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Best Places For Cookies In Orange County

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Whether it is freshly baked and warm right out of the oven, donning sophisticated flavors and ingredients, or with ice cream in between, everyone loves a good cookie. Making a good cookie is a special endeavor though. Bakers use the highest quality ingredients, incorporating flavors and spices to elevate every bite of the cookie. While Orange County has its share of bakeries, it's the ones who have carefully crafted recipes that come out shining with winning cookies. Here are the best places to get cookies in Orange County.

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Donna B's
26022 Cape Drive
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 367-0100
donnabsbakery.com

Always baked fresh to order, Donna B's cookies are true top sellers in Orange County. Owner, baker and mom Donna B started her business 21 years ago, and today "the Cookie Lady" celebrates the success of her established bakery featuring 18 cookie flavors, cookie dough, brownies, custom decorated cakes and cupcakes. Favorites are Donna's chocolate chip (topped with extra chips), decadent cookie (baked with chocolate chips, butterscotch morsels, walnut pieces and coconut), marble (a hand twisted mash up of sugar and chocolate fudge cookie doughs) and snickerdoodle (kids love these).

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Blackmarket Bakery
The Camp
2937 Bristol St.
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 662-3095
www.blackmarketbakery.com

Known for her cookies and cookie sundaes, founder and Chef Rachel Klemek of Blackmarket Bakery brings her passion for baking and her love of eating cookies to the table. Named for the World War II black market baking goods of butter, flour, sugar and eggs, Blackmarket Bakery has a full lineup of cakes, cookies, pastries, tarts and brownies (made from wine flour). It's hard to resist the temptation of tasting each cookie at Blackmarket, but that being said, a few to start with are the one toff cookie (salty toffee and dark chocolate), cinnamon snick (Chef Rachel's take on a snickerdoodle), and coconut haystack (think coconut macaron and no flour added). Shortbread cookies including Caspian tea, pecan zesties and brown butter cocoa nib shorties are fantastic, and the bar cookie and sandwich assortments will make you go out of your mind (in a good way, of course).

Related: Best Ice Cream Parlors In Orange County

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Baking Betty's Gourmet Cookies
401 Newport Center Dr
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 640-2253
www.bakingbettys.com

If Baking Betty's knows how to do one thing right, it's certainly how to make great cookies. Baking Betty's is not your ordinary bakery! A unique bakery, they whisk up fresh cookies and treats one batch at a time ensuring that their classic and unique cookies are as tasty as can be. Best known for putting a twist on some of America's favorite cookie flavors, they create the most perfectly decadent flavors such as a Creme Brûlée cookie, a Pecan Pie cookie, Caramel Apple and their top selling S'more cookie. The menu is quite large, so you won't have a tough time finding something great here. Other great flavors include red velvet, gingersnap (seasonal) cookies, iced oatmeal, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, Reese's peanut butter cup and many many more.

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Stax
4187 Campus Dr
Irvine, CA 92612
(949) 861-2055
www.staxbakery.com

Indulge in a variety of hearty cookies at this Irvine outpost, including flavors like red velvet, peanut butter, chocolate chip walnut, white chocolate macadamia, Oreo stuffed chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, chocolate white chocolate, snickerdoodle, M&M, chocolate chip and more! They also offer special Stax cookie sandwiches, like their 'Smookie.' This warm, soft cookie dough is topped with ice cream and hot fudge or caramel. Or, opt for the Sweet Stax. With 2 cookies and 1 scoop of ice cream, it's simply delicious.

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Chunk-N-Chip
4th Street Market
201 E. 4th St.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
(714) 486-0700
www.4thstreetmarket.com

Chunk-N-Chip is downtown Santa Ana's incredible boutique dessert shop. At 4th Street Market, the area's inspired culinary hub, cookie lovers won't stop at just one when visiting Chunk-N-Chip. Self-described as serving small batch "artisan" cookies that are "over warm ooey-gooey" small batch cookies, Chunk-N-Chip utilizes natural ingredients, flavorful spices and a heaping dollop of creativity. The menu delights customers with novelty flavors (chipotle, bubble gum, buttermilk and graham cracker with marshmallow), classics (semi-sweet chocolate chip, chocolate brownie, M&Ms, and peanut butter), seasonal flavors (carrot cake, chocolate peppermint, gingerbread and pumpkin spice) and couture (brioche with gran marnier, champagne and rose almond). Vegan and gluten-free cookies are also available.

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Sheryl Craig is a writer with a passion for interesting finds and treasures in Los Angeles. She has a background in journalism and public relations. A mother of two daughters, Sheryl integrates her healthy lifestyle into raising her children. Her work can be found at Examiner.com

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