Little T Baker
2600 SE Division St. – Portland
$2
I stopped by Little T today for the first time in a few months – only because I don’t get over to this neighborhood (during cookie hours) so often – not because I don’t think it’s a fine, fine bakery. (It is.)
I saw this cookie in the case, unlabeled. The lady described it to me as a snickerdoodle with
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Café Eleven
435 NE Rosa Parks Way – Portland
$2
It is no secret that I’m a fan of a double dark chocolate/triple chocolate/chocolate whopper/ooey gooey chocolate cookie. It has a variety of handles, this dark brown beauty, but it mainly boils down to this:
Read MoreCafé Eleven
435 NE Rosa Parks Way – Portland
$2
I’ve eaten a lot of hippie cookies in my life.
A lot of them were good. A few of them were great.
But even more of them tasted like…actual dirty hippies.
Read MoreTreat Bakery
210 W Evergreen Blvd – Vancouver, WASHINGTON
Cereal Killer. I’m embarrassed to tell you that I didn’t get the pun at first. I was, in fact, wondering why they were calling it “cereal killer cookie” instead of “killer cereal cookie.”
Read MoreMilk
7290 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
$1.50
I’ve been very fond of the cookies at Milk since my first visit – in 2008 – and I return every time I’m in Los Angeles. (I like L.A.) Four years ago I proclaimed Milk’s iced spice molasses cookie my favorite molasses cookie ever.
Read MoreRed Wagon Creamery
55 West Broadway – Eugene, OR
$1.75
It has been a long time since I ate a cookie good enough to talk about.
But I finally did. Last week. In my hometown. Not at a bakery, even. But at an ice cream joint called Red Wagon Creamery. They make very good ice cream*, but whomever they’ve got in charge of the cookies is no dummy, either.
Read MoreThe Slanted Door cookie kiosk
Ferry Building Marketplace- San Francisco
$1
Note: I found this cookie NOT in the actual Slanted Door restaurant, but instead just outside of it, amongst the kiosks in the main hallway of the Ferry Building Marketplace. I’m not sure whether this a regular Slanted Door cookie stand or if it exists only occasionally. Looks like I assed-out with the information-gathering on this one. Sorry guys.
I was with my mom on a short visit to S.F. last week and by the time I found this nugget last Saturday, we’d walked probably 5 miles and tasted about 4 other cookies in the Ferry Building/farmers’ – all of them before noon. The day before that, we’d tasted about 3 others in the city. This was the most remarkable of the bunch.
Read MoreDouble Dragon Bar & Restaurant
1235 Division St. – Portland
$1.50
The first thing to know: this is not a macaroon.
Read MoreCostello’s Travel Caffé
2222 NE Broadway – Portland
$1.75
I’m on the fence about this cookie.
On one hand, I’m mad at it for being neither brown buttery or salty in any profound way.
Read MoreRoman Candle Baking Co.
3377 SE Division St. – Portland
$1
This is the second time I’m talking to you about biscotti. (The first was just last month.)
Note: I should actually say from Roman Candle, not at. I found these biscotti at Case Study Coffee on NE Sandy — along with a solid lineup of other RC pastries. I’ve never actually seen it at Roman Candle because their pastry case was close to empty 9 out of the approximately 10 times I’ve been there -despite the fact that it was nowhere near closing time on any of those visits. (This is one of my beefs with RC – but I won’t get into that now.)
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Bluebird Bakers
2390 NW Thurman – Portland
$2
Man, have I been on some kind of an almond jag lately. I made marzipan for the first time a couple of weeks ago (so much easier than I realized). I also bought a Bakeshop almond croissant at Extracto Coffeehouse last week, and anyone who knows me knows that this is far off of my beaten pastry path. Not sure what’s happening in my head and mouth, but something in there is telling me it needs to eat almond paste.
Read Morelittle t baker
2600 SE Division – Portland
$1.75
Seems like Little T likes to switch up their oatmeal cookie from time to time. I have no complaints with this; there are so many ways to enjoy an oatmeal cookie. Why settle on just one?
Read MoreWhole Foods Market
NE 15th/Fremont – Portland
$1.69
This is the first time I’m talking to you about biscotti.
It is not because I hate biscotti. It is because I don’t see them; biscotti are like wallpaper to me.
Read MoreMiss Zumstein Bakery & Coffee Shop
5027 NE 42nd Ave – Portland
$1.25
A classic coconut macaroon. No flour – only coconut, egg whites, sugar…vanilla?
Read MoreRoman Candle Baking Co.
3377 SE Division – Portland
$1
There were three different flavors of shortbread cookies sitting in the case when I went in to pick up a loaf of my favorite bread the other day (actually, a quarter of a loaf of my favorite bread. Yeah, they sell quarter loaves – it’s a massive and dense loaf to begin with). Big points for RC for that.
I’m not typically shortbread-leaning, but these were all compelling. Polenta pisatchio (I might be making up the pistachio part), and…oh damn. I’ve already forgotten the other one, but it looked good, too.
When I finally settled on the toasted pecan, the very patient (and cute) young man at the counter smiled and told me it was his favorite. And though I haven’t tasted the others, he knows what he’s talking about. This is a really good shortbread cookie.
Read MoreThe Bread Peddler
222 N. Capitol Way – Olympia
$1.50
In another uncharacteristic move on my part, I’m throwin some more p-butter your way. That’s 2 in a row, cookie monsters!
Clearly, this one has more than just peanut butter going on.
Read MoreWoodlawn Coffee and Pastry
808 NE Dekum – Portland
$2
In an effort to make up for Carpe Cookie’s under representation of peanut butter, I took one for the team today.
And I am happy to tell you that it did not taste like sacrifice.
Read MoreLaughing Planet Café
7 locations in Portland (and a couple in Eugene and Corvallis)
$2
I’m sorry to say that I’ve overlooked this cookie for a long time. Truthfully, the only reason I ever even go to Laughing Planet is to grab the Hempseed Carob Hazelnut, probably the most unlikely cookie on my list of favorites. I’ve told you about this one. I’ve mentioned that there is no logical reason for me to love this cookie; it has hemp, it has carob,it has hazelnuts (not my favorite nut). Oh yeah, and it’s a little bit over-baked. I can’t explain or justify its credibility, all I know is that it is oddly compelling.
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