Finding the perfect cookie is no easy task. Will it have the right ratio of doughy inside to outside crispy outside? Is it sweet enough, but not too sweet that you can’t eat it in one sitting? If you’re in the Tinley Park area, you’re in luck. We found the best spots to satisfy a cooking craving when it strikes.
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Sugar Shack Cookie Company
- Address: 280 E. Lincoln Highway, New Lenox
Sugar Shack is known for its jumbo cookies. While you may not like to share, these cookies are too big not to! Owner Samantha Hamilton bases her rotating cookie specials on customer favorites and requests, with some seasonal influence, too. Topping those charts are salted chocolate chip, white chocolate raspberry, peanut butter chip and oatmeal raisin. Seasonal selections vary and may include pumpkin maple and coffee cake.
Fleckstein’s Bakery
Family-owned and operated for nearly 50 years, Fleckstein’s originated as a local go to for wedding cakes. Word of mouth quickly spread around Mokena and throughout the South Suburbs that they serve the best assorted butter cookies in town. Whether sprinkled, hand-dipped in chocolate or topped with fruit or jam, customers flock to Fleckstein’s for these tasty delights in quantities of up to 3 pounds!
Orland Park Bakery
- Address: 14850 S. La Grange Road, Orland Park
Serving Chicagoland for more than 40 years, Orland Park Bakery always has cases of cookies on display to purchase by the pound. Varieties include decorated sugar cookies, peanut butter and assorted butter cookies. They can take custom shaped and decorated cookie orders for any occasion. You’d be hard pressed to find a better chocolate chip cookie in town, with is an original family recipe from 1963. Stuffed to the brim with chocolate chips, they’re moist, fresh and what most customers call “to die for.”
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