Real Treat cookies will be great for a minimum of 4 months, and all packages are stamped with a “best if enjoyed by date”. Our organic certification means we do not use preservatives of any kind, but we have worked hard to source packaging that will keep them fresh for a good long while after they’ve been packaged. Of course, once you break the seal on the bag they are like any cookies you would make at home and, depending on your climate, will be best if enjoyed within a week or two. But who are we kidding… they won’t last that long, will they?

Oh yes, they freeze very well for a year, or thereabouts.

We are always looking for new retail, hospitality, and gift partners! Please complete the form on our Wholesale Partner page and tell us about your business. A member of our team will provide you with all the info you need to get our cookies in the mouths of your customers ASAP.

We’d like to tell you it’s because we operate from a secret location to protect ourselves from espionage… But the truth is our very small (but mighty!) commercial space just isn’t set up to welcome drop-in customers or unscheduled guests. If you would like to schedule a meeting with a member of the team please send us a note via the form on our Contact page, or give us a call. We do not sell cookies directly to customers from this location. If you live in our home town of Cochrane place your order on the website and select the “I’m local!” shipping option and we’ll deliver them to you for free.

Contrary to some myths you may have heard, the regulations around organic certification in Canada, the EU, and and USA are quite strict. In order to be permitted to make the organic claim, and print the organic seal on packaging, the products and facility are inspected annually by an accredited certification firm (EcoCert, in our case). We are required to meet strict requirements including:

• All the ingredients we use are certified organic, which means they are also GMO-free
• Any ingredients that cannot be certified organic, such as salt and baking soda, are free of chemical inputs like bleach, anti-clumping agents, and aluminum, to name just a few.
• Non-certified organic ingredients cannot make up any more than 5% of the total product. This doesn’t mean we can fill that 5% with whatever we want, by the way. Every gram of anything that goes into our products must meet very strict requirements for irradiation and chemical composition.
• We are required to use non-toxic cleaning products, even on the floors.
• Our books are audited to ensure we didn’t just run out to the local grocery store for a bag of non-organic "Bobbin Good" when we ran a bit short on flour one day.

If you would like to see a copy of our organic certification please let us know. We are very proud to have ours and are happy to show it off!

We think so. Put it this way, every ingredient in our cookies (except for the salt and baking soda) started off as a plant. Flour comes from wheat, sugar from sugar cane, chocolate from cocoa beans… even the cow that made the cream ate plants. If those plants were treated with chemicals (i.e. the kind that are designed to kill weeds and or pests) there is a good chance some of those chemicals stayed with the product through processing. So, yeah, if you are going to eat an organic salad you should think about cookies the same way.

Well, although that sounds like a delicious way to try all our flavours in one neat little package, in reality that will backfire spectacularly. You’d end up with a lemon cookie that tastes like a smoked pecan (not good). If you would like to try a collection of our flavours without making the full-size package commitment, why not try a bundle of our Snack-Packs?

Yes, and YES! We currently have one gluten-free cookie in our Real Treat Pantry line that is available year-round, and another in our Limited Edition Holiday line that is available October-December.

We have taken a solemn vow never to make a cookie that tastes like a consolation prize. All our gluten-free options are delicious enough to satisfy even the most die-hard gluten-friendly cookie monsters.

No. Though we do our very best to make our gluten-free cookies using gluten-free-friendly practices (like making and packaging them on a dedicated day, using sterilized equipment), ours is not a celiac-safe certified kitchen. Those with serious sensitivities to gluten are encouraged to proceed with caution.

You bet. Our Double Dark Chocolate with a Twist (Top Shelf), Brown Sugar Shortbread (Pantry), Spiced Pecan Shortbread (Holiday) are all egg-free, as are both varieties of our Drinking Chocolate.

Please feel free to send us a note and we will do our best to answer them.