Sugar Momma’s Cookies

They have one type of vegan cookie and refuse to offer more options. Booo this is Asheville learn your market!

Quite possibly the best cookies you will ever eat!

I love Sugar Momma’s for a number of reasons:
1. They deliver warm, heavenly cookies in a multitude of varieties to your door (my ex-​boyfriend had delivered a box full of warm chocolate chip cookies to my work on Valentine’s Day!)
2. Cool alternative to getting someone a cake or flowers or some other lame dessert for a birthday party or what have you.
3. It’s locally-​owned by a pair of sisters who are delightful.
4. It is the ONLY place I was able to track down in Asheville to sell bubble tea, which is absolutely addicting and fabulous and amazing. They offer it in a variety of flavors (I love melon) and you can get it blended or not blended.
5. Inexpensive and fast.
Go here, so worth it. :)

I discovered this little no-​frills cookie stop on a visit to Asheville. It’s a bare-​bones place located close to downtown and offers a wide variety of fresh-​baked cookies, including chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, white chocolate chip, peanut butter chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, sugar cookies and some kind of date-​walnut cookie that is a round cookie, not a bar cookie. All the cookies are round, about 4 inches across, thick and cost about a dollar apiece. They tend towards «chewy», about halfway in the middle between soft bake and crispy. Since there is a real scarcity of «to go» food places or snack food places in this neighborhood, which seems to be populated almost exclusively with bars and sit-​down restaurants, Sugar Mommas is in a great location to serve the hungry traveler who has probably just spent an hour or more traipsing up and down the hilly streets of Asheville and needs a pick-​me-​up. I tried the oatmeal raisin, the date-​walnut and the sugar cookie and all were good, though I liked the sugar cookie the best.
So, why only three stars? Well, when I arrived at the cookie store at about 4 pm on a Saturday afternoon, it was closed. Fortunately, the guy running it opened up almost right after that. He had apparently been out of the shop «eating lunch». Lunch, at 4 pm in the afternoon? OK, maybe it was mid-​shift for him. When I and a couple other hopeful cookie-​buyers went in, there were almost no cookies in the case for sale. The guy explained that another batch was «cooling» in the back, which I guess would have required us to sit around and wait for them to cool. I would add that the cookie counter is right when you walk into this store and there’s almost no room for people to choose cookies or form a line to buy cookies so there was a bit of chaos as to who had dibs on the few measly cookies left in the case. The place was also extremely dark making it hard to tell what the cookies were in the case, and they weren’t well labeled. I was able to buy a few cookies and get out of there, while a couple other people left without buying any and three other people were arriving and being crestfallen at the lack of cookieage while I was on my way out.
Maybe I just don’t grok the ways of small businesses, but I would think there is a better way for this place to keep cookies stocked in the case and ready for prospective buyers. I would also think there should be some way for the employees on a busy Saturday shopping day to avoid having to lock up the whole store when they step out. I notice the shop also sells cookies via orders and delivery, so maybe that’s where their main business is coming from, but I just felt the whole slipshod presentation didn’t do much to showcase the excellent quality of the cookies. I also would have liked it if they had some smaller or crunchier cookie options available.