Ristretto Roasters
3808 N Williams Ave- Portland
3520 NE 42d Ave – Portland
$2
I recently told you about the oatmeal chocolate chunk, a more than respectable and very satisfying cookie being made by Kim Boyce, available at Ristretto Roasters. But the one that is really making me swoon lately (also featured in her stellar cookbook) is the Chocolate Chocolate Nib cookie.
Read Morelittle t american baker
2600 SE Division – Portland
$1.25
I should tell you straight away that I almost never eat peanut butter cookies. It’s not so much that I hate them, but when it comes time to pick my poison, it’s never my first choice (or even second or third). But being that the pbc is adored by so many fellow cookie-eaters and also being that the entire raison d’etre of Carpe Cookie is to lead you to the golden nuggets in the overcrowded field of mostly mundane cookies, I realized it was time to represent. Represent the pbc, that is.
Read MoreRistretto Roasters
3808 N Williams Ave- Portland
3520 NE 42d Ave – Portland
$2
I have nearly a crapload of cookbooks. The truth is, though, that only a handful of these are ones that I use on any kind of consistent basis – or any basis, for that fact. But when my friend Giovanna reviewed Good to the Grain a couple of months ago, it quickly became one of the few cookbooks I’ve come across lately that I felt the need to add to my collection.
Read MoreAlma Chocolate
140 NE 28th Ave – Portland
$1
Alma Chocolate, a tiny shop in Northeast Portland, is known mainly for their signature (edible) gold leaf-painted molded chocolate icons, bon bons, barks, toffees and cocoa-dusted candied nuts. The array of unexpected confections, all made from one deep, dark single-origin chocolate or another, is stunning. But what I want to tell you about is the shop’s more off-the-radar (at least to me) bakery items.
I seem to forget about Alma as a bakery, per se, but the fact is that they are kickin’ out some of Portland’s better cookies, brownies and cake. And this, natch, is what I want to tell you about – a cookie.
Read MorePearl Bakery
102 NW 9th Ave – Portland
$1.50
1
If you’re noticing that there is a disproportionate number of ginger molasses cookies featured here, well, it’s because I have a disproportionate love of ginger molasses cookies. Because ginger molasses cookies are fucking awesome.
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