Best cookies: Hope's Cookies
After the Cupcake Truck’s visit, I decided to highlight some of my other favorite treats in and around the city. Today, cookies!
When I see people walking out of Reading Terminal Market with a big bag of Famous 4th Street Cookies, I shed a tear for them. Not because there’s anything wrong with 4th Street, but because they came so close to the best cookie in America, and walked away with something else.
That cookie is Hope’s Cookies. If you haven’t yet experienced the joy that is a Hope’s cookie, run to the Pennsylvania General Store at Reading Terminal Market today (it’s across from Metropolitan Bakery.) You can’t go wrong with a flavor. Their basics (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar, peanut butter) are superb versions of each. Their special creations (heath bar, Hope’s Royale — chocolate chip, coconut, macadamia nut, the Harvest cookie, and more) are must-trys for cookie fans. When I visit my sister in Boston for the weekend, I always bring her 18, because fewer than that would get finished before I left.
They sell them throughout the suburbs, and random places like the Denver Airport, and some mall in Florida with a skating rink, but the Reading Terminal location consistently turns out the best of the best. I almost think they mix a little extra butter in with the batter. They also make dark chocolate dipped versions of many of their cookies. My particular favorite there is the chocolate-dipped peanut butter — so good!
Pennsylvania General Store
Reading Terminal Market
12th and Arch Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Phone: 215.508.1881
