Robins Bakery & Provisions

The Best Cookies in London

"Robin’s Bakery and Provisions is a Putney micro-bakery, where a changing cast of old-school bakes like Bramley apple turnovers, Eccles cakes, and Dundee fruit cake runs alongside weekly staples that include a chocolate, peanut, and clotted cream fudge cookie. It gives an American-style cookie a British accent, with an ingredient list that includes Carnation condensed milk, Shipton Mill organic pastry flour, Cacklebean eggs, and Estate Dairy cultured butter and reads like a tribute to British food producers old and new. Topping these cookies with roasted peanuts and cubes of clotted cream fudge — the former a staple of British pubs and the latter of British sweet shops — rather than using sweet peanut butter, a staple of US households, feels like a matter of identity, not purely texture. And at just £2 for a hefty 100g cookie in a city where as much as £4 is increasingly the norm, Robin’s Bakery evokes nostalgia for a bygone era of local bakeries serving hearty homemade treats at pocket money prices." - Emma Louise Pudge