Baked Goods from Dough-To-Go

Update Review, 2020 Tastings

I've reviewed Dough-2-Go before, but, I never actually reviewed their flagship product line.

The primary product that Dough-2-Go actually makes is cookies, and, cookie dough for you to bake off.  Cookies are available baked, baked and individually wrapped, as pre-portioned cookie dough or bulk cookie dough, in 1.33oz, 2oz, 3oz, and 4oz sizes, in about 30 varieties, *not* counting their seasonal or themed items, which are extensive.

Yes, this is where the company clearly pours their energy.  Want Chocolate Chip? They make classic Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip with Nuts, Milk Chocolate Chip, Milk Chocolate Chip with Nuts, Double Chocolate Chip, Double Chocolate Chip w/nuts, Mint Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, and Chocolate Chunk.  Want another kind of chip? Select from Macadamia Vanilla Chip, Vanilla Chip, or Butterscotch Chip.  Want nuts? Go for Orange Almond, Apricot Nut, Butter Pecan, Peanut Butter, 

Peanut Butter with Peanuts, Almond Coconut, or Triple Chocolate Walnut.  Spice?  Cinnamon Sugar (Snickerdoodle), Old Fashion Spice or Molasses.  Or do you want basics, like lemon, oatmeal raisin, sugar cookies, macaroons, etc?  Yup, they have them all.

And then there are the themed items, usually just the sugar cookies, but cut into shapes and decorated or dipped.  Christmas Trees, Easter Bunnys, Halloween Pumpkins, Autumn Leaves, Halloween Skeletons, Valentine's Hearts, Shamrocks, Spring Butterflys, Hunukkah Stars, Hunukkah Dreidels, Easter Eggs, Thanksgiving Turkeys, Summer Flowers, Christmas Gingerbread-man, etc, etc.   And seemingly random ones, like, um lions and penguins.

We tried several of the themed items, and, well, they did kinda look like what you'd find at a bake sale, if someone had a decently talented cookie decorator in the family.  And ... they tasted that way too.  Meh.

Spring Special: Sugar Sprinkle Butterfly Cookies.

These were a spring item, colorful butterflies.  I had to laugh as they somewhat looked like what you'd find at a bake sale, made by an actual student, so sparkly.

The tasted about like that too.  They were fine, sugar cookies covered in large colorful pearl sugar.  Hard cookies, kinda dry, not very buttery or special.  Just, cookies.

I wasn't impressed.

Winter Special: Snowman.

"Hand-decorated Snowman in chocolate. All butter cookie."

Next we had a butter cookie, elaborately decorated like a snowman.  I give them kudos for the cute white chocolate decorating job.

My little niece *adored* these, as she was going through a "snow-na" obsession at the time.  I thought they were ... ok.  Better than the sugar cookie but still not a very remarkable cookie.  I did appreciate that they were slightly soft, not rock solid, and the white chocolate was tasty at least.

Lemonsnap.

Finally, a decent cookie from Dough-to-go.

Now, granted, it wasn't a flavor I actually like (lemon), but the cookie was quite soft, the texture was right, and I liked the sweetness of the sugar on top.  These almost grew on me.

Original Review March 2018

I know, it isn't quite fair for me to review products that are only available wholesale and through food service distributors, but, in many cases, you find these products all around town at cafes and coffee shops, you likely just don't know it.

"Dough-to-Go is a company that specializes in the manufacture of high quality raw dough and ready to serve bakery products.  Dough-to-Go strives to make products “like you would make yourself, if you had the time.” 

Well, I think Dough-to-Go achieved their goal.  The products did indeed seem like what I'd make.  They certainly weren't the quality of a real bakery.

I don't recommend.

Sweet Rolls

Dough-to-Go makes two types of sweet rolls: sticky buns and basic cinnamon rolls.  I was only able to try the cinnamon rolls.  They didn't inspire me to seek out the sticky buns, even though those are more up my alley. 

Cinnamon Raisin Rolls.

"Morning rolls with cinnamon, raisins and sweet sugar glaze."

These looked great!  Huge cinnamon rolls.  Tons of icing.

But ... they weren't very good.  Dried out.  Even the very very center of the roll wasn't moist.  They weren't gooey.  They weren't flavorful.  The icing was hard.

Just, not good.

Scones

Scones are available baked and frozen, or as raw dough that you bake off.  They come in 8 flavors, mostly fruity.

I was able to try all 4 flavors of their "Chunky Fruit Scones".

They also were not good.

Apple Cinnamon Raisin.

The apple cinnamon raisin were the worst of the bunch.

The scone was just so dry.  No flavor to the base.  Not good.

Cranberry.

The cranberry had good pops of flavor from the cranberries, but, the base scone was again dry and flavorless.

Mixed Berry.

The mixed berry were the best of the bunch, they at least had a lot of fruit in them, but, the base scone just isn't good.

Blueberry.

Blueberry were about the same as the mixed berry, lots of fruit, but, meh to the scone.