Getting Baked in Bloomington

If you ever come to Bloomington, there is one place you must visit. It is called Baked. It is a cookie shop where you get to create your own cookie. It is a three step process. First you choose dough for your cookie: oatmeal. sugar, chocolate or peanut butter. Then you choose your fixins - you can choose anything from traditional chocolate chip to crasins. And finally you can chose an afterbake which is actually a candy bar added to the cookie after it is done baking.

The design of the place reminds me of Common Grounds in Waco. I met my friends Carl & Dominique. Dominique is a first year law school student and a recent Notre Dame graduate. She is destined for big things. We arrived at 9pm and ordered our cookies.

I went for the oatmeal white chocolate, walnuts, and crasins. It was DELICIOUS! There is something about milk and cookies that just puts me in a great mood. We end up staying at Baked until 2am. We also met Travis, one of the managers and chatted with him about the cookie shop, religion and life in Bloomington. It was nice to connect to someone that lived in the city prior to becoming a student.

As we left he loaded us up with a ton of cookies for free. Needless to say Baked is a place I will frequent for the next four years.