Cookies!!!

January 2, 2006 - 7:22 PM by


As part of the quest to fill up Hannuka vacation time, we busied ourselves with fun and interesting adventures and outings this week. A trip to the mall to check out the traveling Press Photos of the Year, treks to the playground, a train ride to Aunt Babe and Uncle Irving’s for spaghetti lunch and TELEVISION !!! (we don’t have one) and a playdate with not one but two of Raphael’s female classmates.

On the playdate, a note: When they say “three’s a crowd”, believe it.

For exactly 22.3 minutes the three yukked it up, enjoying each other’s company immensely. Then, everything went potty.

Raphael’s Mom? She insulted me
Raphael’s Mom? He yelled at me
Stop looking at me
Don’t touch me
Go away!
Ouch!

There were tears, declarations of never playing with each other again and a breakdown into physical assault just as the mothers showed up to take their darlings home.

A very right decision on the excursion front, on the other hand, was yesterday’s trip to the Roladin Cookie Factory in Kadima, organized by Amit Women. Joined by friends Steve & Natasha, their twin, 8-year-old boys and about 30 fellow tour participants, we eyeballed the baking floor through a 2nd story, glass window, viewed a mouth-watering film about the delights Roladin produces and then did a hands-on with the kids rolling chocolate mousse balls in sprinkles and coconut, cutting hearts, stars and rounds from butter cookie dough, dousing chocolate crinkles in powdered sugar and then inhaling the magnificent aroma as the goodies baked.

In business since 1987, Roladin is a mid to upper tier bakery supplying cakes, cookies, bread, quiche, mini-mousse desserts, and during Hannuka donuts, to 19 shops in Israel. Their “gimmick” is that each and every one of the thousands of delicacies shipped out each day is made by hand. There are literally, no machines.

The factory offers year-round tours and my advice is to GO GO GO! It’s more than worth the NIS40 for the fun and as an added bonus, parents get complimentary coffee – the good stuff: espresso/latte, etc. – after the tour and kids get a bag of their own, personal-baked loot to enjoy later. Watch out when the sugar high kicks in!

Roladin: 09-899-1001

Stop by the Drive Thru…Always open, coffee’s always hot…

Tags: • Category: Food, General 

Comments

2 Comments on Cookies!!!

  1. debbie on Mon, Jul 20th 2009 5:46 PM

    2. Having heard such great reports from friends who have visited, we have booked to take threee grandchildren ages ranging from 5-13 years.
    We have been unable to find a map showing us exactly where you are, although we do know where Kadima is.
    Kindly help please.
    Many thanks,

    Debbie

  2. Sue on Tue, Dec 6th 2011 4:00 PM

    3. We are new Olim and want to take our family to Roladin Factory tour as they certainly make the best do nuts and we want to go to Coke factory.
    Do Roladin and Coke do tours in English
    How do we book ourselves onto a tour – is there email??

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