Dancing Deer Baking Co.

If you want to send a gift, Dancing Deer will not let you down. From the packaging to the quality, your gift will be well received. Thank you!!! A first rate business. Prepare for the effusive praise. A wonderful company, spreading tremendous joy.

I’d like to thank the kind people at Dancing Deer for making my 2015 gifts-​to-​our-​customers a HUGE success. We had sent out 18 boxes of cookies and all but one went out without a hitch. And the one that failed was because the address was off by one digit. Dancing Deer was so nice to not only send a new, freshly-​baked box of cookies at no additional charge but cover the shipping as well. I didn’t even need to ask, though I was expecting to cover the costs myself.
Aside from that, the quality of the product and its packaging brought many happy smiles to our customers and friends. Thank you so much again for such a great product and excellent customer service.
Cheers,
Richard

I started using Dancing Deer way back on a whim, and was very happy with their products and packaging. In fact we had used them so often for Christmas and birthday gifts between my brothers and sisters and I, it almost became a cliché that we were still happy to receive. But I’ve also seen their prices climb and climb to where it’s just not logical to spend so much on simple bakery items anymore when they are similar online shops offering similiar items for a lot less. It’s a shame.

Picked up a few containers of their sugar cookie mix at a store local to Vancouver. I did miss out on this shop a while back, therefore, it was cool that they had their own brand of sugar cookie mix. Not too much needed for their add on ingredients.

I paid for 2 orders in January 2015. One was to be delivered in 2 days at the end of January, and that one arrived.
The second one was ordered to arrive on Feb 13^th, and that one never arrived. I called them on Feb 14^th to find out the story. The toll free number kept me on the line for 20 minutes. When the customer service answered there was no apology on the waiting time. The rep told me that it was shipped but she could not explain why I never received a shipping notification about it. She told me that it should arrive on Feb 16^th, which is not the date that I paid for. She was unable to give me an email confirmation on that shipping for tracking purposes.
In addition, a few days after I paid for this order that was supposed to arrive on 2/​13, I received one of their promotional emails advertising free shipping for valentines day. So, I asked that Dancing Deer reimburse my shipping cost since they screwed on on the shipping. She said she would have to look into that.
I will never order from them again.

Molasses clove… ermagerd. So tasty. Took me a few years to create a home recipe that comes close that I tweaked to perfection for my personal taste… And I bake a lot.
Cute, but not overly fra-​fra packaging (i.e. tins and boxes – and other packaging– that are nice, without being over the top, especially for office /​business /​academic settings).
Some of their products are available at Whole Foods. Not as fresh, nor can you be sure to find any at a given time. Plus, not much selection via the Whole Foods route (outside of MA) — only — I’ve found a few of their longer-​shelf-​life products at the sad little Whole Foods in Louisville KY, but availability is both limited and unpredictable — hence the good luck that they sell retail via the web. Yay!!!
Sure, prices are, well, what prices are.
Fairly reliable delivery — and they are attentive when problems are brought to their attention, either for product or shipping problems, in my experience.

Update! I reached out to Andrew H. of from Dancing Deer via the email address he provided. As usual, no response. Still feeling the same way about the company.

These cookies are fine if you get them as a gift however do not pay money for them. The cookies are average at best and really for the price are not worth it.

I received a very nice apology from Susan and I appreciate her taking the time to send it.

I’ve really tried to like Dancing Deer cookies for years. And, I’ve been given their products as gifts too many times to mention. Really … I have. But, I just bought some mini gingerbread cookies at Whole Foods today and it was the final straw.
What’s brown, dried out, flavorless and roughly approximates the shape of a Shrek character? Why Dancing Deer Gingerbread men, that’s what!
I think I’ll pass in the future … permanently.

I love molasses-​type cookies, and Dancing Deer’s are among the best I’ve found. Trader Joe’s offers something similar which I also like, but I found TJ’s cookies a little bit cloying by the time I finished the box, which wasn’t true for Dancing Deer’s. I’m glad my local supermarket, Roche Brothers, stocks Dancing Deer.

Oatmeal Molasses Cookies are great. If you’re into soft cookies these are more towards the crispy side.
Their lemon daisy cookes were a nice lemony and buttery taste. I like that they come in package of two. That way you can have one and share one with a friend. Or, you don’t end up eating the whole box! :)
The pecan brownies were good. You can’t really finish the whole brownie in one sitting. I like that the brownie didn’t go stale after opening up the package. It was good until the last bite.
The packaging for all of their packages are super cute. And their prices are decent. Would buy more!

Everything I have had from dancing deer is great! My job sells them and I used to have one brownie a day, sometimes I would switch it up with a chocolate chip cookie. One time we accidentally ordered the molasses clove cookie and that was amazing! I occasionally crave their products.
Why didn’t they get 5 stars? They are not available in a lot of stores. Also, this is not a store front. Give us a store front or get the product in more stores, please!

