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2026 Best Cookie

Extra-Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookie at Manna Bakery

Saif Manna makes an array of elaborate, Levantine-inspired pastries, but this simple, technically perfect cookie is a top seller. Bite into its crisp, rippled perimeter and you’re met with warm caramel notes from the brown butter (made “extra” brown with toasted milk powder) and just enough sweetness from hunks of Guittard dark chocolate, plus Valrhona dark milk chocolate, balanced with miso. By the time you reach the chewy center, it’ll ruin all other cookies for you. Expect Manna’s Kensington shop to open soon. Read More »

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2022 Best Custom Cookies

Madison K Cookies

Sure, you can walk into this cute neon-lit NoLibs confectionery for ready-to-go candy, cupcakes and treats of all kinds. But where else can you get cookies featuring your favorite sitcom, your dog’s face or even your own face? Madison K is armed with icing and up to the challenge. Read More »

800 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA Website

2009 Best Cookie

Cookies by Diane

A mound of smooth peanut butter mousse sandwiched between two peanut butter wafers, then coated in dark chocolate and sprinkled with nuts, won our cookie-loving hearts this year. As one of our tasters put it: "Diane, you had us at peanut butter." Read More »

204 Ballymore Road, Springfield, PA | 610-544-9250 | Website

2013 Best Cookies

Isgro Pastries

Readers' Choice: As a co-worker noted, Someone should tell Michael Nutter if he wants to make Philadelphians happy, he should give them free cookies. It's true; people came out in droves. While we had doubts that a non-chocolate chip cookie could win, Isgro Pastries' butter sponge ricotta cookie with lemon icing got the gold. Read More »

1009 Christian Street, Philadelphia, PA | 215-923-3092 | Website