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St. Louis Magazine has been singing this woman's praises for years--and rightly so. Sure, there are other custom cookie makers in town, but none have a better tasting baseline shortbread cookie than Colleen Thompson of Colleen's Cookies. Having finally outgrown her small production kitchen in Chesterfield, she's ready to fully test the retail waters. She'll hang her shingle at 7337 Forsyth (the former home of Casadilla) on or about June 1.
Over the years, I've had numerous conversations with Thompson, asking if and when she would ever open an actual store. Her stock answer: "It takes a lot of $2 cookies to pay commercial rent." Yeah, but just try to get off her website having ordered just one cookie. Impossible. Her product mix has always been creative and broad, with cookie ideas for every conceivable person, occasion, and event. Our favorite item? A tossup between the St. Louis "City" collection and the St. Louis "Cardinal" collection.
The store will also have a bakery case with grab-and-go cookies as well as specialty items, like Key Lime Tarts and "Whoopie Pies," a 3" split cake (apparently of Amish ancestry) with the icing slathered between the layers.
I have suggested she carry some kind of "napkin bib," for those of us whose treats only make it as far as our driver's seat. -- George Mahe
