Glasgow has welcomed another local business with the couple behind the much-loved Chulo's brand, Rebecca Paterson and Jordan Rankin, having secured their own permanent premises in the city.
The stuffed cookie shop has just launched in the Finnieston area today (September 16) with the pair now located in the former Guitar Workshop of 936 Argyle Street.
Their mouth-watering stuffed cookies gained a loyal following having been stocked in Glasgow's Scran, and local markets as well as through postal order.
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Taking to Instagram to launch their new shop having only began making the sweet treat last year, the couple wrote: "We are so excited for you all to see it!!!! We have been pulling crazy hours to get it finished and its turned out everything we hoped for.
"Thank you so much to everyone that has helped or offered to help over the past few weeks and particular thanks to @orourkejoinery & @electric.cal.glasgow for putting it all together and making it so easy for us. And our amazing shop manager @shimmieldhelen for being the most amazing chill presence we didn’t know we needed so badly.
"AND YES we now have boxes that fit all 12 flavours. Love you all."
So with their new store opening, we thought it was only right that we tried and tested it for you. After all, someone has to do it.
There are a range of cookies to choose from so it may be best to decide what you want before you head in because they don't make it easy to pick.
They have a variety of flavour with many classics including peanut butter and jelly as well as the classic chocolate and orange combo. Their most recent flavour to have been announced however is called 'This Sh is Bananas'. Made up of banana cookie dough with milk chocolate chunks, Rolos & Caramel Digestives, the cookie is later stuffed with Chulo’s banana bread and a thick toffee sauce - what's not to love?
And when we say we were drooling whilst eating this, we're not lying.
We of course opted for this one alongside other firm favourites including Milky Trinity, Chocwork Orange, PB&J, Red Velvet Underground, White Choc and Raspberry.
One of our favourites that we tried has to be the Milky Trinity. This stuffed piece of heaven is made with Milky Way dough with chocolate chunks, Magic Stars and Milky Way biscuits. It's also stuffed even further with half a Milky Way and a whipped milk chocolate ganache.
And to finish it off, it's topped with Magic Stars.
Every other flavour we tried didn't disappoint with the PB&J as well as the White Chocolate and Raspberry, cleverly named Bohemian Raspberry, at the top of our list. Oh, and a top tip from us is to stick the cookie in the microwave for a few seconds and grab a cuppa tea (or coffee) and then grab a spoon. There's no better way to spend a Friday night if we're honest.
The cookies themselves are quite big and we have to eat one half at a time which just means more cookie for later and who can complain? You can also opt to save your cookie for another day by placing it in the freezer.
Many sweet treats, particularly stuffed cookies, can be a bit sickly sweet but Chulo's seems to have the balance just right and we're not shocked that they're as popular as they are with Scots singer Amy McDonald even being a fan.
The 12 stuffed cookies you can choose from are as follows:
This dough is made with Milk & White chocolate chunks and Kinder chocolate. Stuffed with a chunk of Kinder Bueno & Kinder spread and topped with a Happy Hippo.
Milky Way dough with milk chocolate chunks, Magic Stars & Milky Way biscuits. Stuffed with half a Milky Way & a whipped chocolate ganache. Topped with Magic Stars
Valencian orange dough with white chocolate chunks, Orange Smartes & Orange KitKat chunks. Stuffed with a Jaffa Cake & whipped white chocolate ganache. Topped with crushed Orange Aero & white chocolate Terry’s
Chocolate dough with Oreos & milk chocolate chunks marbled with vanilla dough with golden Oreos & white chocolate chunks. Stuffed with a Double Creme Oreo brownie and cookies & cream spread and topped with Dairy Milk Oreo.
Biscoff dough with white chocolate & Caramilk chunks. Stuffed with a Biscoff Sandwich Biscuit & Biscoff spread and topped with white chocolate, more Biscoff & a Gold Bar.
Shortbread dough with milk chocolate and Caramilk chunks, chunks of Twix, stuffed with Dulce de Leche and stuffed and topped with fat bits of caramel shortbread.
Chocolate dough with ruby chocolate, milk chocolate, Nutella biscuits & Krave. Stuffed with a Forrero Rocher & Nutella. Topped with ruby chocolate & Toffifee.
Peanut butter dough with chunks of milk chocolate, Picnic bars, Jammie Dodgers & Reese’s Cereal Puffs. Stuffed with half a Snickers & strawberry jam. Topped with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
Red velvet dough with milk chocolate chunks, white chocolate chunks, crushed Oreos, stuffed with cookies & cream filling and a Double Creme Oreo and topped with Hershey’s.
Banana cookie dough with milk chocolate chunks, Rolos & Caramel Digestives. Stuffed with Chulo’s banana bread and a thick toffee sauce.
Chulo’s Mint Everest brownie stuffed into chocolate dough with Aero bubbles and milk chocolate topped with crushed mint Aero.
Raspberry dough with white chocolate chunks, Jammie Dodgers & white chocolate Kit Kats. Stuffed with a swiss roll chunk & whipped white chocolate ganache. Topped with freeze dried raspberries.
Their shop will be open on Friday from 10am until 5pm and on Saturday from 10am until 4pm. You can keep up-to-date with Chulo's on Instagram here.
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