The best part about baking cookies is spooning that sugary, buttery delightful dough straight from the mixing bowl, and the best Ben & Jerry’s is still vanilla ice cream studded with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough. But London chefs have come up with creative ways to deliver ready-to-eat cookie dough to your tummy, from the raw and purest variety scooped into tubs to warm cookie dough stacks with towering toppings – the options are endless and deliciously indulgent. These are the best places in London for cookie dough…
Blondies Kitchen
The UK’s only milk and cookie bar, Blondies Kitchen is best known for giant American-sized cookies coupled with jugs of cereal milk. But with cookies so craveable, the blond-baking geniuses decided to serve their perfected cookie dough mix straight from a convenient little container, safe and fused with massive mix-ins such as chocolate buttons or bite-sized brownie chunks. Whichever you choose, every mouthful is more-ish, buttery and a bit of heaven.
Address: 400 Oxford St, London W1C 1JT (inside Selfridges Foodhall)
Naked Dough
After New York’s cookie dough café took the city by storm, cookie partners in crime Jen and Hannah knew London needed this too. Crowds of curious cookie lovers quickly formed queues at their pop-up in Old Street Station, which paved the way for three permanent locations across London. Primely positioned in Westfield’s shopping centres and Camden Market, Naked Dough specializes in scoops of raw cookie dough in cheerful names: Nak-Ed Sheeran (salted caramel and honeycomb), Mud Bath (chocolate-based cookie dough with chocolate chips) and I Dough (white chocolate chips). My kind of marriage.
Address: 702 Camden Lock Pl, London NW1 8AF
MyCookieDough
Taking indulgence to new heights, MyCookieDough combines your favourite desserts into layers of warm, melt-in-your-mouth cookie dough. Flavours span from single sheets of cookie dough decked with Nutella cheesecake or caramac to stacks maxed out with multiple layers. Try the sl***y brownie (milk and triple chocolate cookie dough, oreos and Nutella), banoffee cookie dough bringing you all the best bits of the pie (dulce de leche, whipped cream and bananas) on biscoff and triple chocolate cookie dough, or my personal favourite, caramac-covered cookie dough with melted white chocolate chips inside. Bring your appetite.
Address: Ariel Way, London W12 7GF or Montfichet Rd, London E20 1EJ (inside Westfield)
HumbleDough
Swapping sugar for freeze-dried fruits and ditching the butter in their dough, HumbleDough serves consciously-minded cookie dough suitable for a vegan and gluten-free diet. But you don’t need to follow any food restrictions to appreciate these towering tubs with classic feel-good flavour combinations, including strawberries and cream (elevated with chocolate shards), chocolate orange (freshened with whipped coconut cream) and lemon meringue pie topped with a visually-stunning vegan meringue. And with oats forming the base, HumbleDough is definitely acceptable for breakfast.
Address: 72 Golborne Rd, London W10 5PS
Chin Chin Dessert Club
From liquid nitrogen ice cream to torched marshmallow hot chocolates and brownie sandwiches, Chin Chin satisfies social media feeds and the sweet tooth crowd with its unapologetic approach to dessert. Their “warmie” is a best-seller for good reason: rich, gooey and warm cookie dough dotting with melted chocolate chips, balanced nicely with a scoop of tonka bean vanilla ice cream. Did I mention it’s vegan?
Address: 54 Greek St, London W1D 3DS
