Where To Find The Best Cookies In London: Big Chunky Ones

Walk into a bakery in London right now, and you're bound to spot them - chunky, golden and as big as your hand, we're talking about New York-style cookies. Two amazing women, Pam and Connie, started the craze in their tiny NYC basement bakery way back when - it's fair to say that America fell in love with these giant, chunky, gooey cookies, but why?

Girth – A classic New York cookie is a girthy beast, weighing in at around 170g – they feel more like an ethereal experience than a cookie. 

Crunchy or gooey – Texture is everything here - every wannabe bakery thinks making NYC cookies is easy; as long as they stay fat and chunky, the taste is very much secondary. When we decided to launch our Flavourtown New York-style cookies in 2019, we came up with a list of non-negotiables':

o They had to be the best cookies in London

o They had to have the perfect crunchy-on-the-outside and gooey-in-the-middle texture

o They had to taste like an EXPERIENCE

o They had to be made with world-class ingredients and LOADS of quality chocolate

We wanted Londoners to have the full bells and whistles experience of eating a New York cookie – the crunchy exterior and that gooey 'just-baked' centre, oozing with melted Belgian and Italian chocolate chips, it sounds far-fetched and exaggerated, but when these cookies are made right, it's the perfect explosion of taste and texture.

The basic premise of making New York-style cookies is that you bake them at a high temperature for a short time, and this 'sets' the dough and stops it from spreading as much. The amazing Flavourtown bakers have turned this cookie chemistry into an artform – ingredients have to be at the right temperature, they monitor every batch to make sure the butter and sugar don't get too familiar with each other, the eggs are at the right temperature and that our secret blend of different types of organic flour incorporates for just long enough to make sure Flavourtown cookies keep their signature chunk.  

Our balls – we don't use cookie depositor machines or conveyor belts – our cookies are balled by hand one at a time – our bakers carefully weigh the dough, gently press it together and form our NYC balls of deliciousness. 

Londoners went to New York and tried Pam and Connie's cookies, and they wanted them back at home; they wanted them so bad – we wanted to eat them so bad – so we spent months and months obsessing over making a perfect UK version: Small-batch, high-quality baking, amazing chocolate from Belgium and Italy and a secret recipe.

Flavourtown New York-style Cookies are dramatic, rich, indulgent and undeniably Instagrammable – you bite into them, and you instantly need to share how damn good this cookie is with your mates. 

In a city like London, where people know their food, they expect more from a treat; they want it to be worth the calories, made from amazing natural ingredients, and they want it to be indulgent. The New York cookie feels like the right kind of indulgence – it's part nostalgia, part 'wow', but it's also a grown-up dessert crafted with care and passion. 

You find them in a gift box that lands on someone's desk and makes their week, in the middle of the table at a team meeting that suddenly gets a bit more interesting or delivered to your best mate on her birthday, because you know how excited she'll get when she sees the pink Flavourtown box. 

We've built the Flavourtown New York Cookie lineup around moments like these. You can order our NYC-style Cookies for delivery across London to all areas and postcodes inside the M25 or collect them from our Fulham Cake Shop. 

They arrive in our iconic neon pink gift box, each cookie in its own recyclable heat-sealed sleeve – built for gifting (even if the gift is to yourself)

If you want to order the best cookies in London, in amazing flavours like our iconic best-selling Milk Choc Chip, Black Velvet or our stuffed Nutella, Biscoff or Red Velvet Cookie flavours - place you order now, you only need as little as 48 hours notice.