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A Delicious Dubai Chocolate Cookie at Andrea’s Cookies

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Dubai Chocolate Cookie at Andrea's Cookies
Location: 166 Ossington Avenue, Toronto
Website: https://andreascookies.com/

The last time I tried a cookie from Andrea’s, I’ll admit that I liked it but didn’t love it.  I’m just not generally a fan of the type of underbaked-on-purpose cookies that they serve here.

The cookie I just had, however?  Phenomenal.  Seriously, seriously good.

Dubai Chocolate Cookie at Andrea's Cookies

I got the knafeh, which is basically their take on the Dubai chocolate craze that’s slowly taking over the world (“milk & dark chocolate, phyllo, pistachio cream, pistachios”).

Dubai Chocolate Cookie at Andrea's Cookies

Oof, it’s good.  With a chocolatey cookie like this (particularly with all the stuff they’ve crammed into it and onto it), my issues with an underbaked cookie completely disappear.  This cookie was pleasantly soft, but had none of the raw flour flavour or gumminess that can plague these types of cookies.

That’s not to mention the the crispy bits of kadayif, which do a great job of bringing the soft cookie some texture.

Dubai Chocolate Cookie at Andrea's Cookies

And of course, the combo between the very chocolatey cookie and the rich pistachio cream is a big winner.  It helps that they’re clearly using good quality chocolate, but it’s easily one of the better cookies I’ve had in a while.

Tasty Treats at Andrea’s Cookies

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Andrea's Cookies
Location: 1632 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Website: https://andreascookies.com/

I’ve been wanting to try Andrea’s Cookies for a while.  I actually tried to get a cookie a few months back, only to find that they were entirely sold out.  Disappointing, but also, I figured, a good sign.

They’re popular enough to have recently expanded, with a second location on Ossington, though I visited just before that one opened.

Andrea's Cookies

They have several very interesting flavours that they rotate through (on my visit, they had intriguing varieties like almond croissant and coconut cream pie), but on my first visit to a cookie shop, I’ve gotta get the old standby: chocolate chip or chocolate chunk.

It was chunk, in this case, and it was clearly quite fresh, with the chocolate being delightfully gooey.  You can’t go wrong there.

Andrea's Cookies

Aside from the generous amount of good quality chocolate, the cookie itself was not too sweet (with a nice — but not overapplied — hit of salt to balance things out), and a delicately crispy exterior.

The cookie is basically a much better version of Crumbl, in that they serve big fat cookies that have been way underbaked on purpose.  This isn’t my favourite type of chocolate chip cookie; I like a chewy cookie as much as the next guy, but the gummy texture, not to mention the mild raw flour taste, isn’t particularly my jam.  But if you like that, this is a better-than-average version of it.