The Ultimate Guide To The Best Cookies In Austin
My “best cookies in Austin” guide was due for an update! I am absolutely a Cookie Monster. It's hands-down teh dessert I would rather have over, well, pretty much anything else. I’ve been eating cookies around Austin for years, taking mental notes, taking photos, and remembering what to include in a round up of the best cookies in Austin.
When I first wrote this cookie guide to Austin there were only a handful of really good cookies in Austin. But now in 2026? Pretty much every single bakery, coffee shop, and restaurant makes their own cookie from scratch, and they're all good. It's not hard to find a great chocolate chip cookie in Austin.
So I simply included some of the most unique, memorable, please-don't-visit-austin-without-trying-it cookies that I've tried over the past 12+ years in this town.
Enjoy this round up of some of the greatest cookies in the city of Austin!
Ultimate Guide To The Best Cookies In Austin
Updated for 2026! RIP Henbit. 🙁 The Super Baked Cookie at Soup Peddler used to be my #1, but in the last few years it's declined in quality. It tastes less rich and buttery, and more grainy/floury. Also, there are SO many good, rich chocolate chip cookies so I didn't include every single one. A few coffee shops that have phenomenal chocolate chip cookies Swedish Hill and Merit Coffee. Also worth note: farmers markets and home bakers typically make the best chocolate chip cookies, but they're harder to find because you have to pre-order or show up on weekend mornings before they sell out. Go support them if it works into your schedule! If you just need a quick stop on a random Tuesday afternoon, here are some of my favorite cookies in Austin.
Halva Chocolate Chip Cookie at Rockman Coffee + Bakeshop
Amanda Rockman is a famous pastry chef in Austin, and in 2025 she opened her own bakeshop and coffee shop in east Austin. THEEEESE COOKIES, Y'ALL! Yes, they're pricey, so just deal with the sticker shock and pay up. The halva (tahini) and sesame seeds sprinkles on top add just a tiny bit of nuttiness, but they're generally just sweet, dense, perfectly buttery chocolate chip cookies (with a twist). Amanda uses real butter in all her recipes and top notch ingredients, hence the price. Worth it for a splurge, I swear! *Note: line will be insane on Saturdays and Sundays!
WEBSITE | 2400 E Cesar Chavez St Ste 200
Chocolate Chip Cookie at Tiny Boxwood’s
I KNOW I KNOW Tiny Boxwood's is technically from Houston, not Austin, but If you’re looking for the perfect classic chocolate chip cookie, Tiny Boxwood’s is still the best. This is a totally classic chocolate chip cookie style: medium-sized, a little chewy around the edges, soft on the inside, loaded with high quality chocolate chips, and always served warm from the oven.
There’s nothing exceptionally unique about this one (it is just a chocolate chip cookie, after all…), but often when someone is looking for "the best cookie" they don't want an 1/2 pound gooey cookie or a Nutella cookie or a frosted sugar cookie...they just want A CLASSIC CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE. This is it.
WEBSITE | 1503 W 35th St
Chocolate Chunk Cookie at Better Half
I loooove a cookie that has generous amounts of chocolate chunks. (I mean, why would a bakery skimp???) Better Half is an all-day coffee shop, cocktail bar, and eatery in downtown Austin, and they have an insane bakery program with *chefs kiss* the best pastries. I'm partial to their chocolate chunk cookie, which is a pretty big sized beauty with lots of big, square pieces of chocolate chunks and a visible sprinkle of coarse sea salt on top.
WEBSITE | 406 Walsh St
Buttercream Sugar Cookies at Hayley Cakes
Just looking at this picture makes me want to drive to Hayley Cakes right now and get one of these cookie and inhale it. They are soooo soft and fluffy and this bakery doesn't skimp on the big fluffy mount of buttercream frosting! I randomly started craving these during my second pregnancy and then (oops) turns out it's just a lifelong craving now.
Here's the trick: Hayley Cakes sells lots of buttercream cookies, but you have to order the flower or the rose buttercream cookies. Why? Because there's about 2X as much frosting on them in order to make the rose shape, and that makes the perfect frosting-to-cookie ratio. Trust me on this.
