• That Cookie Time bakes approximately 300,000 cookies per week in summer and approximately 500,000 cookies per week in winter? That means that 10% of New Zealanders are eating at least one Cookie Time cookie per week!

• That Cookie Time uses 7.5 tonnes of butter per week? This equals 120 tonnes of milk per week which equals the amount that would be produced by 7500 cows! This represents the number of cows from 13 average Canterbury farms!

• That Cookie Time uses 9.5 tonnes of chocolate per week? If you stacked all that chocolate up it would take up the space of a single garage!

• That Michael first used a converted bacon slicer to cut king sized blocks of chocolate into chunks - the chocolate chunks at this size were so popular that they were kept that way!

• That Cookie Time uses real eggs? A whopping 40,000 of them each week! Up until not that long ago, one person's full time job was cracking eggs!

• That from 1983 to 1996, Cookie Time hand scooped cookie dough onto baking trays using icecream scoops! This is how Michael first did it in the old days, and is the reason that Cookie Time cookies are the size that they are!

• That in 1996 Cookie Time baked the World's Biggest Cookie? This giant cookie measured a whopping 487.15 square metres in area and 24.9 metres in diameter (that's one big cookie!)

• That in 2000, Cookie Time painted up a DC3 plane in giant cookies? The plane was turned into a cafe and is still there at Mangaweka in the North Island! Check out the pics in Cookie Muncher's Photo Album.