Applebaum Bakery

Why do I love this place? Because the guy that sold me the peanut butter bar was so nice! Best customer service in the whole market. Also, the peanut butter mud bar is made with homemade peanut butter and it is literally to DIE for! Next time I go there, I’m buying 3 of them can’t wait till next Sunday!

Why am I giving Joe 5 stars, when now I can’t live without his baked goods! First I couldn’t go a week without the mud bars, then not without the blondies as well, now add to that the coffee cake… not to mention the snickerdoodles and chocolate carmel bars and apple bars I had to have before that. But best of all is his red chef’s hat. :-)

Appenbaum Bakery just offered cookies and «bars»
locale: clement farmers market (¹²⁄₂₁)
eats:
–peanut butter mud bar (2.75)
lots of flavor, intense chocolate and peanut butter tasted.
–white chocolate butterscotch cookie (1.5)
sweet intense flavors of chocolate, butterscotch tasted
yummy 4 stars
*cookies large size, not small.
crumbs:
–cheaper if u buy more, i. e 4 cookies./$ 5.
–lemon bar and ginger cookie sold out.

These cookies have turned my family and friends into thieves.
I ordered Applebaum’s ginger cookies as party favors for my daughter’s red egg and ginger party. After a 12 course meal and dessert, we passed out the cookies for people to take home. Within moments, our guests were already eating the cookies and stealing the cookies off of each other’s place settings and literally out of the box in my hand.
These people were stuffed, and STILL fought over the cookies because they are just that good. My husband and I didn’t even get one!
If you see Applebaum Bakery products or their stand at a farmers market, make sure you treat yourself to their baked goodies. Very affordable and insanely tasty!

I found Applebaum Bakery via Fog Baby Café. Everything looked so good in case. I bought a ginormous chocolate chip cookie and it was gooood! It does not taste like cardboard (like Starbucks!). Definitely, try their stuff. It is that good.

Delicious!!! My husband and I love the Caramel Chews so much, we served them at out wedding. Thanks Joe!

first time to try their raspberry chocolate brownie, raspberry fruit bar, and apple crumb bar… loved each and every bite!!! I was tempted then to get all flavors, but wasn’t sure how each would taste. so, after a successful tasting of the first three bars I bought, I will for sure be back to try the rest. and the owner, he’s super sweet and gave the kiddies free sugar Halloween cookies =)

The ginger chews here are amazing! The other cookies are also well worth the money too. Applebaum Bakery has a great way of making chocolate chip cookies which are crunchy and chewy which makes them very tasty. The baker is very friendly at the Stonestown Farmers Market, and it’s a good deal if you buy lots as well.

First time visit to bakery at SF farmers market. Products are amazing! Staff very friendly and accommodating… I bought 3 bars and 4 cookies. I will be back for more!

I had one of his White Chocolate Chip cookies once and I have probably tried everything Applebaum Bakery has to offer since. I could not figure out why Applebaum products tasted so much better than anything that I had ever had before. It’s because everything, EVERYTHING is from scratch. Apparently, there is butterscotch that goes into his White Chocolate Chip cookies that his team of bakers slave over a stove to make by hand. Impressive.
Well worth the buck-​fifty and he is cute in his bakers hat to boot.

Great cookies– chewy, cakey. Home of what I consider the best sugar cookie in the city!

Very ho-​hum. Cookie that crumble, little cake things which can be too dry, flavor that does not go powie zowie in my mouth — hardly calorie worth. Disappointingly non organic ingredients. I expect that the fillings be house make but aren’t.

Came across this bakery at the farmer’s market. Wished I had discovered it sooner. Tried some of the bars including lemon, raspberry, and caramel chocolate chew bar. All were excellent. Buy 3 bars for $ 6.00 or one for $ 2.50.
Plan to go next week and try some of their other baked goodies like the cookies.

