It’s the golden age of the artisan cookie. Never before have we seen such an explosion of flavours and styles, experimentation with how many different ingredients you can stuff inside the humble ball of dough. Is it too much? Absolutely not. A really great cookie one of those childhood pleasures you never really grow out of, a whack of nostalgia at first bite.
And here in Melbourne we’re spoilt for choice. There’s a cookie out there for everybody.
Chewy or crumbly? Filled with chunky chocolate and loaded with bits, or smooth and buttery? New York style or Italian? Maybe a Japanese or Swedish twist? Gluten free or vegan? You will find it, friends. It’s warm and fresh from the oven, waiting.
Come discover your perfect cookie from our roundup of Melbourne’s best cookies for 2025:
Hector’s Bakery
33 Stewart Street, Richmond
Kings of the deli sandwich have expanded their empire! This swish little spot in Richmond is churning out pastries and baked goods like plump cinnamon rolls glazed with a thick whack of frosting. The cookie is straightforward, the quintessential choc chip - just enormous, of course, because this is Hector's, with huge chocolate chunks and crunchy sea salt. A big tuck shop treat with your salad sandwich.
Raya
Shop 2/61 Little Collins Street, CBD
Raya is known for doing things differently, and here they're definitely thinking outside the cookie-box. Raymond Tan's cookies are his take on New York's famous Levain cookies. Raya's six flavours include four core cookies: double choc chip walnut, Uji matcha with velvet white chocolate, brown butter dough triple chocolate chip and Blackout with sea salt black cocoa dough and caramelised white chocolate.
“My personal favourite is the Brown Butter, and Matcha,” Tan said. “It's a classic at Raya, and the matcha cookie packs a matcha dose equal to a large cup of matcha latte.”
Then there are two seasonal cookies, things like hot cross bun cookies or trending flavours like Dubai chocolate.
Söt by Mörk
Various
There’s more to Mörk than hot chocolates. Söt is the bakery arm, specialising in treats like cakes, buns and brownies. Co-owner Josefin Zernell said they’ve delved into the cookies with the new chef.
“We work with a really great chef, he’s been completely transforming our range,” she said. “Our main cookie is a humble choc chip executed really well, with buckwheat flour and brown butter for a deep nutty flavour.”
Having that primo bean-to-bar quality Mörk chocolate takes their cookies to the next level, with Nicaraguan beans for a more complex and delicious bite. Come winter, the Mörk S’more will appear across their Melbourne stores. It’s a Scandi take on the famous treat, with a caraway seed biscuit, housemade marshmallow and smoked chocolate ganache, toasted to order.
Calēre Coffee,
Shop 1/166 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
This boutique hole-in-the-wall joint on Gertrude Street is run by Alicia Feng (her partner runs Gaea next door). The focus is brewing incredible drinks featuring unique Chinese-grown beans and teas, Ona Coffee and a rotating guest roast. When it comes to cookies, ube mochi is the star. It’s eye-catching, with that telltale ube purple and a delicate sweetness in the crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth exterior—and that mochi centre is a special textural trick the team is particularly proud of.
“It stays gooey even when it cools,” they said. “That soft, stretchy texture is part of what makes it so addictive.”
Miyama Melbourne,
Level 2/300 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne CBD
You’ve got three excellent choices here. The classic chocolate chip with gooey choc chunks and flaky sea salt. Simple. Elegant. Then, the intense triple chocolate Biscoff, extra rich and lush with crunchy Biscoff chunks inside. Last but far from least, the white chocolate matcha, particularly good here because Miyama is famous for its specialty matcha.
Their menu of Japanese drinks features every variation on that gorgeous green drink and Japanese houjicha (hot, cold, dirty, strawberry, ceremonial, the lot). They’re also known for brilliant teishoku brunch sets and interesting baked goods like garlic butter brioche, if you need something savoury after the sugar hit.
