Top 5 cookies in Toronto
Published October 1, 2024 at 3:33 pm
Everyone loves cookies, but it’s a treat that’s majorly evolved over time, especially in Toronto. The question is no longer just whether you prefer chewy or crispy–now there are options topped with luscious icing and packed to the gills with all kinds of imaginative stuffings.
Here are the places where those with a sweet tooth go to satisfy their cookie cravings.
5 – Coco’s
Located on College Street, this popular community hub cafe is known for many things, but their baked goods and stunning chocolate chip cookie are definitely some of their showstoppers.
The chocolate chip cookie here is huge, bigger than your hand and absolutely loaded with tiny chocolate chips. It looks amazing, and tastes even better.
4 – Le Gourmand
This cafe at Spadina and Queen has been known for their baked goods in general for years with some truly stunning items, but their cookies are a jewel in their crown. The chocolate chip walnut cookie is especially popular, a large and very chunky cookie packed with delicious chocolate and nuts.
They also have chocolate chip cookies without nuts, and other cookie varieties like white chocolate macadamia, peanut butter and oatmeal raisin.
3 – Night Baker
This is a great option for cookies with more Filipino and Asian flavours, with options that incorporate ingredients like ube, pandan and matcha. They also have simple varieties made with chocolate chips or Oreos.
They’re known for their puffy, airy, pillowy soft cookies that have a very light texture, with a crispy outside and a fluffy but gooey inside.
2 – Craig’s Cookies
Multiple locations of this cookie empire in and around Toronto serve cookies stuffed with some of the most creative ingredients from candy to other whole desserts like an entire chunk of pie or butter tart.
The cookies are chunky mounds that feel very inviting to bite into, and the base chocolate chip cookie recipe used as the foundation for most cookies is nothing short of addictive.
This might be the shop with some of the wackiest options, like Cherry Blasters, apple pie, Mars Bar, peppermint patty and Pop Tart.
1 – Andrea’s
This newer reigning cookie queen of Toronto makes a mean sweet treat, serving cookies in rotating flavours. People have lined up down the block to try limited edition options like birthday cake, Mini Eggs, lemon poppyseed, chocolate knafeh, tiramisu, banoffee, key lime and strawberry milkshake.
The perfectly round, aesthetically pleasing cookies are a great balance between puffy and chewy, and cookies like the pumpkin spice and red velvet come topped with a rich cream cheese icing that’s just to die for.
