Momofuku Milk Bar

Thank you to everyone who commented on the advent calendar post! I don't know where you all came from. I feel like maybe I should watch my mouth and what I say more. I, uh, didn't know that people actually read my blog.

I loved reading about everyone's favorite holiday treat. The comments are really, really good and detailed. Some of you have the same favorite holiday treat, but surprisingly a lot of your choices were different. It's kind of getting the wheels in my head turning.... what if we did some kind of post on here with everyone's favorite recipes? Then you could use that post as a reference if you needed a recipe for the holidays. I dunno - just a thought. We'll talk about that later at some point.

Let's get to the advent calendar winners! These three people will receive an advent calendar from Portland Truffle. Whoooo hoooo. Let's do it. Using a random number generator... Drumroll please...


Winner 1 - #17 Lorie!
Winner 2 - #94 LD!
Winner 3 - #124 Sara!

Congratulations! I'll be getting in touch with you shortly.

If you didn't win, well, I'm sorry. I wish everyone could win a calendar. But I still think YOU'RE a winner! Awwww. Now come here and give me a hug.

You can purchase an advent calendar on Portland Truffle's website right now!. The calendars are fun and delicious and I highly recommend them. Thank you, Stephanie and Portland Truffle!

Now it's time for some Friday bakery talk... my continued quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Pull up a bean bag chair, some milk and snack, and let me tell you a story.

When my mom and I were in New York City, we decided to walk from 79th street to 13th street, to Momofuku Milk Bar. I'm still confused about what a milk bar is. I guess it's a place that sells milk, ice cream and desserts. I know at this milk bar you had to stand up while eating. And nobody likes to stand... especially after walking so many blocks.


We were pretty hungry when we got there, so everything on the bakery menu looked good. I knew Momofuku was known for their compost cookies, and that's what I decided to get, though all of their desserts looked amazing.


I'm so sad I didn't get to try their famous crack pie and candy bar pie. :(


You really can't place a compost cookie into the chocolate chip category, because while they do have chocolate chips, they also have other add-ins. Like:


Butterscotch chips, oats, toffee covered pretzels, potato chips and coffee grounds.

I know all of those ingredients sound strange together, but the sweet and salty flavors work well. These were SO good. A little greasy, but that has never stopped me before.
You know this old wise saying, right? ... "It's not a good cookie if it doesn't leave grease stains on a paper napkin."


The butterscotch was the dominate flavor of the compost cookie, followed by chocolate. Then I picked up some of the coffee flavor... but it's not too much. If you didn't like coffee you'd still like it. The oat, pretzel and potato chip flavor was minimal. I would have liked more pretzels and potato chips.


Perhaps the cookies vary from day-to-day on how much of what ingredient they throw in. After all, they're compost cookies, which should mean the bakers throw in leftovers of whatever they have lying around. Anyway, these were excellent cookies, and guess what? I'm going to try cloning them in the future so you can make them yourselves at home.

Now here's the BEST part of the story. Hold on to your hats.

Okay, okay. So I'm standing there eating this cookie with my mom at the milk bar, and I was telling her about how I was going to put all these bakery tours on my blog. This girl standing across from us, eating a yummy-looking slice of cake that I almost ripped away from her hands, says,

"You look familiar. Do you have a blog? A sugar plum blog?"

And I was like, "Yes!! Yes I do!"

So we started talking and it turns out she reads my blog! I was in a bakery in the middle of New York City, far from home, and I met someone who reads my blog. That amazes me. She has even baked some of my recipes!


She was very nice to take a picture with me.

Her name is Anne, she goes to NYU, but she's from California, and she loves to bake.
She's looking for someone in their mid-twenties, tall, dark and handsome, who enjoys playing tennis and taking walks on the beach...

Haha, just kidding. I don't think she's looking for anyone, but I bet I could totally hook her up on here. Derrick? Ted? Adam? I think those are my only male readers.

Meeting Anne was one of the best parts of my trip, if not the best part of the trip. Seriously. That experience made my day. It was even better than the compost cookies.

Momofuku Milk Bar & Bakery
207 2nd Ave | corner of 13th and 2nd