Sweetgreen’s First-Ever Cookie Is A Sourdough Chocolate Chip, Baked Fresh Daily, From November 10
Sweetgreen added the Sweetgreen Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookie to its menu on November 10, the first cookie the salad chain has ever sold. It’s available at most of its more than 285 locations, in-store, in the Sweetgreen app and online at sweetgreen.com.
What’s in it
The cookie is baked fresh every day with sourdough starter, unbleached wheat flour, dark chocolate chips, butter and egg yolks. It’s sweetened with organic agave syrup and coconut sugar, and Sweetgreen says it’s made without artificial flavors, colors or dyes.
At Sweetgreen’s Union Square restaurant in New York, it’s $2.95 and 240 calories.
Co-founder Nic Jammet called the cookie “a big moment for us,” and said the company wanted to bring the same care it gives its main dishes “to something as familiar and comforting as a chocolate chip cookie.”
The cookie arrived alongside new rotisserie-seasoned chicken plates and a wrap, Sweetgreen’s push toward heartier dinner food.
Sweetgreen isn’t the only big name baking with sourdough this fall. In October, Pepperidge Farm’s sourdough cookies went on sale at Walmart, among them a Dark Chocolate Sourdough with Brown Butter.
Free samples in New York on November 20
Sweetgreen is marking the launch with a “Watch Us Cook” event in front of its Union Square restaurant, at 870 Broadway in New York, on Friday, November 20, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Two chefs will cook in a glass-enclosed kitchen for 11 hours, and visitors can sample select plates and the new cookie. Sweetgreen says it will share more details on its @sweetgreen social accounts.
A chocolate chip cookie from your own oven
Our Chocolate Chip Cookies (My Favorite!) cream butter with brown sugar and fold in semi-sweet chips for a dozen cookies with crisp edges and a chewy middle. For a deeper, nuttier cookie, Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies brown the butter first for an almost caramel-like taste, then mix in chocolate chips and chopped chocolate.