Cookies & Conversation!

Wednesday, we went to Cookies & Conversation with &pizza and Milk Bar at &pizza in Chinatown. We snapped Downtown Diego’s Diego Gonzalez with DC Food Porn’s Justin Schuble.

The party marked the launch of the Cereal Milk Cream Soda Cookie and Cereal Milk Cream Soda – a collaboration between &pizza, the critically acclaimed DC pizza chain, and Milk Bar, the award-winning bakery. Guests enjoyed the products from the Cereal Milk Cream Soda Collection at the event, which is available only at &pizza shops beginning next week. Here, &pizza’s Sam Blum and Lauren Freundlich.

&pizza has developed a following for its creative pies and for its craft sodas made from cane sugar that feature unique flavor combinations like Ginger Berry Lemonade and Pear + Fig Elixir. Milk Bar is known for its signature, highly addictive Cereal Milk, Crack Pie, Compost Cookie and Birthday Layer Cake desserts. Together, they have created two new ways to enjoy sweetness with an edge. Here, &pizza’s Liam Patrick and Full Stop Wellness Eugenia Naletova.

&pizza co-founder and CEO Michael Lastoria and founder and CEO of Milk Bar Christina Tosi discussed their brands and why they felt that they would make for a delicious collaboration.

Cereal Milk Cream Soda Cookie is a bite-sized vanilla cookie baked with white chocolate chips and mixed with milk, cornflakes, brown sugar and a pinch of salt to make the cookie tastes just like the milk at the bottom of a bowl of cornflakes, with a signature “soda” fizz from a super-secret ingredient. Cereal Milk Cream Soda has hints of butterscotch, salted marshmallow and the taste of leftover milk at the bottom of the cereal bowl and has the rich, sweet and salty flavors of Milk Bar’s Cereal Milk. Here, Washington Life’s Catherine Trifiletti, GW Law’s Erica Spevack and DC Refined’s Laura Wainman.