Made by a Blonde cookies are a little more expensive, and there’s a reason for that: we don’t cut corners.

We started with a simple goal, to make the best brown butter chocolate chip cookie we possibly could. Not the cheapest. Not the easiest to mass produce. Just the one we’d be really excited to eat.

So we brown our butter by hand. We use Belgian chocolate, unbleached flour, premium butter, and Maldon sea salt. We make every batch by hand, without preservatives or cheaper substitutions.

Could we make a less expensive cookie? Of course. But we’d have to change the things that make it so good—and we’re just not interested in doing that.

There are plenty of places to get a cheap cookie. We want to be the place you go when you want a really, really excellent one.

Because when you’re treating yourself to a cookie, we think it should be worth it.