Wild Life
90 Albert Street, Brunswick East
Something special for the vegans! (And, you know, anyone else who loves cookies). Wild Life’s plant-based speciality is a walnut praline and oatmeal mix. It's the perfect contrast of bittersweet crunchy, caramelised nuts and soft, moist oatmeal. You will be shocked that something this rich is utterly butterless (but it is). For the non-vegans, a Callibout choc chip cookie with sea salt. Both available at the bakery and Superette, both perfectly paired with a Market Lane coffee.
Mr Nice Guys
151 Union Road, Ascot Vale
Proudly 100% plant based since they started in 2010, the treats at Mr Nice Guys aren't just ‘nice’, they're great - even if you're not vegan. Their crowning glory is the giant cookie—also available gluten free. These aren't the little side-piece for your latte, they're not thin and crispy, they're thick and crumbly, with an I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-butter butteriness. Their core cookies are comfortingly old school: macadamia white chocolate, choc chip walnut or granola.
My Cookie Factory
322-326 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
NYC style, that means big, fudgy and layered. These jumbo creations feature ‘mixed in’ flavours, like birthday cake with white choc, salted caramel with nutty pistachio, choc peanut butter and biscoff with crunchy biscuit pieces and Belgian white and dark choc. Vegans, rejoice, you are not forgotten! They have special artisan choc chip cookies for you too. Baked onsite every day, these are the perfect pit stop for your market shop.
The Confectionist
CBD and Chadstone
If you’re hitting up The Confectionist at their Degraves Street or Chadstone outlets, you’re probably here for the viral soft serve cookie. The allure is obvious. Take one of their signature thick, filled cookies, add a luscious swirl of cool, creamy soft serve, and you’ve got a winning combo. The loaded cookie crunch, the melty ice cream, it’s a dessert-lover’s dream. But which cookie will you pick? It’s an ever-changing lineup, with past specials like the luxurious tiramisu, zingy lemon poppyseed, a unique chai spice with white choc and sugar glaze, the ostentatious nutella s’mores with melty gooey centres and tiny teddies and an irresistible red velvet with white chocolate.
Dana Patisserie
Balaclava and Bentleigh
Find these small batch cult faves in Dana's OG Balaclava bakery and their second spot in Bentleigh. They have a perfectionist ethos, always refining and innovating. That’s probably why their cookies are practically perfect. Their signature ‘giant cookie’ is a thick and crumbly choc chip affair (basically a meal in itself). If enormous biccies aren’t your thing, treat yourself to a more genteel hazelnut and cherry or a lemon butter cookie (exquisite balance of sweet-salty-zesty notes), or just a good old fashioned peanut butter.
Q Le Baker,
163 Commercial Rd, South Yarra
Cookies by a Vue de Monde alum? Very swish. Quentin Berthonneau brings French and fine-dining skill to the humble excellence of this bakery on the plaza of Prahran Market. Within the cabinet with its neat crows of croissants, loaded danishes and buns you’ll spy their freshly baked cookies. But you may not see the same one twice. Q Le Baker switches up their cookies regularly. You might get a NYC style Callebaut white choc and freeze-dried raspberry affair, or a nutty miso and tahini, a fudgy double choc chip dream or even a gluten-free buckwheat choc.
Beit Siti, Coburg
150 Bell St, Coburg
A Palestinian cafe and cultural centre where you’ll find Palestinian breakfast and lunch dishes, wraps and salads, baked goods, house-made preserves and fragrant cardamom coffee. When it comes to cookies, owner Rahaf Al Khatib bakes two of her favourites. Ka’ak asawer is a crunchy ring-shaped biscuit with aniseed, nigella seed and mehlepi from ground cherry kernels (think, buttery almond and cherry vibes). The pistachio and date maamoul is her personal creation.
“It was a little experiment at the end of making different mamoul,” she said. “Traditionally you make them with date or walnut or pistachio. I had a bit of both date and pistachio left over so I combined them. Mixing the date in with pistachio makes it softer and sweeter.”
