Sweet 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 MoreWanda’s Café & Bakery
Nehalem, OR*
$1.50
Something told me that the very minute I declared that I’ve never experienced a good bakery in any beach town that I would experience a good bakery in a beach town. Which is, in fact, what happened. Like, the very next day after I wrote it.
It was as if I were daring a good cookie to come my way. And check it out…it did! People, this is a good cookie. I would go a few miles out of my way (on foot, even) for this cookie. If you find yourself driving on US 101 anywhere near Manzanita and Nehalem, Oregon (and you fancy a hearty morsel of chewy oats), you should, too.
I will tell you why:
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.
Read MoreCommon Grounds Coffee House
4321 Se Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1
Since I just told you about the unexpectedly delicious oatmeal cookie that I found at Common Grounds recently, I thought I may as well stay on topic and tell you about their chocolate chip.
As I mentioned in the oatmeal post, I was alerted by on of my main chipster tipsters that the chocolate chip cookie here is straight up Toll House, super basic and pleasing. No nuts, nothing fancy – just old school, after-school special style. But so far I’ve bypassed the ccc, honing in on the oatmeal and, on my last visit, was unable to resist taking home a chunk of their homey, unadorned gingerbread – which I did not regret for a split second. It was some top notch G-bread. And if you dig that sort of thing, you need to get some in your mouth, stat. (I drooled a little bit onto my keyboard just thinking about it, if you want to know the truth.)
Read MoreCommon Grounds Coffee House
4321 Se Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1
Note: I owe this find entirely to one of my favorite cookie eaters and tipsters. (I was getting ready to write that the above link has nothing to do with cookies, but I then realized: what in the world could have more to do with cookies than…Santa Claus? It’s all a big circle game, my friends.)
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