Not a Warm One

Dough packaging is judged in the fridge, so size it there. Fill a tub, chill it overnight and measure the diameter at the rim and the base once it is cold, because plastic contracts a little and a sleeve cut to a warm empty tub can feel loose on day two. Send those figures with the storage temperature and the number of flavours, and say if any dough is sold frozen, since frozen storage changes the board and the glue.

Leave an unvarnished patch for the date code on the artwork from the start; it is the detail most often added after a proof. The custom quote arrives by email within one working day, the minimum is set per job, and a plain printed sleeve starts from £0.25.

The free proof shows the pack flat with the information panels marked; approve it and production takes 4 to 7 working days, followed by free tracked delivery to UK mainland addresses. Brands that sell dough by the scoop beside baked cookies often order standard cookie boxes in the same print so both lines match on the counter.