Sweet Life Patisserie
755 Monroe St – Eugene, OR
$1.75
My 2-3x/year trips to Eugene are nearly always capped with a stop by Sweet Life on my way out of town. By “nearly always” I mean always.
And not for nostalgia’s sake. Yes, I (more or less) lived in that city from the moment I left my mama’s womb to the time of my first legal cocktail, which I’m just now for the first time in my life
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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.
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755 Monroe Street – Eugene, OR
$1.95
Here’s why I love this cookie:
1. It’s made out of pumpkin. There is no good reason we should be eating pumpkin only from October-December; this is why preservation was invented, friends. Canned pumpkin is a lovely, lovely thing and I want to eat it in February, June and August as much as I do in November. Pumpkin need not be any more “seasonal” than ketchup or jam. The bakers at Sweet Life understand this fact and therefore grace us with their awesome pumpkin cookie 12 months a year.* And for that I thank them.
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