Valentine's Cookies at Touche Touchet

Touche Touchet cookies

"Liquor is quicker, but a cookie means nookie."

That should be Touche Touchet's pitch to sell Valentine's Day cookies.  Beautiful, delicious cookies are individually wrapped in the displays at the Columbia bakery.

You'll pay $4 a cookie.  But they're worth it.  Hand-decorated with delicate script and a mix of slogans that run from the traditional ("I Love You") to the irreverent ("Bite Me," "Text Me") to even the anti-Valentine ("Stupid Cupid").

These are Touche Touchet's shortbread cookies with icing that is solid and lightly sweet.  It's an adult flavor and a treat that's worth the price and the special trip to Shaker Drive.  I went two years ago when the shortbread was formed into as heart-shaped lollipops.  They continue to have fun in that kitchen and let you bring the fun home.