Pearl Bakery (purchased at Pastaworks)
102 NW 9th Ave – Portland
$1.50
It’s not as easy as you’d think to find a chocolate chip/chunk cookie with nuts that are not walnuts. So I am happy when I do.
And when the non-walnuts are pecans, even better.
AND…when the cookie is prepared in the style of the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever met (David Leite’s New York Times recipe, circa 1998), even BETTER.
I know I have eaten chocolate chip cookies from Pearl Bakery in the past, but I swear they weren’t like this before. That is to say:
• Slightly underdone – in a good way.
• Stiff, not gooey (telltale sign of dough having been “aged” 48+hours in fridge)
• Studded with a just-right amount of good chocolate and toasted pecans – not overcrowded
It had been at least a couple of years since I’d been with a chocolate chip cookie from this bakery -so this might not be an especially recent change (and perhaps not a change at all. It is entirely possible that I’ve either imagined the change or never before appreciated it until now).
In any case, I could not be more pleased to have (re)discovered this gem of a ccc, sitting right under my nose.
Cookie Consumer Advocate’s tip of the day: This is far and away a more delicious and compelling cookie than the bittersweet chocolate with Oregon sea salt from St. Cupcake – and exactly one half the price.