OG Chocolate Chip
A rich bakery-style chocolate chip cookie with golden edges, soft centers, chocolate chips, and a sprinkle of sea salt.
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home kitchen cookie magic
Welcome to The Not So Perfect Cookie!
We make rich cookies, cheerful cutouts, DIY kits, and special sweets with personality. The treats are polished enough to gift and handmade enough to keep their charm. That makes our cookies not so perfect and predictable by the standards of machines and supermarkets - and we think that will make you love them more! We serve only the south of Rochester, NY and surrounding areas.
- Order-ahead cookies, treat boxes, and special-occasion drops.
- Custom holiday styling when the calendar calls for it.
- Made in a home kitchen by Mary and Julia.
Made in a home kitchen
cookie lineup
Everyday Cookies with a Special Touch
Core flavors and formats show up throughout the year, sometimes dressed for a holiday and sometimes left gloriously classic.
Hot Mess Express
Our loaded cookie for people who believe restraint is a rumor. Chocolate chips, crunchy candy, and zero boring bites.
Golden Walnut
Our Traditional chocolate chip cookie, loaded with rich semi-sweet chocolate chips and crunchy walnuts. A cozy, generous bite with just the right bit of nutty crunch.
Classic Cutout - Frosted
Smooth royal icing, cheerful colors, and hand-done charm for birthdays, bouquets, boxes, and holiday sets.
standard price list
Core cookies, bites, kits, and trays
Our current standard menu is shown below. Monthly specials, custom styling, and limited holiday drops may vary by design and availability.
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Our Regularly Featured Items
Cookies are approximately 3.5 to 4 inches unless noted.
Cookies
1/2 dozen for $15 or 1 dozen for $25.
Golden Walnut
Our traditional chocolate chip cookie loaded with rich semi-sweet chocolate chips and crunchy toasted walnuts. Can be made without walnuts, if needed.
Sugar Sprinkle
Classic sugar cookie, soft, buttery, and loaded with colorful sprinkles.
OG Chocolate Chip
A rich bakery-style chocolate chip cookie made with a sprinkle of espresso and a mix of chocolate chips.
The Traditional
Buttery dough, classic chocolate chips, and that familiar homemade flavor that never needs dressing up.
No Wheat, All Treat
All the familiar homemade chocolate chip goodness of The Traditional, made with gluten-free flour. Our only gluten-free offering.
Hot Mess Express
A fun, loaded chocolate chip cookie packed with mini M&Ms and extra chocolate in each bite. Perfect for those who love sweets.
The Signature
Not your perfect cookie. Made with buttery dough, rich chocolate, graham cracker pieces, and sweet marshmallows. Just dreamy.
Peanut Butter
Golden, soft, and full of nostalgic flavor, these old-fashioned peanut butter cookies are simple, rich, and deeply satisfying.
Rice Krispies Treats
Plain or Fruity Pebbles. 6 for $5.
DIY Birthday Kits
24 for $20 or 36 for $30.
Our DIY kit includes sugar cutout cookies ready to decorate with 4 royal icing colors and sprinkles. Great for kids' birthday parties. Kits include treat bags so cookies can travel home as favors.
Party Trays
Any of our cookies are available for trays; monthly specials excluded.
60 large 4" cookies$110
60 small 2" cookies$70
Regularly featured items include Golden Walnut, Sugar Sprinkle, OG Chocolate Chip, The Traditional, No Wheat All Treat, Hot Mess Express, The Signature, Peanut Butter, Rice Krispies Treats, DIY birthday kits, and party trays.
how ordering works
Simple on purpose.
- Review the price list, special-occasion examples, and current availability.
- When ordering reopens, use the Google Form to tell us what you want.
- We confirm details, pickup timing, and payment.
bakery humor policy
Perfectly uniform? Couldn’t be us.
We believe cookies should look handmade because they are handmade. If one swirl leans left or one sprinkle party gets a little too enthusiastic, that is not a flaw. That is evidence of fun.
Translation: they may not all match like a choir, but they sure know how to sing.
meet the bakers
Mary and Julia
"We joke that our cookies are not trying out for synchronized swimming. We care way more about personality, flavor, and making people smile than forcing every cookie to look exactly like the one next to it. The magic is in the handmade fun."
Mary + Julia, mother and daughter bakers
The Not So Perfect Cookie is a home-based baking and decorating team built around warmth, humor, and treats that feel personal. We bake to order, especially around holidays, birthdays, and "I just need a cookie immediately" moments.
questions
Send a note to the bakery
For custom requests, allergy questions, pickup timing, or order details that need a little more back-and-forth.
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Fresh drops, kitchen peeks, and order reminders.