Vermont Cider Mill · Waterbury Center, Vermont · Family-Owned Since 1974
Cold Hollow Cider Mill
Cider donuts, maple-apple drizzle, and maple butter from one of Vermont’s best-known cider mill traditions.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill has been welcoming visitors since 1974, turning Vermont apples into fresh cider and building a year-round food story around the cider mill experience. What began with cider has grown into a broader Vermont pantry story. For Gift With a Story, we are keeping the assortment deliberately focused on three products that feel especially true to the mill: cider donut mix, maple apple drizzle, and maple butter.
A Vermont cider mill story built around apples, donuts, and the flavors of autumn.
Where It Began
A family-owned Vermont mill grows around the fresh-cider tradition.
The Story Starts With Apples and a Mill.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill opened in 1974 in Waterbury Center, Vermont.
Set along Route 100 between Waterbury and Stowe, the mill became known for the kind of stop travelers hope to find: fresh cider, warm cider donuts, a country-store pantry, and a place that feels unmistakably Vermont.
Over time, the mill grew into more than a cider stand. It developed a bakery, café, gift shop, and a pantry of products built around apples, maple, and the flavors that make the cider mill experience memorable after visitors go home.
That is why Cold Hollow works well for Gift With a Story. We are not simply buying a jar or a mix. We are borrowing a full seasonal food tradition.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill opens and begins building its Vermont cider story.
Between Waterbury and Stowe, the mill becomes part of the classic Vermont travel experience.
Fresh cider donuts become one of the mill’s most recognizable signatures.
Mixes, ciders, spices, and sauces extend the cider mill experience beyond Vermont.
A Distinct Type of Maker
The Cider Mill Is Its Own Kind of Food Story.
Cold Hollow does not read like a jam company, a bakery, or a coffee roaster. It reads like a place.
That matters. A cider mill gives us a very different kind of story from the makers already in your assortment. It centers the orchard, the press, the donut window, maple sweetness, and the idea of a seasonal stop people return to year after year.
In gift form, that becomes especially useful. A recipient can open a box and immediately understand the experience being suggested: make the donuts, pour the drizzle, spread the maple butter, and lean into autumn.
Very few makers let us build such a complete moment without overlapping too heavily with what you already carry.
Cold Hollow is not just selling an apple product. It is selling the idea of a day at the cider mill.
Why the maker stands outFrom the Mill Pantry
Three Products. One Clear Cider Mill Story.
For Gift With a Story, we are keeping Cold Hollow tightly curated. Each product should reinforce the same Vermont orchard-and-mill experience instead of turning the maker into another general pantry supplier.
Cider Donut Mix
The strongest take-home version of the cider mill experience: a warm, spiced donut you make at home.
Maple Apple Drizzle
Apple, Vermont maple, and pie-spice flavor for pancakes, waffles, yogurt, ice cream, and baked desserts.
Maple Butter
A rich Vermont maple spread that works naturally with toast, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, and breakfast gifts.
Selected for a Reason
Why We Chose Cold Hollow Cider Mill.
Cold Hollow gives us a strong seasonal maker without stepping on the categories already owned by other partners.
We are not bringing them in for jam, mustard, coffee, or broad pantry overlap. We are bringing them in for what feels uniquely theirs: cider-donut culture and orchard-maple flavor.
That keeps the maker focused. It also gives you a clean story you do not currently have elsewhere: the Vermont cider mill.
The result is a maker that can support fall gifts, holiday gifts, breakfast gifts, and comfort-food gifts without competing too directly with Bauman’s, Welsh Mountain, New Hope Mills, or your other pantry makers.
Bring in the mill, not the whole general store.
The right way to use Cold HollowOur Cold Hollow Assortment
Three Ways to Bring the Cider Mill Home.
We are intentionally keeping this maker focused on three products that add something distinct to the Gift With a Story pantry.
The Signature Experience
Cider Donut Mix
Apple · Spice · Baking Experience
The clearest connection to a day at Cold Hollow: a take-home mix that lets the recipient recreate the warm cider-donut experience in their own kitchen.
The Orchard Finisher
Maple Apple Drizzle
McIntosh Apple · Vermont Maple · Pie Spice
A versatile orchard-and-maple sauce that works especially well with pancakes, waffles, yogurt, ice cream, and baked desserts.
The Vermont Spread
Maple Butter
Vermont Maple · Smooth · Spreadable
A rich maple spread that gives Cold Hollow a second breakfast direction without competing directly with your fruit butters, jams, or caramel sauces.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Begin With the Cider Donuts.
The Strongest Mill Identity
If you want the product that most immediately explains why Cold Hollow belongs in the collection, start with the Cider Donut Mix.
Choosing Their Cider Mill Gift
What Kind of Vermont Morning Are You Sending?
Each of the three products creates a slightly different experience.
The Weekend Baker
For someone who will enjoy turning the gift into warm cider donuts at home.
Cider Donut MixThe Orchard Breakfast Person
For pancakes, waffles, yogurt, ice cream, and baked desserts.
Maple Apple DrizzleThe Maple Person
For toast, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, and a straightforward taste of Vermont maple.
Maple ButterBuild the Cider Mill Gift
Three Products, Several Strong Pairings.
Cold Hollow works best when its products reinforce breakfast, baking, and orchard-centered gifts already in your assortment.
Orchard Breakfast
Maple Apple Drizzle + New Hope Mills
Pancake or waffle mix with Maple Apple Drizzle is probably the strongest Cold Hollow pairing in your current assortment.
Cider Mill Coffee Break
Cider Donut Mix + Red Door Coffee
Fresh cider donuts and Pennsylvania-roasted coffee make an easy fall-morning or holiday-weekend gift.
Vermont Breakfast
Maple Butter + New Hope Mills
Maple Butter gives pancakes, waffles, biscuits, and toast a distinctly Vermont finish without duplicating fruit butter.
A Vermont Stop Worth Remembering
VTThe Maker Sells More Than Products. It Sells a Stop Along the Road.
Cold Hollow’s identity is tied to place in a very direct way. People do not simply order from a faceless brand. They remember visiting the mill, seeing the cider operation, watching the donuts, and bringing something home.
The mill’s setting in Waterbury Center—on one of Vermont’s best-known travel corridors—helps make it part of the larger state food memory of orchards, maple, barns, and autumn weekends.
That sense of place is what keeps the maker from feeling generic. Even the pantry items still read as part of a cider mill, not just as products that happen to contain apple.
When Cold Hollow Goes Into a Gift
Every Gift Comes With More.
A Vermont Cider Mill Favorite
Cider Donut Mix, Maple Apple Drizzle, or Maple Butter selected for the gift.
A Family-Owned Mill Story
The 1974 founding, the Waterbury Center location, and the identity of the Vermont cider mill.
Recipes, Serving Ideas & Pairings
How to make the donuts, use the drizzle, or serve the maple butter at breakfast.
Personalized Story
Add an occasion story chosen for the person receiving the gift.
From Our Shop
Gift Sets Featuring Cold Hollow Cider Mill
Give them a Vermont cider-mill favorite, the orchard story behind it, and a little of autumn to open at home.
Give More Than a Gift
Open the Box. Step Into the Cider Mill.
From cider donuts to maple-apple drizzle and maple butter, Cold Hollow Cider Mill brings the Vermont orchard season into a gift that feels warm before it is even opened.