While the highlight of children’s parties is still largely the traditional birthday cake, there’s a new edible treat that is equally delicious for kids, but with a unique twist.
Enter the chocolate chip cookie cake from Cookie Bar, the brainchild of Ivorie Acosta. One of their bestsellers is a chocolate chip cookie the size of a regular cake, encircled by a ring of Kit Kats and with Maltesers filling up the center. Customers can have the celebrants’ name or a message using fondant letters. They can even customize the cake, using different chocolates, depending on the client’s request.
“People are really surprised with how different it is, because usually it’s a spongy chocolate cake,” says Ivorie. “The inside is a chocolate chip cookie cake. It’s not the hard kind. It’s very thick and moist in the middle.”
It was the Levain Bakery in New York City that inspired Ivorie’s baking lightbulb moment. “They had baked cookies,” she remembers. “They were really big. They were as big as my hand. And that bakery’s rated as one of the best in the world. So when I tasted those, I was thinking that I want to bring it back home. I want to make something like that.”
Ivorie then started experimenting by putting a bit of liqueur into her cookies, thus coming up with such flavors as hazelnut liqueur, rum or bourbon, hence, the name Cookie Bar. When they didn’t do so well, however, she decided to make regular cookies instead, using a different approach.
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“I came up with the cookie cups, where we bake the cookie dough in cupcake tins and put toppings,” Ivorie explains. “That’s one of the products that really clicked and everyone loved. Since then, we’ve been creating more and more toppings for our cookie cups and then the cookie cake line grew, and so on.”
“Everything just revolves around a cookie. Anything cookie-related, that’s what we make. People are asking if we make cupcakes or other kinds of cakes, no we don’t, because we really just want to focus on a regular chocolate cookie made into something different.” Prices range from P180 for the mini cookie cups, to P1700 for the cookie cakes.
Cookie Bar’s cookie shots are another product that Ivorie came up with as a tribute to the famous creator of the cronut, New York-based Dominique Ansel. These cookies are baked in the shape of shot glasses, with a chocolate-covered interior. Milk, or any beverage of choice, is then poured into the makeshift glasses for enjoyable sipping. What child would not experience comfort in sinking their teeth into chewy chocolate chip cookies, and gulping warm milk afterwards? And the joy of cookie dunking, too, might we add? For adults, they can try putting Bailey’s or Kahlua.
How does Ivorie keep coming up with different ideas for her cookie creations? She takes frequent trips abroad for what she calls “cookie research”.
While business is doing well, Ivorie is very much enjoying Cookie Bar’s order and pick-up setup, though for bulk orders, they can arrange deliveries. “We don’t see the need for a café or a dine-in area. So far, most of our products are brought to parties for sharing.”
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Cookie Bar is located at 83 Unit – 1 East Capitol Drive, Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City. For inquiries and orders, visit their Facebook page or text 0917-555-1228.
Photos by Majoy Siason
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