There aren’t many things more satisfying than discovering a really good cookie, all chewy and soft and perhaps made for fillings of billowy blow-torched meringue, creamy cereal milk buttercream or, if you like your sweet sarnie infinitely grown-up, a dollop of darkly roasted, coffee cream cheese. Who knew the humble biscuit could get any better?!
These are London’s best cookie sandwiches… requires two hands, extra napkins and someone to witness your overjoyed face.
Peanut cookie sandwich: Potter & Reid
Soft, crumbly shortbread biscuits studded with salty peanuts and swirled elegantly with tangy-sweet strawberry buttercream and jam… a reminder of another really nice sandwich – PB jelly.
20-22 Toynbee St, London E1 7NE
Chocolate cookie sandwich: Meringue Girls
Double chocolate cookies with a crunchy edge giving way to a soft, slightly melted centre, a whirl of toasted meringue and generously salted caramel… made for messy eating as the best desserts always are.
Unit 1 Broadway Market, London E8 4TS (Saturdays only)
Hazelnut cookie sandwich: Pearl & Groove
Brownie cookies, their outer finely crisp yet centre damply fudgy, smothered with silky chocolate buttercream, Nutella and rolled in chopped hazelnuts for added texture.
30 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE
Blueberry cheesecake biskie: Cutter & Squidge
Soft and buttery biscuits layered with tangy blueberry cream cheese, oozy blueberry jam, a crunchy digestive and topped with a drizzle of white chocolate, freeze-dried blueberries plus white chocolate pearls…
the perfect, pick-me-up treat when in Soho and feeling rather overwhelmed by the crowds.
20 Brewer St, London W1F 0SJ
Cereal cookie sandwich: Dolly’s Sticks
The sweetest sarnie composed of white chocolate sprinkle cookies, creamy cereal milk buttercream, Lucky Charms cereal before being dipped in white chocolate, rainbow sprinkles and extra cereal so yes, this is breakfast thank you.
London markets including Lower Stable Street Market
Espresso cookie sandwich: Kaffeine
Coffee cream cheese using Kaffeine’s very own house espresso dolloped between fudgy, bitterly dark brownie cookies… this is rich in a ‘I won’t need any more caffeine’ sort of way.
66 Great Titchfield St, London W1W 7QJ
Cookie dough cookie sandwich: Blondies Kitchen
Spoonably soft brownie dough with dark chocolate chips and scooped between thin, moreishly chewy vanilla cookies for extra childhood delight… an off-menu item you may, or may not, want to know about.
Selfridges Food Hall, 400 Oxford St, London W1A 1AB
