Brown Butter Cookie Company — Restaurant in Cayucos

This local cookie company starting with this location and now has at least 3 Central Coast locations so far. One in SLO & one is Paso. As far as cookies go, they are tasty. They do have all sorts of options as per their website...and of course they appear to use browned butter as an ingredient. Here is repost on about them from their website: "...

OUR STORY Traci and Christa Hozie were stunned when a small cookie began to dominate their deli business. Amongst a menu of paninis and salads, their “shortbread” cookie, which was offered as a sample to customers, continued to be bought out on a daily basis. With the help of family and friends, the sisters could hardly keep up as the cookies flew off the shelves. After many late nights preparing cookies for the next day, they decided to “listen to the cookie” and founded the Brown Butter Cookie Company in December 2008. What began as an inconspicuous sampler cookie would soon become a Central Coast staple requiring the launch of an online shop to sell the sensationally sweet and salty Original Brown Butter Sea Salt cookie nationwide. Since then, the Cookie Company has been featured in the New York Times, Sunset Magazine, The Today Show, Westways, and more! The passion for these cookies has only continued to grow. In the fall of 2013, the sisters opened their second boutique retail shop on the park in the iconic Acron building, downtown Paso Robles, California. Six years later, in the fall of 2019, they celebrated their 10th year in business with the opening of their third retail location. You’ll find the newest shop in charming San Luis Obispo, California, right in the heart of downtown. The Cookie Company continues to make all cookies here on the Central Coast in their new production facility in Atascadero, and in their flagship Cayucos shop."....

For a special snack for kids on a trip, or as a gift for those who cannot make it to the Central Coast, these cookies should be welcome. You will also be supporting a local business and quite a few local workers [well over two dozen], whom they list on their webpage, along with their favorite cookie. Since at least half seem to be of typical College age, it would be nice to also know their career or hobby interests as well.

As with many popular eats on the coast, these are a indulgence, as with local Clam Chowder, Cinnamon Buns, Taffy, Ice cream, and in this case cookies. The nutritional information for the "original cookie" shows sat. fat [ 23% DV], sugar [17%] for 1 oz. of cookie. There are traces of Vit. D, iron, Calcium, and Potassium, which come from the 6+ ingredients which are very basic [the top 3 are flour, butter, sugar], and do not include many unwanted chemicals nor preservatives.

These are definitely superior to what one finds in supermarkets and rival those of some of the best local bakeries, which are fantastic as well.

Of course, it would be best to serve kids, and some adults, a few of these with a tall glass of nutritious milk [with or without Lactase as needed...and lower fat as well...the supermarkets that do carry real milk, from local Happy CA cows, are just off the highway in Morro Bay or Cambria]. Many milk substitutes have poor nutrition, lack protein/calcium, and are...

I didn't have a favorite cookie before visiting Brown Butter- I just liked cookies and didn't want to complicate the matter. This feels silly to say in retrospect, but the chocolate cookie is just that good. And this place is worth 5+ stars.

The cookie itself is deceptive: it appears as a round, puck sized biscuit that looks like many other dry and either crunchy or hard to break bricks of baking, which would be more useful to have on hand to defend yourself during a break in sort of cookie. But this is not that sort of cookie. It really isn't any sort of cookie and also is every sort of cookie as it exists in the realm of forms, and somehow, we're lucky enough to experience that ideal conjured into the physical realm, albeit only temporarily.

The pecan and original and espresso are also great (they also have traditional chocolate chip, snicker doodle, lemon, and oatmeal raisin cookies) and texturally the same, but the chocolate stands just a bit further apart. Even the smell wafts down from the ether of eternity, as its everything good about opening a pack of chocolate cupcakes (you know the ones, cream filled) but without the essence of artificiality.

As the cookie simply dissolves into a wave of flavor upon taking a bite, one is left to wonder briefly about how such a transfiguration is possible. You see the cookie, you feel the cookie, and in your mind you know there is a tangible cookie, and yet they seem to disappear endlessly no matter how many you buy. I would never describe a cookie as 'smooth', but that is what these are.

In any case, you really just have to try these cookies to understand. These aren't chewy or crunchy like many other decent, but ultimately ungratifying, cookies you can get at the store; they're something different. Overall the essence of flavor is much higher and more intense and longer lasting than other cookies. I had originally thought I'd love the espresso, but they actually could've used a heavier punch of coffee and bitterness. They're still great, though. I mean, I ate all of them, and thus have no pictures to add with my review.

I could go on and on, but the cookies will speak for themselves when you try them (or buy them online and have them shipped to your doorstep). So you should go do that. Just go, you won't be...

Soooooo. I decided to go and read all the one and two star reviews out of curiosity.

First, I too was a baker. Second, I too am a connoisseur of butter cookies. And so is my lovely lady.

That being said, these cookies are in essence great butter shortbread cookies. These aren't Costo Danish butter shortbread cookies. They are not dryer then any other. Butter sb cookies are meant to be eaten with a nice paired beverage. That way your mouth doesn't turn out like one comment, "a mummy from the mouth outward". Milk, coffee, tea, brandy etc will all suffice.

And yes, you may not like every flavor. That's the awesomeness of food exploration. We ended up getting a pack of everything. My lady took one nibble of lemon and handed it to me. But I had to fight to get even a nibble of the original salt flavor. Everyone is different so don't knock it if you don't like one or two flavors.

Lastly as we were about to go, a lady walked out from the back and I instantly knew she was the owner. We stuck up a conversation and talked about types of butters and flour and processes to quality control and consistency. She then offered our young fellow some of the custard ice cream and after tasting it, I can see exactly why you would want this with one of the cookies.

With all that said this isn't the type of cookie that you sit and eat the whole $15 pack. You eat one and savor the flavor and development of the notes. From salty, to sweet to nutty as it passes over the palette.

FYI. I have to stop my lady from eating all the cookies in the 4 hour drive to LA.

Best wishes.

They are made with brown butter and will therefore be a little saltier and nutty in flavor. Hence the part of the store name...