Common 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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Mother’s Bistro & Bar
212 SW Stark St – Portland
$1.50
Not that it should be surprising that you would find a great cookie at Mother’s. I mean, this is a place that is known and loved in Portland for it’s top notch comfort food. Also, I’m pretty sure a place that calls itself “Mother’s” is legally obliged to provide not just cookies, but super awesome, homemade-y gems like the ones goin’ on here. The thing is, Mother’s is a full-fledged, (quite lovely) sit-down restaurant – not a bakery, per se – or a coffee shop where you might think to pop in and grab a cookie to go. But you can. You totally CAN!
Read MoreCravin Raven Bakery
8339 SE 13th Avenue – Portland
$2
Do your salivary glands dry up at the mere mention of the phrase “gluten free”? If so, please stay with me. This is not the bland, impossibly dry, sawdust-and-cotton balls-tasting biscuit you may once have had the displeasure of meeting. It’s good. Really.
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Pumpkin Cookie Dough
Your grocer’s refrigerator case – hint: look near the Kozy Shack Pudding!**
$3.50-$3.99-ish/18 oz (apx 18 cookies-worth)
I had oral surgery last week. I’m not talking about your run of the mill, pansy-ass root canal, friends. This was some serious shit: several (as in, more than a couple) teeth were extracted (by my Chris O’Donnell look-alike periodontist, btw),
Read MoreBarbur World Foods
9845 Southwest Barbur Blvd – Portland
$1.50
I’ve been meaning to tell you about this maamoul that I picked up a couple of weeks ago at the in-house bakery of Barbur World Foods – a specialty grocery store that imports foods internationally – mainly from the Middle East and Europe.
When I unwrapped the cookie, a warm and deep vanilla scent filled the air. It actually made me shiver, I’m not lying. And the very smoothly-ground date filling was kissed with orange blossom water, all of which had soaked into the buttery, shortbread-like crust – making the whole affair moist, fragrant and sensational.
Really sweet and rich, in a baklava sort of way.
And it was only a buck and half.
Just for future reference.
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