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Ultrathin and huge Chocolate Chunk at Auntie Em’s Kitchen

Posted by on Feb 18, 2011 in Chocolate Chip | 2 comments

Auntie Em’s Kitchen
4616 Eagle Rock Blvd  – L.A. (Eagle Rock)
$2

It has been said that if you put 10 Jews in a room, you’ll hear 11 different opinions.

I might say the same is true for chocolate chip cookie eaters. In other words, it is a highly divisive topic. Some favor thin and crisp, some swear by thick and doughy. Or thin and chewy. Or thick and biscuity. Some dig walnuts or pecans, others say “hell no” to the nuts. Some ccc bakers misguidedly think they’re doing us a great favor by including butterscotch – or possibly worse – white chocolate chips. Ugh and double ugh. The possibilities are endless – more so than with perhaps any other cookie.

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Oatmeal currant & cranberry at Common Grounds Coffee House

Posted by on Feb 12, 2011 in Oatmeal, Whole grain | 0 comments

Common Grounds Coffee House
4321 Se Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1

Note: I owe this find entirely to one of my favorite cookie eaters and tipsters. (I was getting ready to write that the above link has nothing to do with cookies, but I then realized: what in the world could have more to do with cookies than…Santa Claus?   It’s all a big circle game,  my friends.)

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Extra Chocolaty Chocolate Cookie* at Mother’s Bistro & Bar

Posted by on Feb 5, 2011 in Chocolate, Chocolate Chip | 0 comments

Mother’s Bistro & Bar
212 SW Stark St – Portland
$1.50

Not that it should be surprising that you would find a great cookie at Mother’s. I mean, this is a place that is known and loved in Portland for it’s top notch comfort food. Also,  I’m pretty sure a place that calls itself “Mother’s” is legally obliged to provide not just cookies, but super awesome, homemade-y gems like the ones goin’ on here. The thing is, Mother’s is a full-fledged, (quite lovely) sit-down restaurant –  not a bakery, per se – or a coffee shop where you might think to pop in and grab a cookie to go. But you can.  You totally CAN!

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Lemon Meringue Cookie at Proof Bakery

Posted by on Jan 26, 2011 in Meringue, Lemon | 2 comments

Proof Bakery
3156 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles (Atwater Village)
$2

Before visiting L.A. recently, I had read that a brand new bakery called Proof (opened in December ’10) was making a cookie called a zimsterne. I’d somehow never heard of these, which is surprising because it is a cookie that is completely after my own heart. I have a soft spot for anything almond – particularly almond paste, marzipan or almond flour – the latter being a key player in the zimsterne. Also, I love cinnamon. I was sold – enough so to make the somewhat out-of-the-way drive (from where I was) to Atwater Village (not far from Silverlake).

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