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Before Momofuku’s Compost - there was Lisa’s kitchen sink

I was all set to post about the desserts from my trip to the wine country including Frank Bruni’s spouse favorite Ubuntu, when a giant box landed at my door. The box which made all of DessertBuzz worldwide headquarters smell like a French bakery at 5:00 a.m. was from Lisa’s Cookies in Warwick, NY. Lisa earned some serious street cred last summer when her chocolate chip cookies were featured by Florence Fabricant in the NY Times.

First off, lets be real clear. These are serious cookies. Great thought must have been put into the flavors and ingredients. The “Kitchen Sink” cookie makes liberal use of coconut, high end dark chocolate chunks and cranberries. Though they have an oatmeal base they are really oatmeal cookies for grown-ups. Slightly crunchy on the outside and highly textured on the inside. Despite having tasted cookies from all the high-end bakeries in New York this particular cookie is distinctive. I’d love to know what Lisa thinks of the Milk Bar compost cookie (which I noticed is now trademarked).

In terms of value, Lisa’s cookies offer a shockingly good deal: 7 Large-ish cookies for $7.25. Shipping will add to that but you could easily swing by Warwick, NY or one of the stores that carries the cookies. Hopefully, she’ll get a channel for a delivery to NYC one day.

I’ll report on some of the other products from Lisa’s cookies as I get to stuff my face with them. Including a report from a local cycling team who got their hands on a half-dozen Pecan coconut bars before their first race of the season.

Lisa's cookies pecan coconut bars about to be eaten

Posted by nikonice on Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pm.

11 Responses to “Before Momofuku’s Compost - there was Lisa’s kitchen sink”

those cookies sound awesome. hopefully taste better than they look. must be nice to be a food blogger…gettin that free stuff and all!

Left by jonny on March 17th, 2009

You obviously are a rookie cookie eater - they look good and taste good. The matte finish tells you there isn’t a stupid amount of butter in them. That would indicate a baker trying to cover for lack of good quality chocolate or other shortcuts…

Left by nikonice on March 17th, 2009

sorry, it’s just the ones on top look more like road apples than cookies. im sure they are tasty. BTW, i find momofuku’s cookies to be highly overrated. the food (and desserts) in the proper restaurant are good and inventive tho. Milk bar’s desserts seem mostly to be inventive for inventiveness sake.

Left by jonny on March 17th, 2009

The desserts at Ssam bar and Noodle bar are, as I have posted, overrated - especially the soft serve ar Ssiam bar but I do like the cookies. The Compost with the melted marshmallow or candy bar (or maybe it’s the milk solids as one reader suggested to me) I feel is first rate. I think it tastes different than most other high-end cookies in the city and that’s not an easy thing to do. Some of the other cookies I would agree are just for experimentation. Have you tried the “crack” pie? I am not a huge fan of overly sweet desserts but nearly all my friends are unanimous that it is delicious.

Left by nikonice on March 17th, 2009

yeah, i thought the crack pie was just overly sweet. nothing “crack-like” about it IMHO.

Left by jonny on March 17th, 2009

Have you tired any of those more involved cakes there?

Left by nikonice on March 19th, 2009

i had the key lime cake. it was tremendously huge. really good. but they seem to be obsessed with using cream cheese in everything (the good cinnamon bun pie has it as well) and for me it’s a bit creamcheesy overload. tho it was yumlicious…hard to get thru a whole piece. had to do it in two shifts

Left by jonny on March 19th, 2009

Dude, I have to get some pics of all this stuff so I can post your micro-reviews. I have never had that there I didn’t even know they had it actually. Two shifts is the way to go. I am on about 10 shifts for cookies that have been sent recently.

Left by nikonice on March 19th, 2009

i bet if u contact the places and explain what you’re doing they may send u some pics. or let u come in and just snap everything real quick. u can just keep pics in reserve for whenever u have a review ready of something….it may work

Left by jonny on March 19th, 2009

you’re all a bunch of snooty know-it-all whiney bitches. overrated? overpriced? didn’t live up to your expectations? (1) who the f__k are you that you think you know desserts better than a bunch of professional pastry chefs, (2) can you even cook anything besides instant noodles or bake even a basic loaf of bread without “no-knead” cheating? and do it day after day, standing in front of a hot oven from 5 AM to 11 PM? go eat a big bowl of d__k. and f__ yelp.

Left by NYCpastrycook on May 22nd, 2009

NYC Pastrychef,

Maybe NYC is not the place for you. My site is one of, if not the tamest food blogs out there - it’s 99.9 praise of all things dessert - most of my posts celebrate these hard working people. Did you even read any of the other reviews? If you think my blog is too hard or too whiny then move some place where everyone gives out fake praise and politeness. I am not going to apologize for the 2-3 posts out of 200 that are faintly critical. If your comments were directed at the commenter’s and not my site in general than my bad.

Left by nikonice on May 22nd, 2009

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Before Momofuku’s Compost - there was Lisa’s kitchen sink

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