Orange County Register

These are the cookies I imagine Miss Maudie in “To Kill A Mockingbird” would make. They are reminiscent of a different time, when our tastes were simpler, before anybody had the notion of chopping the very best chocolate or using dried cranberries for cookies.

What you’re getting here are cookies that tastes like butter and sugar. Almost all of them are soft. My favorite is the iced sugar cookie. It’s chewy and sweet and I can detect, in a single slow bite, the different texture of the frosting and then the cookie.

Last week, our August birthday girl received a little gift pack from Campitelli’s. I immediately reached for the sugar cookie but word was that the raisin cookie was very good. The birthday girl loved the chocolate cookie with peanut butter chips. And the sugar cookie was exactly what I expected. But that raisin cookie was startling good. Every bite was soft and yet beguiling.

Campitelli Cookies, 924 E Imperial Hwy., Brea. 714-990-2869. You get a dozen cookies for $11.75, single cookies are $1 and misfits, perfectly delicious cookies that didn’t turn out looking perfect, are 50 cents.

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