According to the Chunky Dunk: A Milk and Cookies Truck Facebook page, “a cookie a day keeps the doctor away, especially if you add ice cream to it.” Since owner and head baker, Sara Slimp, has a degree in social work, it’s probably OK to assume this is sound medical advice.
Photography by Ashlee Nobel
Slimp was in the final semester of her graduate program when the idea of being a food truck pioneer came to her. At the encouragement of friends, she created a gofundme.com campaign. When she raised $1,500 the first day and more than $2,200 in a week, she knew she was onto something. A few months and a whole lot of cookies later, she’s looking for a storefront to both bake and sell her confections in one location.
Chunky Dunk offers four standard cookie flavors — chocolate chip, sugar, oatmeal raisin and peanut butter — and creates specials like lemon-lavender-rosemary shortbread and “monster” cookies, which contain “everything good in the world,” Slimp said. To maximize the fantastic, add Loblolly Creamery ice cream to create a sumptuous sandwich. The cookies are each $1.50, or pick up six to 12 for $1 each; ice cream sandwiches for $5.75; and toppings for an additional cost. Be sure to check out the signature sandwiches, like The Chuck Norris, a tempting combination of chocolate chip cookies, Aztec chocolate ice cream and espresso.
Chunky Dunk
201 N. Block St.
Fayetteville, Arkansas
903.941.0808
Hours: Thu. and Fri., 1 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m.; Sat. 6 to 10 p.m.