We’re so excited to bring the Friendly Feast Chocolate Chip Cookie Championship back on Sunday, November 16th! It’s been five years since we crowned a winner for best overall and most creative chocolate chip cookie. This year’s event features fan favorites and new competitors. Boxes are sold out!
2025 Winners
Best Overall:
Brown Butter Mocha Swirl w/ Dark & White Chocolate Chunks
Daisy Garcia, Continental Catering
Most Creative:
Miso Banana Split
Tina Gamel, Seneca Trattoria
Runners-Up:
Best Overall:
Salted Chocolate & Toffee OMG Cookie
Lea Marie Dennis, Sugar Kiln
Most Creative (tie):
Milk and Dark Chocolate Chunk w/ Candied Orange
Marianne Daquino, Grossmont College
Sourdough Triple Chocolate Pistachio
Roxio Piña, Sobremesa Bread and Pastry
FEATURED CHEFS AND COOKIES
Peanut Butter Cup S’mores Chocolate Chip
Faye Rodriguez, Faye’s Desserts
This thick and chewy cookie starts with the same signature dough that clinched the “Best Overall” cookie at our 2020 event. For this year’s competition, Faye is tapping into nostalgic campfire vibes with dark chocolate chips, dark chocolate peanut butter cups, mini marshmallows, and homemade graham cracker pieces mixed in.
Salted Chocolate & Toffee OMG Cookie
Lea Marie Dennis, Sugar Kiln
Sugar Kiln’s signature cookie is all about browned butter and salted chocolate deliciousness. The soft and chewy cookie is made with semi-sweet chocolate chips, bittersweet chocolate discs, crunchy toffee, and a sprinkling of sea salt on top.
Miso Banana Split
Tina Gamel, Seneca Trattoria
This imaginative cookie by Tina Gamel is made with dark chocolate and Dulcey chocolate chunks, banana jam swirl, and crunchy sugar cone crumbles in a brown butter miso dough.
Sourdough Triple Chocolate Pistachio
Roxio Piña, Sobremesa Bread and Pastry
Two-time Friendly Feast scholarship winner Roxio Piña went all in on chocolate with her cookies, which start with a dark chocolate espresso dough and are finished with milk chocolate chunks, white chocolate chunks, and chopped pistachios.
Milk and Dark Chocolate Chunk with Candied Orange
Marianne Daquino, Grossmont College Pastry Instructor
Culinary Instructor Marianne Daquino’s cookie features two types of chocolate chunks and an elegant chocolate-dipped orange peel on top.
Brown Butter Mocha Swirl Cookie
Daisy Garcia, Continental Catering
Daisy’s rich, two-tone cookie is made with espresso chocolate dough and classic brown butter dough swirled together and mixed with dark chocolate and white chocolate chunks and a touch of flaky sea salt.