The Best Cookies in London

"Esters’ white chocolate and miso cookie helped to initiate a domino effect of bakeries adding the savoury Japanese condiment to their chocolate chip cookies, for its ability to leaven sweetness with a rich savouriness that salt alone cannot match. In that cookie, the butter is browned before creaming to emphasise the richness of the white miso, which dances happily with aromatic, malty stoneground flour; the bitter kick of ground coffee; and great chunks of almost aromatic white chocolate. However, N16 cookie connoisseurs convinced they’ve seen it all will be surprised and charmed by the newest addition to the baked goods selection: a chocolate, fir tip, and rye cookie that embodies Christmas. Esters makes a fir tip sugar that smells of Christmas trees and peppermint candy canes, by turns citrussy and resinous, making up the base of the cookies alongside two types of chocolate — Pump Street 75 percent Jamaica and Chocolat Madagascar 62 percent Madagascar — and rye flour from Hodmedods. A gloriously inventive and untraditional Christmas cookie." - Emma Louise Pudge