When Colleen Thompson realized that the grand opening of her new Colleen’s Cookies retail shop would fall on Friday the 13th, she improvised. The decorated-shortbread-cookie maven has prepared special cookies for the Aug. 13 gala that feature broken mirrors, ladders and black cats.
Visitors to the new sweet shop, on the border of Clayton and University City at 7337 Forsyth Blvd., will experience the sugary, pshaw-to-superstition fun and have a chance to try Colleen’s other cookies, in such flavors as peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip, Death by Chocolate, Scottish shortbread and fruit-pie. She also carries the sinful whoopie pie cookie sandwiches in such flavors as the Elvis, a peanut butter cookie with banana cream; and the Gingerbread Man, a gingerbread cookie with lemon cream.
Colleen’s Cookies will open bright and early at 7 a.m., Monday through Saturday, and serve scones, muffins and coffee for breakfast (although cookies for breakfast sounds perfectly acceptable, too). Thompson plans to eventually expand the menu to include other goodies including tarts, quick breads and caramel buns.
This article appears in Jul 1-31, 2010.