Indianapolis business cracks open fortune cookie business
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis business is bringing fortune across the country and even around the world.
Fancy Fortune Cookies is tucked away in the business community called Sector 65, but is churning out millions of cookies each year including many of it’s giant cookies, known as the world’s largest fortune cookie.
Recently, the company sent out a 5,000 cookie order to Twitter for Fortune Cookie Day, which is September 13. While many associate fortune cookies with Chinese food, the cookie actually originated in California in the early 1900s.
Fancy Fortune Cookies opened in Indianapolis since 1988, but recently the business is cracking the mold and creating some huge orders for some prominent customers.
Making a fortune cookie is a three-minute process start to finish.
“There’s a little bit of magic involved,” Erin Jump, Fancy Fortune Cookies CEO, said.
But this isn’t your average fortune cookie.
“We have 28 different flavors and colors,” Jump said.
The staff is even making pumpkin flavored cookies for the fall season.
“We customize the messages on the inside to say whatever you want them to,” Jump said. “I’ve taken the more Confucius-style messages and kinda turned them into pop culture and motivational, just to put my own fun twist on it. So you may open one up that says bazinga.”
Jump isn’t just a businesswoman, but also the visionary behind Fancy Fortune Cookies. She’s a mother and widow, who sees a creative outlet within a small, crunch cookie.
“From the flavors and colors to big, giant cookies and the junior giants,” Jump said. “From there I was really able to catapult it into what it is today.”
Twitter isn’t the only well-known company or customer placing orders either. Recently Kate Bosworth received custom cookies and in the past Donald Trump and Oprah have also been clients.
“Definitely millions a year, right here in Indianapolis,” Jump said. “We ship all over the world.”
And Jump doesn’t stop with just a cookie and it’s magic message inside.
“We do hand-dip all of our chocolate covered cookies,” Jump said.
From Chocolate and carmel to sprinkles, Jump and her team of a dozen employees make endless combinations of cookies. For Jump, it’s a career she didn’t see coming, but has brought all the fortune one could hope for.
“Fortune cookies… You always see them, but you don’t think about the people who actually make them,” Jump said.