The Dessert Tray
11950 SW Broadway St. – Beaverton
$1.50
This is a very good oatmeal raisin cookie. Nothing tricky, nothing fancy. No golden raisins, no cranberries, no cherries, no apricots. No hazelnuts, no pecans, no coconut. And mercifully, no shitty, waxy white chocolate chips. Nothing but straight up oatmeal, dark raisins, and a subtle hit of cinnamon.
It is very thick, and fairly soft – not crispy. A little bit moist and gooey in the center.
And, as you can see in the photo, it is not tiny. It fills up an entire little cookie sleeve. (You know the ones, those ubiquitous single-serving bakery cookie bags. Which, as I think of it, is probably only ubiquitous to a person who buys single cookies from bakeries with my absurd level of frequency. But I’m guessing you know what I mean.)
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, my one plea for improvement would be that they use a little (i.e., a lot) more salt. Once I added salt to my bites, I enjoyed the cookie twofold.
If I were to update my Portland oatmeal cookie roundup from 4 years ago, I would absolutely include this as one of the 5 top picks. No, it is not breaking any sort of new oatmeal cookie grounds, but…sometimes you just want an oatmeal raisin cookie to be an oatmeal raisin cookie. And this, my dear cookie monsters, is exactly that: an oatmeal raisin muthafuggin’ cookie.
Dig it.