Sold at the Sunday morning Stonestown Farmers Market in San Francisco Applebaum had a wide array of regular cookies and bar shaped cookies when I stopped at their stall recently. The cookies were $ 1.50 each or four for $ 5 so I walked away with four different varieties. I’m not a big fan of soft cookies, and had I known Applebaum’s cookies are extremely soft I might not have bought any. Three of the four cookies disintegrated soon after I picked them up and all three of those were extremely crumbly and messy to eat.
I often like to dunk my cookies in milk, but I didn’t even attempt that with these cookies because I knew they wouldn’t survive in liquid. Here’s what I had:
Chocolate Chip (
) — This was the one exception. I actually liked this one quite a bit. The chocolate chunks inside were big and the semi-​soft cookie stayed intact. The cookie had a nice chewiness to it too. I just wished the other three were just as good.
Double Chocolate (
) — It’s a chocolate cookie with white chocolate chips. The chips were hard as rock and the cookie crumbled into several pieces as soon as I bit into it. Not much going on flavor-​wise either as the chocolate didn’t have any distinct flavor while just being plain sweet.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip (
) — Half of the cookie fell apart and dropped to the floor when I took a bite. My friend’s golden retriever didn’t complain though. She gobbled it up crumbs and all. The cookie had very good peanut butter flavor, but the chocolate chips were small and there really wasn’t very many of them. I’ve had much better peanut butter chocolate chip cookies than these.
Snickerdoodle (
) — As many of you already know Snickerdoodles are quite similar to sugar cookies except cinnamon sugar is used instead of plain sugar. The cinnamon flavoring is very subtle on Applebaum’s version. In fact it was barely noticeable. It made me curious on how it would compare to their regular sugar cookie which was available, but I didn’t buy. I guess I just won’t know because I have no plan to buy this cookie again in the future.
All of the cookies tasted okay, but it’s super soft style just wasn’t very appealing to me. I very rarely give cookies and baked goods a bad rating but three of these were definitely not something I would buy again in the future. The two gentlemen at the stall were very friendly. If you are a fan of soft, crumbly cookies definitely give Applebaum’s a try.

Honey Almond brittle, Pistachio brittle, and Honey Macadamia brittle… Hold me… And they have their awesome peanut butter cookies again as well as a really GOOD ginger cooker! That’s right! GINGER COOKIE! Not a ginger snap! And their newest bar, something something apple… Sorry for not remembering the name but it’s freaking good. Hell, everything they have here needs no name, just a whiff. Point at what you want and how many you want and that’s it. Kinda funny, the dude with the chef’s hat said they got bigger boxes because of how much I would buy each time… Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

First, the cookies: I got a peanut butter, and snickerdoodle, and a lemon poppyseed. All the the cookies had a wonderful texture — just the right blend of cakey and crispy (not too much of either, resulting in a lovely, just-​soft in between), and also both a little crumbly and a tiny bit chewy — just great. I’m impressed — I think they have the butter balance just right. The peanut butter and snickerdoodle were both great examples of their flavors, but the lemon poppyseed was outstanding. This is normally not my favorite flavor, but this cookie really encapsulated everything about the flavor (perfect amounts of lemon and poppyseed), and paired with the stellar texture, makes for a great cookie.
There were also a variety of bar cookies and brownies available. There was a sign for different types of nut brittle, but they were out by the time I got there.* Prices were all right — cookies were $ 1 each or 6 for $ 5.
* The proprietor here also was the greatest guy and made my day. I showed up with only $ 20 bills and, to my credit (all the rest after this is his), I asked if this was ok when I first showed up at the stand. He said it’d be fine. I picked out two cookies ($ 2) after checking everything out, then went to pay (with a twenty). He was looking for 3 singles but could only fine 2, so I said I’d take another cookie (normally it bothers me when people do this ’cause I worry I’m getting forced to buy additional products and therefore ripped off, but the cookies looked good and I always like to help a bakery out). Another cookie was put in my bag, but after a minute the guy said he couldn’t make change so the cookies were on him! I thought I’d come back to pay once I bought something else in the farmer’s market, but then I realized everyone was closing (and I had been that jerky customer showing up just before everything closed! But I didn’t know it!). So, I’d just like to use this review to 1) remind myself to go back, buy three more cookies, and give them five bucks and 2) let everyone know how nice this guy is!