Photograph by Andrew Doench
Old Fashioned Gingerbread
While the banana pudding and cheesecake at Makers Bakers Co. are probably the most popular, the gingerbread deserves some love. These crisp, warm cookies with a kick of spice are perfect to munch on a chilly day. They’re available in man and house form, so feel free to decorate and customize an entire cookie village. • 1801 Rave St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 807-9748
Sobacha Chocolate Chunk Cookie
Elaine Uykimpang Bentz’s ability to elevate basic pastries at Cafe Mochiko—including chocolate chip cookies—has put her on the map nationally. The cookie gets its name from the baked-in sobacha, a Japanese buckwheat tea, and giant chunks of fair trade Valrhona milk chocolate. If that wasn’t enough, toasted hazelnuts, Japanese sea salt, and sesame seeds top the dessert for a salty, umami finish. • 1524 Madison Rd., East Walnut Hills, (513) 559-1000
Chocolate Chip Bomb
Sugar Chef/Owner Andrea Sutton Lee’s signature all-natural chocolate chip cookie is coated in a thick layer of semisweet chocolate chips resulting in the half-pound Bomb that Cincinnati’s sweet tooths know and love. You can even add toppings like sprinkles, chocolate sauce, frosting, or ice cream if you so choose. • 6 W. 14t St., Over-The-Rhine, (513) 884-0787
Turkish Coffee Chocolate Chip
Like everything at Happy Chicks Bakery, these warm, spicy cookies are completely plant based, but you’d never know. The combination of coffee, cinnamon, cardamom, and chocolate chips in the crisp shortbread transports you to a café at an open spice market. They’re also great for dipping into the hot beverage of your choice. • 4035 Hamilton Ave., Northside, (513) 386-7990
S’mores Cookie
Little Spoon Bakery and Café serves up all kinds of cookies, cupcakes, macarons, and other pastries, but the S’mores cookie is one of the best. The thick and chewy treat takes its equally delicious chocolate chip cookie dough to the campfire with marshmallows, squares of Hershey’s chocolate, and pieces of graham cracker. It’s a perfect pre-movie snack before heading upstairs to the Newport AMC. • 1 Levee Way Suite 2120, Newport, (859) 652-3150
Black Raspberry Chip Stuffed Cookie
Eliza Jane’s BakeShop has a strong portfolio of fun oversized pastries. The black raspberry chip stuffed cookie is like biting into the pastry equivalent of the city’s favorite ice cream flavor. Fruity but not overpowering, tart but not sour, sweet but not sickeningly so, its richness coming from the chocolate chips. If that wasn’t enough, it’s also stuffed with a vanilla cheesecake filling. • 1811 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, (513) 823-9423
Rugelach
The rugelach at Sweet Butter Bakery are a bubbe’s dream. These traditional Jewish pastries—available in a number of combinations like cinnamon and raisin, almond and apricot, and raspberry and chocolate chip—are like small crescent rolled cookies with a filling inside, from a recipe that pastry chef Erika Hecht got from a family friend. They’re soft, chewy, and have flavor bursting through both the filling and dough thanks to Hecht’s secret—making the dough with half butter and half cream cheese. You can find her pastries at place like Marx Bagels, Reading Farmers’ Market, and Wyoming Community Coffee. • 611 Shepherd Dr., Lockland, (513) 225-9722
Facebook Comments