2024 Update: After 10 years of beloved baking, Milk Jar closed in January.

Milk Jar Cookies is the kind of place that reminds you of your grandma’s kitchen, or what you’d imagine an All American Grandma’s kitchen would look like and smell like and taste like. Comfort comes in pastels and butter and sugar. The kinds of signs and home decor you’d find in the aisles of Home Goods, or in the part of Gen-Z Tiktok where they green screen and make fun of their mom’s kitchen. But here it works. You wouldn’t want it any other way with this bake shop specializing in cookies and selling milk by the jar.

Milk Jar is kind of the antithesis of LA stereotypes, but perhaps thats why they’ve built out a cult following. Their cookies take a classic form, thick, chewy, sweet. The flavors range from classics (chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin) to creative (banana split, mint chocolate). Perfect to be paired with ice cream, milk, coffee or tea, depending on how childish you feel. Great for gifting by the box (they’re an office hit) or as a midday pick me up if you ever find yourself stuck in Mid-Wilshire wondering why this neighborhood exists.