Bakery Bar
2935 NE Glisan St – Portland
$1.50
Ever since Bakery Bar inexplicably stopped making their soft, excellent ginger cookies a few years ago, I haven’t been able to get excited about a cookie at this joint. (The bakery’s strength, imo, is savory and sweet scones -maple bacon and apple, cinnamon pecan, sharp cheddar and scallion, etc – and their breakfast menu. And cakes, which I’ve never actually tasted but are exceptionally cute and beautiful.)
Read MoreWoodlawn 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.
Read MoreSweet Life Patisserie
755 Monroe St – Eugene, OR
$1.50
In your basic chocolate-on-chocolate genre, this is a solid contender. While probably not quite as remarkable as the Triple Chocolate Cookie at Grand Central, I would certainly eat this cookie again and recommend it to anyone who digs this type of thing.
Read MoreMacrina Bakery
1943 First Avenue South – Seattle (plus 2 other Seattle locations)
$1.90
At the beach this week – in lovely Manzanita, Oregon. I am with my family, celebrating my mom’s 70th birthday. Knowing that I’d be kicking around here for 5 days with nothing more on the agenda than reading, running on the beach, munching on forty seven different types of snacks that come in bags that I rarely normally eat, drinking too much white wine, and hanging out with my kinfolk, I figured I’d have some extra time to track down and then tell you about a great beach cookie.
Read MoreAlma Chocolate
140 NE 28th Ave – Portland
$1.25
OMG Chocolate Chip Cookie: This is what the bakery calls it. I didn’t just throw that in there ‘cuz I think it’s a slammin’ cookie (I do think it’s a slamming cookie, BTW). Or, because I like to use cute abbreviations for stuff, FYI. Or because I buy them for my BFF’s, who love CCC’s, and live in PDX.
Like I was sayin’, this is a great chocolate chip cookie and I should have mentioned it sooner. Portland Monthly Magazine, in fact, just gave it a nod in their recent cc cookie roundup – and although I am not on board with a few that they singled out, I could not agree more about this (kind of) hidden gem at Alma.
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