I seek confections where the cookie is the star, not the chocolate (although it should be lovely, dark and deep, as Frost used to say sipping his hot chocolate on his rocking chair). Lately, what we tend to get – good bakeries, I’m looking at you – is molten chocolate with cookie chips. These have their place, but their place often ends up being a chocolate coating all around your fingers.
Where are the cookies studded with (good) chocolate chips?
I tend not to like chocolate chip cookies for the very reason you’ve listed. They’re ok (especially salted ones) but they tend to be very chocolate forward that I think loses the point of it being a cookie. If I wanted a chocolate bar, I would have bought a chocolate bar. I have no good recommendation for you, but I am lamenting with you.
What are the sources of the GBA chocolate chip cookies you don’t like?
My young adult son loves the chocolate chip cookies from Michette in Somerville and from Elmendorf in Cambridge.
But I suspect both of these cookies might fall into the molten chocolate category you dislike.
Today, La Saison on Concord. Recently, Hi Rise and Formaggio Kitchen. I did my homework before I posted and did note your praise of Michette. It’s a bit far from us but Elmendorf is closer and I will try it.
@kobuta, I appreciate the support. These are gooey times for people like us.
The Michette cookie has a bit of rye flour in it. It has a nice, complex flavor that my young adult son would not have appreciated when he was a few years younger. Michette is just a bit east of the McGrath and close to Assembly. The older adult male in the household loves baguettes and thinks the Michette is his favorite.
I understand the chocolate overload problem and I really dislike overly sweet cookies in general . My son hates melted chocolate on his hands and neither of his 2 favorites do that. I like the Elmendorf cookie so much that when we go to purchase baking supplies, we get two of their ccc, one for my husband and me to split. This is the only cookie my husband will eat.
Thanks @Madrid . I’ll investigate.
I don’t eat cookies but I live with 2 cookie monsters. Cookie Jr. likes the “lovely chocolate chip cookie” from Butternut Bakehouse in Arlington. No gooeyness as far as I can surmise. And, of course, he likes them from Cookie Time in Arlington (but they are not sophisticated cookies, as befits you @fooddabbler).
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My wife’s.
Available to residents of my house and friends only, sorry!
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I’m not sure if Levain is what you are looking for because they are so different than a ‘regular’ CC cookie but they are pretty great if you are willing to go to Newbury Street and stand in line.
I second the elmendorf recommendation. I know exactly what you mean about the excessive chocolate issue!
Thanks, all.
I like Clear Flour’s, as the cookie/chocolate ratio seems right to me. People love the ones at Salt in Newton Centre, and I adore almost everything else there, but there’s just way too much chocolate. It’s like a disk of chocolate surrounded by a cookie shell. That’s not what I want in a chocolate chip cookie.
Thanks. Although I’ve had many things there I don’t think I’ve ever tried their chocolate chip cookie. There’s so much else there that’s always tempted me more.
I know it might be a trip, but if you’re ever in Salem, try Caramel French Patisserie. Their chocolate chip cookie is definitely cookie forward. Place is generally very strong with fancy French style pastries, and good breakfast choices.
I was in Belmont yesterday, and between the market and the bakeries on the street I did some chocolate chipping. Here are the contenders:
Thanks for your outstanding research!
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You are to be commended for your contributions to society with this research!
I agree. I may be waddling, not walking, by the end of this quest, but surely there’s a Nobel in it somewhere.
