“It’s a heavy cookie and it’s incredibly buttery. “We decided that 543 calories was the magic number,” he says. Orwell polled six friends to guess the cookie’s calorie count. “This kind of information, it gives you the ability to work your diet around an indulgence.” Orwell, who recently hosted a citywide chocolate chip cookie taste test with 34 entries from professional and amateur bakers (yes, Le Gourmand’s cookie won), is longing to know the calorie count of his favourite treat. “It’s that rare cookie,” he says, “where one is enough.” And it is big enough - and tasty enough - that you don’t crave more after licking up the last crumb. It has a crispy exterior and a chewy, sugary middle. It is loaded with good-quality chocolate chips. He adores the chocolate chip cookie baked in house at Le Gourmand Café and considers it - as do many other Torontonians - the best in the city.Īccording to Orwell, a 34-year-old entrepreneur who eats at least one cookie a week, three critical things:
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