Convenience Stores

Need some fresh bakery ideas for convenience stores? With innovative bakery solutions from CraftMark Bakery, it’s time to cook up some new possibilities to offer your on-the-go customers.

Fresh Bakery Ideas for Convenience Stores — For Every Daypart.

Serve exciting new fresh baked goods and a range of sweet and savory snacks, baked on demand. CraftMark Bakery has all your dayparts covered — from breakfast to late night snacking — with our frozen cookie dough, individually wrapped cookies, and irresistible cream cheese filled Bagel Dots™.

Frozen Cookie Dough for Convenience Stores

Everyone loves cookies, and all the better if they are still warm from the oven. CraftMark’s frozen, pre-portioned cookie dough is a convenient way to make delicious fresh baked cookies in your stores. Just place the pre-portioned frozen cookies dough nuggets on a sheet pan, bake and merchandise in your bakery case. Or pre-package fresh baked cookies in bags or clamshells that consumers can enjoy at home.

Our frozen cookie dough portfolio includes the following:

  • Clean label – no artificial flavors or colors

  • Homemade appearance

  • Best-selling flavors and sizes

Individually Wrapped Cookies for Convenience Stores

Need an even easier option to keep your cookie lovers satisfied? Let CraftMark do the baking for you. Our new, state-of-the art pre-baked cookie manufacturing line can produce individually wrapped cookies as well as bulk packed cookies to give you that “fresh baked” appearance without the work of fresh baking.

Simply thaw the desired quantity of our soft and scrumptious cookies for a grab-and-go snack. Let us help you create a thaw and serve cookie line for your convenience store brand.

Hot Consumer Cookie Trends

  • Cookies are convenient, portable and sharable¹

  • 94% of U.S. households eat cookies with 77% of those consumers eating cookies weekly¹

  • The cookie category is expected to be on an upward trend through 2026¹

  • Cookies continue to be a popular snack with sales outpacing other sweet categories including ice cream, snack bars and confectionary¹

  • Men aged 18-54 are the most likely to be daily cookie eaters¹

Handheld Stuffed Treats for Convenience Stores: Bagel Dots

Bagel Dots™ — The Hole Bagel in One Bite!

According to expert trend watchers, breakfast traffic is back to pre-pandemic levels. ³ But are you serving the hot and cheesy breakfast snacks your customers are craving?

Bagel DotsTM are a convenient, delicious, and easy-to-devour breakfast treat that is also suitable for all-day snacking. These delightful handheld stuffed bagel treats are filled with cream cheese in your choice of tempting flavor varieties – no fuss and no mess!

Just heat, pre-package in small bags or clamshells, and place under a warmer with your other breakfast and snack foods. Easy to eat in the car, they are an unforgettable favorite that will have your customers stopping in just to get more!

Bakery Ideas for Convenience Stores

Choose from these favorite varieties, or inquire about special options for high-volume orders:

  • Everything Bagel Dots™ Stuffed with Cream Cheese

  • Plain Bagel Dots™ Stuffed with Cream Cheese

  • Plain Bagel Dots™ Stuffed with Strawberry Cream Cheese

Bagel Snacking Trends for Convenience Stores

  • The Bagel category continues to grow, up +40% vs. 2019 ²

  • Convenient, grab-and-go breakfast items are more important than ever in meeting consumers’ needs for filling and fast foods

  • Consumption of snacks remains high with nearly 82% of consumers snacking in the afternoon. ⁴

Your High-Volume Convenience Store Bakery Suppliers

We aren’t ordinary convenience store baked goods suppliers — CraftMark Bakery has all your dayparts covered, from early morning breakfast bites to crave-able late night snacks.

Whether you are interested in fully baked individually wrapped cookies, place-and-bake frozen cookie dough, or our irresistible Bagel Dots, we’d love to connect and help you bring innovative new baked goods to your on-the-go consumers.

Fill out the form to learn more about how CraftMark Bakery can be your bakery partner to produce packaged sweet and savory snacks and baked goods for your Convenience Store brand, and download the PDF brochure here.

¹ Mintel 2021 Cookie Report   ² IRI, December 2021 ³ NPD Group, January 2022  ⁴ Mintel: What America Eats, February 2021