Cool Jacks Ice Cream Sandwiches
In Michigan, you’ve no doubt seen Cool Jacks handcrafted ice cream cookie sandwiches at Camp Tamarack, a bar or bat mitzvah, a graduation party, a wedding reception, or in the freezer section of Kroger, Meijer, or Busch’s markets. Cool Jacks got started the way many beloved Michigan food brands do: someone made something exceptional by hand, their community noticed, and word spread faster than one cart could keep up with. Founded in 2011 and named after the founder Josh Charlip’s dog Jackson, Cool Jacks built their reputation on a simple but rarely executed idea: pair fresh-baked chunky cookies with small-batch, hand-churned ice cream made with 16% butterfat and no preservatives, and let the quality speak for itself.
Products are certified kosher by Rabbi Jason Miller of Kosher Michigan, which means kosher-observant consumers in Michigan and across the country have a premium, handcrafted, certified kosher ice cream sandwich option that actually tastes like something worth seeking out. For families who keep kosher and have gotten used to settling for certified kosher frozen desserts that feel like an afterthought, Cool Jacks is something different.
The flavor lineup is focused and well executed. The Classic Jack pairs vanilla ice cream with a chocolate chip cookie. The Jack Attack is the all-chocolate option. Jack Frost brings together mint ice cream and chocolate cookies, and Jack Berry offers a fruit-forward variation. Each sandwich is made in small artisan batches with 100% pure dairy and no artificial ingredients. Kosher certification through Kosher Michigan requires ongoing rabbinical supervision and ingredient verification, and for a product built on real, simple ingredients like Cool Jacks, that process is a natural extension of how the company already operates. The result is a kosher-certified ice cream sandwich in Michigan that delivers on every level, from ingredient quality to flavor to the experience of eating something genuinely handcrafted.
From a single cart in 2011, Cool Jacks grew through word of mouth into a catering operation, an ice cream truck, a scoop shop that opened in 2014, and eventually retail four-packs available in freezer sections at major retailers across Michigan. The ice cream cart catering service has become one of the most consistently requested certified kosher dessert catering options in the state. Graduation parties, weddings, birthday celebrations, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and corporate events all benefit from having a dessert option that is both fun and reliably certified kosher. The combination of handcrafted quality and active kosher supervision makes Cool Jacks particularly well-suited for Jewish community events where the food needs to be trusted as much as it needs to be enjoyed.
What makes Cool Jacks stand out within the certified kosher frozen dessert space in Michigan is that the product was never designed around the certification. It was designed around the ice cream sandwich itself. The cookies are baked fresh. The ice cream is made with 16% butterfat for real creaminess. There are no preservatives. The kosher certification through Kosher Michigan is a layer of oversight that fits naturally on a product that was already being made with exactness and care. That combination, genuine craft and genuine kosher supervision, is rarer than it should be.
Cool Jacks products are available in retail freezer sections at stores across Michigan, online through cooljacks.com, and through their ice cream catering cart service for events throughout the state. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook at @cooljacksmi for flavors and availability updates. For certified kosher ice cream catering in Michigan or a handcrafted kosher certified frozen dessert you can bring home from the grocery store, Cool Jacks is the best the state has to offer in its category.