Cookie shop inspired by hip-hop culture to open on Mass Ave

A Cookie Plug store is expected to open this spring at 646 Massachusetts Ave. (IBJ photo/Dave Lindquist) Anaheim, California-based Cookie Plug plans to connect customers with tasty treats when the company’s first Indiana location opens this spring at 646 Massachusetts Ave. With a menu highlighted by chocolate chip and strawberry cheesecake flavors, Cookie Plug debuted in 2019 as a concept influenced by hip-hop music and street art. An image of late rapper the Notorious B.I.G. will be seen on one of the walls inside the Mass Ave store, franchisee Doreen Walters said. “The concept is just fun,” said Walters, noting that one of the company’s slogans is, “Thick thighs save lives.” Walters said she would like the Mass Ave shop to open in late April. Walters, a Virginia Beach, Virginia, resident who grew up in Warsaw, Indiana, intends to open a total of five Cookie Plug shops in central Indiana with her husband, Michael Walters. The owners of a package delivery business decided to branch out to cookies after sampling the product. “The cookies are crispy on the outside and ooey-gooey on the inside,” Doreen Walters said. “They’re like grandma’s cookies, completely.” The Cookie Plug website describes the company’s creations...