“Try a cookie, and you will tell the rest.”
Victoria Harary, Creator, Coo Coo Kosher
What started with an invitation to bake some cookies from a restauranteur at Victoria Harary’s regular stop-off for a morning cup-of-joe, pummeled her on a fast-track journey to what is now, ‘the’ cookie company that has the culinary industry, friends and family-network alike, going ‘coo-coo’ over.
Coo Coo Kosher, ala Victoria, is designed and orchestrated to deliver cookies, anything but ‘regular,’ with an exciting combo of ‘crazy,’ cool, – all Kosher – ingredients.
Her cookies, each a whopping 4.5” in diameter, are packaged beautifully, stacked in see-thru jars, offering a peek into the array of six unique flavor choices such as, Lemon Loco and Red Velvet. Victoria’s personal favorite is her ‘Cotton Candy,’ cookie, serving up the sweet, traditional treat in outlandish fashion, with trimmings, and fun accessories, like jellybeans, frosting, and, of course, cotton candy! Each is prepared Kosher Parve. Cookie lovers will find the collection rounded out with surprise flavoring ‘spins,’ on traditional favorites gone ‘coo-coo,’ like Snickerdoodle, and Chocolate Chip. Even so, for Victoria, it’s not just about offering customers a Chocolate Chip cookie, it’s about, giving them, “the chocolate chip cookie.”
Put simply, Coo Coo Kosher rolls out palate-pleasing bakery items created with a blend of flavors found in desserts, but not necessarily - until now - in a cookie.
Culinary pastry arts and entrepreneurship go hand-in-hand for Victoria, who brings passion and laser-focus together in her unique brand.
Made from Victoria’s heart, she calls Coo Coo Kosher cookies: “baked goods for everyone and anyone, who wants to have a good cookie.”
Victoria, who carries her great-grandmother’s namesake, exudes the spirit of a consistent display of love through cooking, and making lasting memories.
From an early age, Victoria showed interest in the workings of the family kitchen, its center of love, commitment, and dedication. Her inspiration for Coo Coo Kosher, started humbly two short years ago, there, right in ‘Mama’s double-oven,’ where she baked, and baked some more, spending hours on each cookie, until she got it just right where she wanted it.
With her first year of schooling completed at the School of Kosher Culinary Arts in Brooklyn, and courses started at the prestigious Institute of Culinary Education in New York, was when Victoria started grabbing that morning cup of coffee at a nearby restaurant. When the owner learned she was studying pastry arts, he offered, and she accepted a very special invitation to bake some cookies for him to try, purchase, and offer his professional feedback. And the rest is her-story, with impressive, competitive stints as the head pastry chef for more than one five-star Kosher restaurant.
Her first time out, with her jars of cookies on the shelf that summer at a local, center-of-town favorite on the Jersey shore, near home, sold out within 24 hours. Since, orders quickly increased and by summer’s end, Victoria was baking and distributing 100 jars a week. Soon, Coo Coo Kosher was in neighboring towns, and clusters of Kosher stores in Brooklyn.
With rapid, welcomed high-demand for orders, mostly from ‘word of mouth,’ Victoria built a team and acquired industrial kitchen space, to take Coo Coo Kosher to the next level and beyond.
When she’s not baking, and planning her next strategic move for her company, Victoria, now living on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, enjoys, ‘…hanging out with family and friends.’