WEBSITE | Multiple locations
Macarons at La Patisserie
There are a couple places in Austin where you can buy authentic French macarons, but La Patisserie is my favorite. They are truly exceptional every time: light, delicate, a firm outer shell and a chewy interior, with fluffy frosting sandwiched between the two shells. I love buying little boxes of these as gifts!
WEBSITE | 602 W Annie St or 7301 Burnet Road Ste 102
Chewy Chocolate Cookie at Little Deli
Have y’all been to Little Deli? It’s a neighborhood gem pizza + deli tucked right into the middle of the Crestview neighborhood. (There's also a second location in Windsor Park). They serve amazing New Jersey style pizza and great deli sandwiches, but one of my favorite things about this place is their giant chewy chocolate cookie.
It’s homemade at the deli every day, and it’s DELICIOUS. It’s more of a brownie consistently – thick, rich, and chewy, with walnuts scattered throughout. Love this cookie.
WEBSITE | 7101-A Woodrow Ave
Anything from Tiff’s Treats
Basic, I know, but Tiffs Treats are still some of my favorite cookies in Austin! In case you live under a rock: Tiff’s Treats is a cookie delivery service. It’s great for sending birthday, anniversary, sympathy, or congratulatory packages to someone’s work or home. A surprise delivery of warm cookies from Tiff’s Treats totally brightens my day.
I love ’em all, but I’m especially keen to those snickerdoodles! Psst: these freeze really well! I learned that after I was given 3 dozen of them on one day.
Banana Nutella Stuffed Cookies at Thoroughbread
This sourdough bakery in the Zilker neighborhood has these insanely giant, gooey cookies. They're stuffed cookies (banana stuffed with Nutella, or peanut butter stuffed with jam) make the perfect instagram shot, but I'm telling you that they taste even better than they look.
The other two cookie varieties (chocolate chip and chocolate chip pecan) aren’t getting quite as much attention on the ‘gram, but they’re these giant, gooey, chocolate chip cookies that are worth getting, too. And if you happen to be able to buy one right after it came out of the oven? Your day will be made, my friend..
WEBSITE | 1709 Bluebonnet Ln
Vegan Oatmeal Cream Pie at Bouldin Creek Cafe
I don't follow a vegan lifestyle so I don’t usually seek out vegan cookies. But when a (non-vegan) friend told me how much she loves the “OCP at BCC,” I knew I had to try it out.
First off, they’re massive. These cookies are easily big enough to share! (Or make a meal out of it..) The thick, sugary icing is sandwiched between two chewy oatmeal cookies, and I just can’t get enough.
WEBSITE | 1900 S First St
Chocolate Chunk Cookie at Carpenter Hotel
I love this hotel coffee shop for a morning work session or an afternoon cappuccino, and I saw this cookie and HAD TO HAVE IT. There are massive amount of chocolate chunks in this baby, and I always appreciate it when bakers sprinkle a subtle hint of salt on top of their chocolate chip cookies. Sweet/salty girl over here.
WEBSITE | 400 Josephine St
Gluten-Free Everything Cookie at Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop
This gluten-free cookie in Austin has a little bit of everything in it: oatmeal, peanut butter, pretzels, potato chips, butterscotch chips, and m&m's. It reminds me of a cookie my mom used to make every time we went camping (she called it a monster cookie). I think that peanut butter + oatmeal is one of the greatest cookie combos.
BONUS: It’s gluten free for all of my GF friends out there! I’m not gluten free, but that doesn’t stop me from calling this one of my very favorite cookies in this entire glorious city. Also shout out to Sugar Mama's Bakeshop, an adorable Austin bakery that's been around since 2008. I SLOW CLAP. Great spot to order birthday cakes!
WEBSITE | 1905 S 1st St
Big-As-Your-Face Cookie at Pieous
Do it for the photo, right? That’s what I thought when I ordered this monster at Pieous in Dripping Springs, and then I bit into it and realized this cookie is actually fantastic! It’s chewy all the way through, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I ate the whole thing in one day. (Shh.)
WEBSITE | 166 Hargraves Dr H
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Love this list!! If you ever go to Hye Market (in Hye across from William Chris vineyards), their chocolate chip cookie is AMAZING!
I miss sugar! And cookies!
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