Celebrate National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day at these 6 Fayetteville area bakeries
August 4 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, and there is no better way to celebrate than enjoying the classic treat at a Fayetteville area bakery.
Whether it be milk chocolate or semi-sweet; chunks or chips; crispy-chewy or soft; large or small; area bakeries are serving their takes on the Massachusetts-born sweet.
Made with a few humble ingredients, the chocolate chip cookie has hardly changed since it was first developed in 1938 at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
Still, nothing quite compares to a chocolate chip cookie fresh out of the oven. Find out where to get your fix this National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day:
Superior Bakery
Superior Bakery owner Nick Poulos said his 2-inch in diameter chocolate chip cookies are made with unsalted sweet cream butter and milk chocolate chunks.
“The quality of the chocolate is the real key,” he said. “We don’t cut any corners.”
The Hope Mills Road bakery has served chocolate chip cookies since Poulos’s father opened it in 1956, but the current recipe has been used only for about a decade, he said.
“Nothing is prepackaged,” he said. “They’re baked fresh as we make them.”
Hours: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday.
Location: 2433 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville.
Phone: 910-424-4242
On the web: superiorbakerync.com
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Marci’s Cakes and Bakes
Cake decorator Hannah Davis said Marci’s Cakes and Bakes' chocolate chip cookies are “as big as your hand,” at 5 inches across.
“They are soft in the center, perfectly crisp on the outside,” she said, “and full of little chocolate chips so you get chocolate in every bite.”
Davis said the staff is focused on customer service, and enjoys when customers dine in.
“We’re like the family you didn’t know you needed,” she said.
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday; and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Location: 5474 Trade St., Hope Mills.
Phone: 910-425-6377
On the web: facebook.com/marciscakesandbakes
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Sweet Palette
Sweet Palette owner Patsy Crawford said her chocolate chip cookies are moist and chewy, full of chocolate chips and slightly crispy around the edges.
In honor of National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, the shop will also serve chocolate chip cookies with nuts, macarons with cookie dough filling and cupcakes with cookie dough icing, she said.
“We are going chocolate chip cookie crazy,” Crawford said.
She and her husband Del opened the shop in 2014. Her son, Adam Crawford is the baker.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Location: 101 Person St., Fayetteville.
Phone: 910-489-7342
On the web: thesweetpalette.com
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Blue Pineapple Bakery
Blue Pineapple Bakery owner Jenny Plyler said she uses her grandmother’s chocolate chip cookie recipe and a mix of milk chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
“What sets ours apart is that they maintain their softness,” she said.
With a sweet, molasses-like flavor from the brown sugar, it’s like “the chocolate chip cookie that your grandma would make,” Plyler said.
Blue Pineapple Bakery opened four years ago and specializes in custom cakes.
“We’re a from-scratch bakery. If you want it, we can make it,” Plyler said.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Closed Sunday and Monday.
Location: 1506 Purdue Drive, Fayetteville.
Phone: 910-987-2939
On the web: fayettevillecakes.com
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Sweet Tooth Shop
Sweet Tooth Shop owner Jaine Shannon said she bakes a triple chocolate chunk cookie with different types of chocolate chips. She also offers a sugar-free and low-carb chocolate chip cookie.
The veteran-owned bakery has served the area for nearly a decade. It also has coffee, ice cream, cheesecake and cupcakes.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Location: 4011 Sycamore Dairy Road, Suite 102, Fayetteville.
Phone: 910-868-1366
On the web: sweettoothshop.net
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Frosting’s Cake Shop
Though cupcakes reign supreme at Frosting’s, the bright pink shop offers chocolate chip cookies, too.
Solomon Miller and his wife Palaran opened the bakery in 2016 when they decided to turn her passion for baking into a business, Miller said.
“We are a family-owned local cake shop where desserts are made fresh daily from scratch,” he previously told the Observer.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday Closed Sunday.
Location: 3350 Footbridge Lane, Fayetteville
Phone: 910-916-1711
On the web: facebook.com/FrostingsCakeshop
Food, Dining and Business Reporter Taylor Shook can be reached at tshook@gannett.com.
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