Don't show up to your job's holiday cookie exchange empty handed because you can't bake. Tucson has so many local bakeries and shops that make A+ pastries and cookies.
Or maybe you just want cookies to enjoy on your own or with your family.
Q Confections
Q Confections makes cookies with rad designs. You can get saguaro cookies, taco cookies, snow cone cookies or request a cookie. They're too cute to eat.
Jessi Taylor, baker and owner of Q Confections, wants to make the perfect cookies for you.
Place your orders here. Orders should be placed 2-3 weeks before your delivery date.
Blue Willow
Your favorite brunch spot and gift shop has a pretty great bakery. Order cookies, cakes, muffins or quiche. Pick from chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, peanut butter, and homemade oreos.
Call for (520) 327-7577 for current pricing. Most special orders require 48-hour notice.
Find more information here.
Mercado San Agustin
You have two options here: La Estrella Bakery and Aka Deli and Bakeshop.
At La Estrella, you'll find Mexican pastries like elotes, piernas and cochitos. It's impossible to leave the bakery without buying something. They're open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays. Call (520) 741-0656 if you have any questions.
Aka Deli and Bakeshop just recently opened its doors and if you haven't been yet, you need to go. It's located right by MAST at the mercado. They have sweet treats, Italian sodas, lunch stuff and the coolest tile for Instagram photos. The cookies are soft and bursting with flavor. Get some lunch or buy your holiday goodies.
Time Market
Time Market is many things and bakery is one of them. The baguettes are the kind you take to parties but this is about cookies. Yes, Time Market has cookies and they're the kind children are constantly asking for. The Time Market chocolate chip cookies are baked in house and they're by the deli.
The already-baked cookies are less than $3 each and the cookie dough is $10 per pound. Go to the market to buy one — or five.
The market is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day and they stop baking cookies at around 4 p.m.
Find more information here.
