

Meantime, she advises people who are looking for a reasonably sized dessert to split it in two and share it with a friend. “I would love to see the café offer a smaller size cookie,” she says. So, explains Crocker, eating the whole cookie means there is little room in your daily diet for any other meal, snack or drink that may contain added sugars. I won’t be surprised - at all - if it is more than that number.”Ĭarbohydrates: 74 grams (including 46 grams sugars)Īnd while a cookie is meant to be deliciously sweet, Crocker is concerned about its 11.5 teaspoons of added sugars - just shy of the World Health Organization’s daily recommendation. I’ll be shocked if it comes in under that number. “It’s a heavy cookie and it’s incredibly buttery. “We decided that 543 calories was the magic number,” he says. Orwell polled six friends to guess the cookie’s calorie count. “This kind of information, it gives you the ability to work your diet around an indulgence.” Orwell, who recently hosted a citywide chocolate chip cookie taste test with 34 entries from professional and amateur bakers (yes, Le Gourmand’s cookie won), is longing to know the calorie count of his favourite treat. “It’s that rare cookie,” he says, “where one is enough.”

And it is big enough - and tasty enough - that you don’t crave more after licking up the last crumb. It has a crispy exterior and a chewy, sugary middle. It is loaded with good-quality chocolate chips. D (0% DV), Calcium (0% DV), Iron (8% DV), Potas. (0% DV).He adores the chocolate chip cookie baked in house at Le Gourmand Café and considers it - as do many other Torontonians - the best in the city.Īccording to Orwell, a 34-year-old entrepreneur who eats at least one cookie a week, three critical things: They’re shipped the same day they’re baked so they arrive perfectly fresh. Sweet Perfection with a Satisfying Crunch. Just imagine… a big, chewy cookie bursting with rich chocolate chips plus an incredible crunch of real California walnuts for an irresistible result.