Baguette Studios
15-27 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne
Best known for their French-Korean fusion, like beef bulgogi-style cheesesteaks, and the viral Monte Christo sandwich, but you cannot overlook the cookie here. You’ll dream about it for weeks afterwards. Huge, thick, soft and rich. Hefty chocolate chunks and a deep caramelly flavour are balanced with a smattering of salt. So intense you’ll want to share, but so good you definitely won’t.
Falco,
288 Smith Street, Collingwood
Falco's signature and all-time bestseller, peanut butter miso, is a surprisingly complex symphony of texture and taste: sugar-crystal crunch, chewy middle, an infusion of rich peanut butter and miso umami for the kind of salty sweet combo that will hook you for life. If you're more team chunky rather than smooth, go the choc chip walnut instead, or a wholesome-feeling pecan and oat with sweet tartness of cranberries (fruit! It's practically a health food).
Cobb Lane Bakery
Yarraville, Richmond & South Melbourne
Cobb Lane can do it all. Breads, pastries, cakes, tarts - and cookies. The three OG are peanut butter and chocolate (god-tier flavour combo), chocolate and sea salt and hazelnut double chocolate, as well as specials like banoffee and pistachio and caramel with pistachio praline and cuvee blanc de caramel chocolate (although rumour is this one has gone down so well it just might stick around…) so it's worth keeping an eye on socials for monthly specials. Hunt down the sugar hit at their Yarraville bakery, Richmond Traders and South Melbourne Market.
Tivoli Road
3 Tivoli Rd, South Yarra
It would be a crime to overlook Tivoli Road, absolute icons of the Melbourne baking world for over a decade. They’ve had years to hone their cookie craft, and you can taste it in the simplicity of their execution. These are cookies on the thinner side, with a chewy, buttery texture. Straightforward, and reliably delicious, with a chocolate chip and nut cookie sprinkled with sea salt. Only the nut changes: sometimes walnut, sometimes pecan. But always and forever one of the greats.
Butterbing
Various
No gluten? No problemo! Butterbing cookies are 100% gluten free and you’ll find them in cafes and shops across Melbourne, including Little Tienda in Thornbury and Top Notch Coffee in Moonee Ponds. The cookies are light and ‘brownie style’ with a rich layer of flavoured buttercream, jams or ganache smooshed between. They claim to have made over 70 variations, releasing them by the handful for hungry cookie-lovers. As well as choc orange, salted caramel and cookies and cream, other releases have included apple pie, earl gray tea, grape soda, birthday cake, snickers, iced coffee, jam donut and mint choc ripple.
Brunetti
Various
It wouldn't be a Melbourne list without Brunetti. Their pasticceria has been satisfying Melbourne's sweet tooth with traditional Italian specialties since 1985 in their bakery and Carlton cafe. Their cabinets are abundant with crisp Florentines, jam-filled papion, amaretti, nutty cantucci, biscotti al pistacchio, occhio nero with nutella and little biscotti Napolitani, shortbread filled with chocolate, nuts and crushed biscuits, with icing and blackcurrant jam. It's too hard to choose. Just grab a mixed box and think about it later.
Miss Trixie Drinks Tea
239 Swan Street, Richmond
Pow! Now that cookie’s a feast for the eyes! Miss Trixie uses a base biscuit of sophisticated dark choc and Maldon sea salt plays host to an array of wild toppings. These are your celebration cookies, your showstopping party favours, decorated with a medley of candies, sprinkles, pretzels and other delights. Somewhere Over The Rainbow is a kaleidoscope of colourful sweets, while the Bridal Biccies are a demure white and gold for the elegance of your big day, and On Wednesdays We Wear Pink is… well, you can probably guess.
Dua
Collingwood Yards, Shop 1/35 Johnston Street, Collingwood
The trendy ‘Scandinasian’ cafe from Raya’s Raymond Tan, with a simple mid-century design that makes the eye-catching baked goods pop. At Dua's, it’s impossible not to be enticed by fusion twists like a vibrant pandan version of the Swedish princess cake and savoury pork and prawn siu mai sausage rolls. Their staple cookies are a brown butter triple choc chip and vibrant matcha white chocolate - perfect for doubling up on the green stuff with your Dua strawberry matcha.