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Bakery · Chain

Great American Cookies

Google: 4.7★ (81)$
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Going by the reviews · 4.7★
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Mall-based chain selling cookies & brownies offering some specialty flavors, plus cookie cakes.

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The word on Great American Cookies

Here's the word going around

I haven't ordered a cookie cake here yet, so this is the diners' read, not mine.

Anthony, The Leander Local · Last checked August 2026

By most accounts this is a mall-based chain slinging cookies, brownies, and cookie cakes, and reviewers don't romanticize chains. But the cookie cakes do the job: one grabbed for a graduation got eaten happily, with an online order ready early and no drama, which counts on a busy day. What lifts it is the people. Reviewers credit a Brandi who went out of her way for a painfully last-minute order, and a Joanna who took a nine-year-old's hand-drawn cake design seriously and actually listened. For a mall counter, people say, that kind of warmth is more than they expected.

A mall counter where the staff treat a kid's crayon design like a commission? That earns a visit.

The Order

Reviewers point to a cookie cake for a birthday or graduation, ordered online and ready ahead.

⚠ Gotcha

It lives in the mall, by several accounts, so plan for mall parking and hours.

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