Oh Dancing Deer unless you shape up your act I hope never to see your product again. Don’t get me wrong you’ve done a great job with the wrapping, the words and art are just perfect — to good actually which is why it’s a problem. Because the wrapping and marketing is dangerously attractive to those relatively conscious eaters who actually have taste, suckering them in to buying your product.
BIG MISTAKE! Your brownies — caramel pecan ones in particular — are essentially a mouth full of sugar bite after bite. Sugar over chocolate doth not a good brownie make. Disgusting, I don’t understand why they even stock them in the natural food stores.
Normally if I don’t like something I won’t buy it ever again which is what happened the first time I thought — «nice package, looks good and at $ 6 for 3 brownies they must be good.» I realized my mistake in the first bite (although I’ll admit I kept trying because I desperately wanted to like them). NEVER AGAIN was what I came away with. I’ve seen them around, and revolted every time, relieved I would never have to come in contact with such a fraud again.
But I was wrong. Because of your wonderful packaging you lure unsuspecting people who actually enjoy quality and nice things into buying your product. As soon as they try it and realize your caramel pecan brownies are nothing more than a cleverly disguised bag of sugar in fancy clothing they abandon them.
This happened to a friend who was staying at my house while I was away. A man of exceptional taste with a bit of a sweet tooth. He must have encountered your brownies in a corner store here and thought he’d buy himself a great treat. HOW WRONG HE WAS which is why I came home to find your dreaded product abandoned in my house.
I watched it for a few days hoping it would just disappear. It didn’t and today I finally tried it again thinking perhaps I was wrong, and sadly they are as revolting as the first time.
I implore you PLEASE PLEASE change your packaging so it more accurately reflects the total crapness of the 3 lumps of sugar inside. Make it look attractive to the slightly more conscious Oreo Cookies crowd who will delight at so much sugar with less chemical.
Please so it will save me from ever having to come across your product again.
Also, maybe change your name because deer are fantastic animals and I think you are giving them a bad name.
I would have emailed this to you instead of posting it in a public forum but a quick look around your website did not easily turn up an email address.

If you love sweets as much as I do, you would be willing to splurge on their yummy baked goodness.
Seriously.
Their brownies are little slices of Heaven — they are so good that words don’t do it justice.
The first time I had it was on a flight and I saved the wrapper because it was so amazingly good then I started ordering online.
The crust is a bit flaky with just enough «crustyness», not going-​to-​cut-​the-​roof-​of-​your-​mouth hard. The middle is mildly, chewy and moist with small chunks of chocolate to make it just the right chocolate. The flavor is perfect.

There are not many cookies I would go to the trouble to order online. Dancing Deer Chocolate Tangerines are such a cookie. O.M.G. I was amazed that these cookies came all the way from the Boston area and were not baked fresh on the spot… cuz they sure tasted like they could have been.
Thankfully I found them at Sunshine Market in St. Helena, CA and didn’t have to pay $ 23 plus shipping to get 18 of them… nor did I need 18, because for sure they would have been all gone. :)
Dancing Deer cookies would make an excellent gift to cheer someone up… and you can order gift boxes online. Whole Foods carries some of their products, but I’m not sure which. Oh yeah… and all their products are kosher dairy. Bonus!

I got some of their brownies from whole foods. They were pretty delicious. However, I am reading these great reviews and I just wish that whole foods carried more of a variety in terms of their products. The peppermint brownies sound awesome, but I don’t want to pay shipping on sweets that I already feel guilty enough about buying in the store.

I was at work. I found free food. One of the things I found was a caramel-​pecan brownie from this place. It was in a cellophane wrapper. I thought «this will probably suck because it is in a cellophane package and never in my long life has any confection ever been any good when contained within a cellophane wrapper.»
I was wrong. That almost never happens.
I opened it up and took a bite. It was simply AMAZING. It was super moist and ultra-​decadent in it’s chocolate-​y goodness. I’ve never had a brownie as good as this one. It has ruined me, as any other brownie from now on will never be as good as that first bite of a Dancing Deer Co brownie.
It was so good I actually wrote the company an email about how amazed I was. They wrote back! Who does that anymore? Cool.
I am a customer for life. I’m going to be sending Christmas gifts out to people from this place. All I’ve ever had are the brownies and now I’m scared to try anything else because they might ruin cookies and cakes for me as well!
PS: When I die, and I’m up in heaven, I want to be eating brownies from this place for all eternity.

I’m not going to lie; I get a little giddy when my Dancing Deer catalog comes in the mail. If you’re a friend /​family member or yankee swappee of mine, you know that I heart Dancing Deer as a gift.
There are sooo many great tasting treats that sometimes I’m glad I can’t just walk into their store and buy stuff. Although Shaw’s sells their brownies now.
I even love the containers the cookies come in. Some one else Unilocaled about how they tried to apply here. Me too! When a company says that one of the related job tasks is to sample the goodness that are desserts, then sign me up!

There are two reasons I hate Dancing Deer:
1. They don’t have a retail store at their location. Everything they have is sooo wonderful but not every store that sells Dancing Deer Products sells every item. So poo. poo on you for not having a retail store for me.
2. I don’t work there. I tried once, although, I’ll admit, not with great drive. I suppose they don’t have a need for an administrative manager with extensive knowledge of the mortgage industry… their loss. My waist’s gain.
Everything they make is delicious. Moist. Rich. Fantastic. The brownies literally fall apart in your mouth. The cookies give you shudders of joy.
You can go to their website and order whatever you like or find a store that sells items. Go and buy something. You won’t regret it.
Oh, Dancing Deer… open a retail store and hire me to run it.