Bakeries in the Denver metro area are having a moment, thanks to Coloradan’s appetites for carb-loaded comfort and a pandemic-driven rise in storefront-free operations. We nibbled our way through the Mile High City to find the tastiest goodies. Go ahead and try them all you deserve it.
One of Colfax Avenue s most distinctive buildings has a sweet new tenant. Earlier this month, Urban Cookie moved into the Savageau Building at 2260 East Colfax Avenue, where it s selling a range of cookies made by a baker with a long Denver pedigree.
Urban Cookie is the latest from Denon Moore, who founded Cake Crumbs Bakery in the 2000s before selling her business in 2017. At the time, her plan was to do something different and outside the kitchen but her heart knew baking was her destiny, Urban Cookie s website explains.
And so the little cookie cafe sprang up alongside Smith + Canon Ice Cream, making for a sugary destination at the corner of Colfax and York. Moore s creations include Urban Classics and weekly mystery batches, but even the classics go beyond standard recipes. The Amazing Peanut Butter (pictured), for example, trades in the basic pressed-fork pattern for a similar design created in peanut butter frosting, and the chocolate chip cookies get double the choco