Woodlawn Coffee and Pastry
808 NE Dekum – Portland
$1.75
When I asked the barista what was in it (mainly with regard to nuts and dried fruit ‘n’ stuff), she told me: “milk chocolate chunks.” So, first thing’s first: this is not a double dark chocolate cookie. While it does indeed double down on the chocolate, the cookie is misnamed.
Which is not to say that it is not exceptionally good – (a double negative for a double chocolate cookie). Let me rephrase that: It is exceptionally good – and this coming from someone who almost never doesn’t choose dark chocolate. Again with the double negative. Let me rephrase that: I can take or leave milk chocolate, which means that except on very rare occasions, I leave it. Because…what’s the point? If I’m going to eat chocolate (and I AM going to eat chocolate), I want it dark. Double dark.
But back to the topic at hand (and having said what I just said), I REALLY like this cookie.
Here’s why:
• It is thick, like hand-formed burger thick.
• It is perfectly underdone in the middle. Like a fudgy brownie – not even slightly cakey. J’adore a fudgy, non-cakey brownie.
• The salt. You can see it right there in the photo. I’ve said it before and I probably won’t ever stop saying it: salt lets us taste and savor and LOVE that chocolate, that butter, that sugar…and really, isn’t this the entire point of putting a double (not so) dark, buttery, sugary cookie burger in your mouth? A rhetorical question, I realize, but just to clarify: yes, that is the entire point.
I love the description of “hand-formed” burger, so apt. Also, in a town full of glossy, eggy and chewy double chocolate cookies this one is uniquely not glossy or chewy and has a home-made feel in comparison. It’s my new favorite
Hi Peter,
I think I agree with you about it being my new favorite of its genre – but it’s a toss up between this one and the triple chocolate at Grand Central.
I also like those eggy, chewy double chocolate cookies you’re talking about, but they sort of get stuck in my molars. This one seems extra decadent and homey. Top notch. Let’s go eat one soon.