Review: Crumbs and Dollies NYC Cookies

Long time no see! I'm happy to finally be posting on the blog and this time I've decided to do something a little different. I'll be reviewing these NYC style cookies I ordered from Crumbs and Doilies Bakery in Soho. 

About a month ago Cupcake Jemma, (owner of Crumbs and Doilies) uploaded a video onto her YouTube channel, stating that the bakery planned to start shipping freshly baked cookies across the country (UK). But first they wanted to do a free trial run and make sure they had an efficient system in place. I signed up to bet notified and got an email informing me I had been selected to receive their taster cookies and the cookies were sent out to me couple of days later. My delivery of cookies came in a cardboard box and inside were six flavours of NYC style cookies; birthday cake, chocolate chip, red velvet, double chocolate, raspberry and white chocolate & oatmeal and lastly raisin. The cookies came in C&D original cardboard plastic and the cookies came placed in two thick brown paper bags (3 cookies in each bag) with the crumbs and dollies logo and inside both bags each cookie individually came in its own little brown paper bag inside. No plastic, yay! All cookies were made less then 24 hours prior to their delivery and were shipped to me via next day delivery via DPD.  Per the instructions provided on a brown piece of paper in the box I heated them in the oven at 170⁰C for 5 minutes to warm them up and had a little cookie feast with the fam.

A breakdown of each NYC cookie:

Birthday Cake: A nice vanilla cookie with sprinkles, white and caramelised white chocolate. This cookie was absolutely delicious and was by far one of my favourite cookie out of the 6. A downside to this cookie was that it lacked enough caramelised white chocolate but there was enough inside for me to know it was there. The cookie had a nice crumbly texture but soft on the inside and overall a nice golden colour.

Chocolate Chip: My second favourite cookie out of the batch, a soft and delicious cookie chucked full of chocolate chips, you couldn't miss one in every, bite which is a good thing! Two types of milk chocolate seemed to have been used in this cookie, One with a lower cocoa percentage and another with a slightly higher. The use of two chocolates of different cocoa percentages definitely enhanced the flavour of the cookie making it taste more rich. If you're a chocolate fan you'll deffo love this one. 

Red Velvet: This cookie had a touch of cocoa powder, and instead of the usual cream cheese you'd expect in a red velvet this cookie has white chocolate chips instead. This cookie had a nice subtle chocolate flavour, but was a little overpowered by the white chocolate. Nice red colour too. This was a good cookie, but for me it was a tad too sweet for my liking.

Double Chocolate: Hands down the best cookie I've ever had, and my favourite out the 6. This cookie was super dense and chocolatey, almost like a brownie. The black cocoa powder really gave it an extra kick in my opinion. there was a a complimentary sweet. The milk chocolate chips gave it the right amount of sweetness. This is a cookie i would highly recommend you try for yourself .

Raspberry and White Chocolate: Nice sweet and tart flavour thanks to the combo of raspberry and white chocolate. This cookie was nice to eat. It had a good crumbly texture and nice golden colour. This was my first time trying such a combo but I did enjoy but not enough for me to eat again.

Oatmeal and Raisin: I'm not a fan of this flavour personally, so I'm relying on my sister's taste buds here. She really enjoyed this cookie more than I did. She mentioned it had a sweet nutty flavour thanks to the oats and raisins at play in this cookie. She also mentioned compared to the other cookies this felt very filling almost like a breakfast biscuit you can get at the supermarket. If you enjoy flapjacks you'll definitely enjoy eating this cookie.

You can purchase the 6 NYC cookies on Cupcake Jemma's website here or the Crumbs and Dollies website here now for £27 pounds, with shipping at £6, depending on where you live in the UK. I hope they introduce the option to curate your own boxes of cookies in the future as there were some flavours I enjoyed more than others. These were absolutely delicious and I  recommend others give them a try.

Kristen xx