Nothing satisfies a mid-afternoon sugar plunge like a gooey, chewy, sugary cookie. Herewith, our picks for the city’s champion cookies.

Herbivore’s vegan cookie is loaded enough to feed a family of four—a frontrunner for gold.

Crisp-edged but soft in the center, with a superb salty-sweet contrast, Sweet Flour’s oatmeal chocolate chip grabs silver while the bronze goes to Le Gourmand’s sweet milk chocolate mega-cookie.

Special mentions go to the pistachio, chocolate chunk at the Harbord Bakery and the super soft ginger snap from Wanda’s Pie in the Sky. Soft, gooey and delicious, The Drake Café whips up some great cookies and the confections at Dark Horse are strong contenders too.

Look, it’s not the healthiest snack, but hey, that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

In your mind you spend Saturday afternoon happily baking oatmeal cookies with your kids. In your reality, you barely have time for lunch.

Sweetpea Baby Food’s new kids’ cookies are made the way you’d do them if you could: with whole grains like spelt and no dairy, eggs, or additives.

Healthful flavours like banana-pear and pumpkin spice mean there’s no guilt in doling them out by the handful. 

One for baby, three for mummy….

Sweetpea Organic Cookies ($5.99) at IGA, Planet Organic, Pusateri’s and other Canadian retailers at www.sweetpeababyfood.com