ABOUT OUR
Brown Butter Sea Salt Cookies
A taste that you'll never forget, our Brown Butter Sea Salt cookies are the perfect combination of salty and sweet making for a deliciously comforting treat!
BUTTER MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER
SIGNATURE FLAVOR
We gently melt and brown the butter to bring out the quintessential flavor that makes our Brown Butter cookies unique.
SIGNATURE STYLE
After hand rolling each cookie, they are topped with a sprinkle of sea salt as they emerge from the oven.
PACKAGED WITH CARE
All our cookies are hand packaged and prepared for eating in our shops or shipped to your door.
SPECIALTY SHORTBREADS
BORN in 2024
Our new Specialty Shortbread style cookies are made with our signature brown butter, vanilla, and sea salt combination. They were created specifically for our Made with Ghirardelli program in 2024.
SUBSTANTIAL SHORTBREAD
These cookies are 1.2 ounces, square shaped, and packed full of flavor!
PACKAGED FOR YOU
All our cookies are baked and sealed after you order then carefully packaged and shipped to your door.
RECENT NEWS
Co-Founder Traci Hozie-Alderson talks to Adam Montiel about the new Made with Ghirardelli® Shortbread Cookies at the Brown Butter Cookie Company (released June 7, 2024 -- interview begins around 12 minutes).
Co-Owner and Founder, Traci Hozie-Alderson was interviewed on the podcast Consumed with Jaime Lewis (released December 4, 2023).
OUR STORY
Traci and Christa Hozie were stunned when a small cookie began to dominate their deli business. Amongst a menu of paninis and salads, their “shortbread” cookie, which was offered as a sample to customers, continued to be bought out on a daily basis.
With the help of family and friends, the sisters could hardly keep up as the cookies flew off the shelves. After many late nights preparing cookies for the next day, they decided to “listen to the cookie” and founded the Brown Butter Cookie Company in December 2008.
What began as an inconspicuous sampler cookie would soon become a Central Coast staple requiring the launch of an online shop to sell the sensationally sweet and salty Original Brown Butter Sea Salt cookie nationwide. Since then, the Cookie Company has been featured in the New York Times, Sunset Magazine, The Today Show, Westways, and more!
The passion for these cookies has only continued to grow. In the fall of 2013, the sisters opened their second boutique retail shop on the park in the iconic Acron building, downtown Paso Robles, California. Six years later, in the fall of 2019, they celebrated their 10th year in business with the opening of their third retail location. You’ll find the newest shop in charming San Luis Obispo, California, right in the heart of downtown. The Cookie Company continues to make all cookies here on the Central Coast in their new production facility in Atascadero, and in their flagship Cayucos shop.
VIEW OUR ORIGINS
New here? We're happy to have you! Watch this throwback video to see how it all started.
DON'T FORGET THE
Classic Cookies
Our Classic Cookies are crafted with care and baked fresh daily, resulting in a flavor profile that is comforting, familiar, and oh-so-satisfying. The edges of our Classic Cookies deliver a gratifying crunch that gives way to the lusciously tender center. Whether enjoyed as a snack, paired with a glass of cold milk, or shared with loved ones, our Classic Cookies are the embodiment of pure, timeless pleasure.