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| - When I was a kid I had grown-up (maybe even *senior*) taste in cookies: digestives and shortbread.
Yep.
I was always popular for school lunchbox swaps.
Little has changed. I'm still crazy for shortbread cookies, and Mary MacLeod's is tops. To drill that home, allow me to yell in this virtual forum: TOPS!
I love these cookies. Usually I like fancy flavours and surprise-me combinations, and subscribe to a the-bigger-the-better mentality, but here I love the mini plain shortbread best:
- the size is perfect for a nibble or three
- the texture is amazing (a mix of flours, or does dough just turn to edible magic at Mary's touch?)
and
- the flavour is buttery, complex and not too sweet
There are other flavours, however, like the signature chocolate crunch, hazelnut, dutch chocolate, and butterscotch shortbread fingers. So: brew up a massive pot of tea and get to discovering your favourite!
Why-I-want-to-adopt-Mary-as-my-grandma-point: my friend mentioned that she was taking the streetcar along Queen one rainy day, and Mary was out by the streetcar stop offering water-logged TTC passengers shortbread treats. Random acts of delicious kindness get me every time.
Yelp note: If you're not often on Queen East (the cozy, charming shop is just east of the DVP), Mary MacLeod's shortbread is also available at other locations around Toronto. I've seen them for sale at the One of A Kind Art Show and year-round at Summerhill Market.
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