Miss Zumstein Bakery & Coffee Shop
5027 NE 42nd Ave – Portland
$2
The most back-to-basic ccc I’ve found at a quality bakery since…maybe ever.
No irregular, misshapen chunks of chocolate dominating the cookie -only good, semisweet chocolate chip-shaped chips.
Read MoreTabor Bread
5051 SE Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1.75
I love buckwheat.
And I love that Tabor Bread embraces the many, many flours other than (but also including) wheat that exist in the world and uses them – to great effect – on classics like oatmeal raisin, shortbread, etc. Not to mention a compelling array of beautiful yeasted breads.
Read MorePacific Pie Co.
1520 SE 7th Ave – Portland
.75¢ and $1.50
Hi cookie eaters. This is a two-fer post. I’ve never had two different cookies share the limelight of a single post, but I’m doing it now because these are, in fact, very nearly the same cookie. The only thing separating the ANZAC biscuit from the cowboy cookie sitting in a neighboring jar at Pacific Pie Company is the addition of chocolate chips.
First things first. You’re either hip to the ANZAC biscuit or…you are not. If you are not, here’s the main thing to know.
Read MoreBushel & Peck Bakeshop
3907 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd – Portland
$1.50
Q: Why have I never written about a snickerdoodle in my 3 whole years of cookie bloggin?
A: Because virtually every snickerdoodle that has ever been inside my mouth tastes like a whole lotta nuthin.
Q: Why am I writing about one NOW?
A: Because the simple addition of cardamom, a tiny bit of salt (even a little more wouldn’t hurt, frankly), added to the baker’s willingness to underbake it so that it remains soft and buttery and not dry and biscuit-y, makes this snickerdoodle worth talking about. And, more to the point, worth being inside my mouth.
Read MorePie Spot
521 NE 24th Avenue- Portland
$2
Yes, this is a place for pies. Little bitty personal-sized pies. An impressively prolific variety, I might add.
Which is cool. But more compelling than the pies, if you ask me, are the cookies. (Because, uh…this ain’t no pie blog.) I’ve been here twice (two days in a row because I was working around the corner in a studio a couple of weeks ago) and each day they were making both regular chocolate chip and these here Momofuku cornflake cookies.
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