An extra-extra cookie chain from California is coming to Texas: Called the Cookie Plug, it features fresh baked cookies that are exceptionally thick, and it's opening a storefront in Dallas' Lake Highlands, at 7215 Skillman St., in the Kingsley Square shopping center at the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane.
A spokesperson says the shop will open in mid-October, although that might be a bit optimistic, given that they're still finishing up construction, but ya never know.
Cookie Plug is known for its extra-thick extra-large cookies, measuring four inches across and 1 1/2 inches high: like a combination of part cookie, part cake, part brownie.
Flavors include:
- chocolate chip
- chocolate peanut butter
- Bam Bam fruity cereal
- S'mores
- Pink Elephant strawberry cheesecake
- Slim Shady M&M chip
- Snickerdoodle
- white chocolate macadamia
- triple chocolate
- Pixie Junkie sugar cookie coated in colored sprinkles
- chocolate chip walnut
- cookies & cream
- purple velvet - like a purple version of red velvet chocolate
You can get four cookies for $15, a "half sack" with 7 cookies for $25, or a dozen cookies for $35. "Plug poppers" are miniature versions of their cookies, $10 for a dozen.
They also have a category of beverages called Purple Drank; one is lemonade, the other purple-tinted milk.
The concept was founded in 2019 by Erik Martinez, who worked in the cake supply industry and became exposed to the cookie world, a somewhat demure realm which he disrupted slightly by beefing up the size of his cookies and adding an edgy, California street-kid atmosphere.
These are some very big cookies.Cookie Plug
For example, the cookies are called "phatties," and their names incorporate cannabis-themed slang such as Pink Elephant and Purple Haze.
“When you walk into a Cookie Plug, you’ll be greeted with a colorful design, street art-themed graffiti on the walls and hip-hop music blasting,” Martinez says in a statement. “The vibe is unlike any other cookie shop in the country and we put a twist on cookies that has never been seen before: FAT, THICC, and BOMB AF.”
There are currently either 22 or 24 locations depending on who you ask; they're very poised for expansion ever since they signed on with Bomb AF Brands, a franchise development company, and are optimistically forecasting dozens of locations "coming soon" across Texas.
The Lake Highlands shop will open in suite #316, between Palm Beach Tan and M*Stella Nail Bar, two doors down from Mi Cocina and just a short walk across the parking lot from L.A. Fitness.
It comes to Dallas thanks to restaurant operators David Weaver and Blake Terry, the same team responsible for bringing another California concept called Roll-Em-Up Taquitos to town, with the first already open in Garland.
