Shika’s
Dozens of cookies sealed in kraft and glassine, lined across a dark table in low afternoon light

New York City · Est. 2025

Shika’s

M&M Gourmet Cookies

One cookie, made once a week in small batches. Browned butter, a forty‑eight hour rest, flaky salt, and a great many M&M’s.

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We make one thing. That is the entire strategy.

The packing table at dusk, given over entirely to sealed cookies
The packing table — a Sunday in October

Provenance

It began, regrettably, as a joke.

My sister and I posted a video claiming we sold cookies. We did not sell cookies. We had never, at that point, sold a single cookie to anyone.

The orders arrived anyway — from complete strangers. So we spent that weekend browning butter past midnight, cutting parchment at the kitchen table, and sealing kraft bags by hand until our thumbs gave out. Every one went out warm.

We have been doing it that way ever since. Same two sisters, same kitchen, same single recipe — only now the scale is deliberate and the waiting list is real.

— Shika & sister, New York

The Collection

Three sizes. One cookie.

Each is hand‑finished on parchment, sealed the day it is baked, and never sold a day old. Dozens begin at $75.

I · The Single

La Petite

$8

One full‑size cookie, four and a half inches across, deliberately underbaked at the centre. Ordered by people who intend to order again.

1 cookie · sealed individually

II · The House Box

Half Dozen

$40

Six, boxed in kraft under a wax house seal. This is the one that arrives at an office and ends all conversation for a quarter of an hour.

6 cookies · boxed · $8 below singles

III · The Full Dozen

Grand Douzaine

$75

Twelve, in a single box. What a dozen is properly for — a table, a celebration, or a gift that requires no explaining.

12 cookies · boxed · $21 below singles

Private commissions

Weddings, showers, corporate gifting and favours, in any quantity above four dozen. Tell us the date and the headcount and we will return a quotation within a day. Ten days’ notice, please.

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A single cookie, crackled across the crown, studded with enamel-bright M&M's and flaked salt
The house cookie — 4½ in.

Composition

Five decisions, made properly.

Butter
Browned until it turns the colour of toffee and smells of hazelnut, then cooled completely so the dough holds its height instead of spreading thin.
The Rest
Forty-eight hours, cold. The single step nobody skips here, and the one that separates a good cookie from the cookie people text about at midnight.
M&M’s
Folded through the dough and set on the crown by hand while warm — so you get both the colour and the melted pockets beneath.
Salt
Flaked sea salt, applied in the ten seconds after the tray leaves the oven, while the surface will still take it.
Finishing
Cooled on parchment, sealed the same day, collected or delivered within twenty‑four hours. Never shipped, never stale.

Praise

Unsolicited, and verbatim.

Sent by text, the morning after. Published with permission.

“Really good — they were a hit.”

Office order · Two dozen

“Might be the best cookie I’ve eva had. Not even a cookie guy.”

First order · Half dozen

From the Kitchen

A long table given over entirely to packed orders Sealed cookies in ordered rows A batch cooling on parchment squares, still unsealed A box being made up for collection

The List

Before a batch sells out.

One note when a batch is released, first refusal on seasonal boxes, and advance notice before orders open. Twice a month at most.

We write about cookies and nothing else.

Orders & Commissions

Compose your box.

Select your sizes and send the slip across. Every order is confirmed by text within the day, and baked the morning it is collected.

La Petite
1 cookie · sealed
$8
0
Half Dozen
6 cookies · boxed
$40
1
Grand Douzaine
12 cookies · boxed
$75
0

Example details are filled in so the slip reads properly — type over them.