Offering soft-baked cookies in a range of gourmet, dessert-inspired flavours, this takeout spot is changing the High Park landscape. Open Thursday to Saturday, there's scant time to secure your fave, be it Birthday Cake, Cinnamon Roll or glazed Strawberry Milkshake. Do yourself a favour, and pre-order.

What started with one mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe has blossomed into a local success story, with locations in Parkdale, Leslieville, and more. Once you taste your favourite candy given a Craig-style makeover — complete with sweet and salty dough, and a proper amount of molten chocolate — you'll have no doubt as to why.

Chocolate chip cookie stans know that it's hard to top the cushiony, crisp, buttery offerings at this Richmond and Spadina cafe. Served warm, this side of underdone, they partner just enough rich dough with dark discs of chocolate to sublime effect. Are there are other varieties on the menu? Once you try the OG, you probably won't care.

Madagascar bourbon vanilla and Belgian chocolate come together in fragrant, gooey cookie euphoria at this popular St. Clair West bakery. Order the double chocolate chunk cookies with a side of flaky Nutella rugelach and leave no stone unturned.

The team at this bakery (with locations in Little Italy and the Danforth) makes an array of pillowy cookies loaded with fillings, trimmed with sugary toppings, and plumped with interesting add-ins, like ube cheesecake. Available for walk-ins, pre-order and delivery, there are plenty of ways to assure a reunion with your favourite, whether its Campfire S'mores or nostalgia-inducing Pop Tart.

In the dual business of selling cookies and raising money for charity, this Brockton Village bakery satisfies on several levels. Thanks to the team's butter-based doughs, giddy assortment of flavours, and knack for cramming cookies with a near-absurd amount of gooey, creamy, crunchy mix-ins, you'll be happy to do your bit, more often than ever. 

This quaint Little Italy cafe bakes up nostalgic treats, including delicate shortbread and tawny-hued, chocolate-flecked cookies as big as your face. If nana was a baker, these will jolt you straight back to childhood. If not? Feel like a kid again with one in each hand.

The menu at this Little Italy bakery is so butter heavy that every item is doughy and rich, flaky and light, or a glorious amalgam of both. Cookies are no exception; each classic flavour is fat and round, with a generous amount of garnishes, a judicious touch of salt, and undeniable allure. Order the Choco Chippy, and go home happy.

Anyone who's inhaled an ice cream sandwich at Bang Bang Ice Cream is already a fan of this cozy Bloordale Village bakery. Here, the same recipes are used to make oodles of buttery cookies, loaded with spices, nuts, silky chocolate morsels, candies and other temptations. Snack on them, sans frozen garnish, and appreciate every nuance.