Last week, I posted about Fleur de Sel cookies.
This week, I was finally able to try Baked SoCal cookies. It was extremely difficult to get these. Its more of a "pop-up" she cooks at home then you pick up on a corner in Santa Monica. One of those TikTokers called it the best cookies in LA.
Anyway, heres my thoughts and comparison to Fleur et Sel. 3 cookies on the left in the pic are from Baked SoCal, 1 cookie on the right is from Fleur de Sel.
Size/weight/composition: similar size/weight between the two. Fleur de Sel has the round mound in the center some people didn't like. Fleur de Sel is packed more with chips/M&Ms/toppings, while the one Baked SoCal cookie Ive had so far was more homogenous but with the apples and drizzle on top.
Taste:both great and equal. Fleur de Sel is more cookie/cake combo, while Baked SoCal is more typical cookie.
Price: Fleur de Sel is around $6 each, Baked SoCal is $10
Ease of access: Fleur de Sel has a storefront with set hours. Baked SoCal has a virtual queue that opens at 11am on Sundays for the drop that week. Gotta get extremely lucky to be amongst the first 50 in line (Ive seen the queue be into the 400s). If you get lucky enough to get in, gotta be quick with selections and checkout before they sell out. Seems she baked throughout the week with Wednesday/Sunday night 5pm pick up in Santa Monica.
Tip for obtaining Baked SoCal: after trying unsuccessfully for many weeks, I realized I needed to up my probability. Had Chrome/Edge windows open on my desktop, my 2nd workstation, my iPad, my old iPad, and my iPhone. Basically, I went from 1 ticket to 10 tickets. One of my screens was lucky enough to be around the 40th position.
by anomerica
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$10 per? crazy
I remember when cookies were the working man’s dessert
It was fun for a bit but I couldn’t be more over the whole hopping online at specific times to line up to order foods thing. There are too many fantastic places with great products that just open and close like a normal business to spend time with that any more.
Lol $10 for a cookie made at home
A really solid chocolate chip cookie is probably my favorite dessert, but I’m not setting up multiple screens like I’m trying to score concert tickets just to get a $10 cookie.
Thanks for doing it so we don’t have to OP!
Fleur de sel looks like the crap the middle school kids are bringing back from the “culinary” class. Dafuq they doing sell that?
I can’t wait until this trend dies.
I’m looking at thirty-six dollars’ worth of cookies here? i hope objects on the cutting board are larger than they appear…
How does it compare to Levain?
Any time I eat one of these bougie cookies I find them way too sweet. Idk maybe I’m just eating the wrong ones. The ones in the OP definitely look like too much for me.
That Flur de Sel looks like garbage. The other one looks like it’s too sugary to actually taste. A sucker pays 10 for a single cookie.