A Guide to 5 Christmas Cookies Perfect for Gifting This Merry Season

Where to buy: Mood Bake online, pop-up stores at Greenbelt 5 and Glorietta 4

Mood Bake is new to the line of cookie chains in Metro Manila, but it’s making itself known with its chunky chocolate chip cookies. The cookies have a crumbly exterior, but once you take a bite, you’d taste the decadent and moist chocolates incorporated in them. The box already comes in a pretty minimalist pastel packaging so you don’t have to worry about wrapping it. Other cookie variants available are matcha and double choco.

Glorietta: Ride the MRT and get off at Ayala Station. Walk towards SM Makati as it is interconnected with Glorietta

Greenbelt: Ride the MRT to Ayala Station. Once you arrive at the station, walk inside SM Makati. The mall is interconnected to Greenbelt, so walk along until you get to it.

Where to buy: The Wholesome Table, 30th St Corner 7th Ave Bonifacio High Street Central, Taguig

Like its name suggests, The Wholesome Table aims to provide treats that are not just good-tasting but also good for the body. Each artisanal baked good is nut-free, refined sugar-free, and vegan. For your loved ones who are health and fitness enthusiasts, trying giving the double oatmeal cookies. It is made with eggs, apricots, dried cranberries, cashews, nutmeg, cinnamon, rolled oats, sea salt, and coconut sugar. Other treats you can choose from are brownie bars, cupcakes, and cakes.

How to go to The Wholesome Table: Ride the MRT to Ayala Station. Exit the station on the northbound side. From there, you will find a BGC Bus terminal. Buy a ticket to the bus heading to Market! Market! The fare is PhP12. Get off at BGC High Street.

Where to buy: Famous Amos outlets

Since 1975, Famous Amos’ cookies have been a favorite of many American generations. In the past, the world-famous treats were found in grocery stores in the Philippines, but they disappeared. Luckily, just this 2019, the cookie chain came back to the country—welcome news for those who missed the brand’s freshly baked goods! The classic cookie that the store is known for is the no nut chocolate chip, which has semi-sweet chocolate chips. Other flavors to choose from are double chocolate chip pecan, chocolate white chocolate chip, oatmeal, butterscotch, chocolate chip pecan, white chocolate macadamia, and chocolate chip macadamia.

How to go to Famous Amos (SM North EDSA branch): Take the MRT-3 then get off at the North Avenue Station. The station is directly linked to Trinoma so enter the mall and then use the connecting bridgeway between Trinoma and SM North EDSA to get to the latter. Famous Amos is located on the ground floor.

Where to buy: Flour Jar, Unit C, Pilar Development Corporation, Rose Ave, Pilar Village, Las Piñas

Price: PhP70 each

Flour Jar’s cookies are chunky goodies filled with melt-in-your-mouth chocolate. The rich gooey filling alone can make any sweet tooth drool. One of their most popular flavors is the Belgian chocolate chip which is made with Callebaut dark chocolate chips, pure vanilla, and pure sea salt. In total there are 11 cookie flavors to choose from: dark chocolate chewy, Reese peanut butter chip, salted caramel chip, Reese dark chocolate chewy, chewy oatmeal raisin, Nutella lava, cocomango loco, dark chocolate chewy, breakfast campfire, overload chocolate chip, and chewy chocolate oatmeal.

How to go to Flour Jar: Ride the MRT to Taft Station. Go down the station and look for an Alabang Zapote jeepney. Alight at Jollibee and Tas Transit. Ride a jeepney going straight to the road between the two establishments. Get off at South Scissors Professional. Walk along the street and you’ll see Flour Jar.

Where to buy: Scout’s Honor, Hole In The Wall, 4/F Century City Mall, Kalayaan Ave, Poblacion, Makati

Price: PhP135 each

Even if you can’t bake, you can still make your gift personalized thanks to Scout’s Honor’s craft cookie shop concept. You can start by choosing the kind of dough: basic chewy cookie, double chocolate fudge, molasses oatmeal cookie, vegan cookie, peanut butter cookie, and herbed shortbread cookie. Meanwhile, the cookie toppings you can choose from include dried fruits, sweets, cream cheese, chocolates, and trail mix. If you’re not into creating cookies, you can buy their ready made cookies in the following flavors: matcha sesame, cookie inception, cereal cookie bar, and s’mores tag-alongs.

How to go to Scout’s Honor: Ride the MRT-3 and alight at Guadalupe Station. Exit at the southbound side of EDSA. From there, ride a jeepney with an “Ayala JP Rizal Makati Ave Guad Ibabaw” sign. Pay the minimum fare and alight at Makati cor Kalayaan, which is past A Venue Mall. Walk along Kalayaan Avenue to get to Century City Mall. It is the C-shaped building. Scout’s Honor can be found on the fourth floor.

These cookies will be sweet gifts that anyone would love to receive this Christmas.

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