In 2019, Anne Grossman debuted Rebel Daughter Cookies, her Norwalk-based bakeshop offering “big, gourmet” N.Y.C.-style cookies. The brand, named after the nickname Anne’s mom gave her, is known for inventive, rotating flavors—like a Queen Kong, which is a banana walnut crumb cake cookie— but Anne says customers repeatedly asked her to expand the menu. Not to new cookie flavors, though: to cakes. “For the longest time, I just wanted to specialize in cookies and make the best ones anyone has ever had," she says. "But people told me they wanted something to put a candle in, and I was looking for a creative outlet.” Cookie cakes, she reasoned, needed a glow-up (the mall variety isn’t exactly cool). “I thought: what if my challenge is to make a cookie cake that fits the personality of Rebel Daughter?”
After more than a year of experimenting, she did just that. Rebel Daughter’s new line of cookie cakes fits the irreverent heart of the brand— cakes come with cheeky phrases like “U Deserve Cake” or "Cake Cutting Practice," or you can customize your own. The cakes are their “mind-blowing” chocolate chunk with sea salt flavor, which Anne describes as “nice and crispy on the outside and chewy and slightly gooey in the middle.” Perfecting the cookie cakes has been part of a creative period for Anne: she designed a proprietary box for the cakes that will allow her to ship them nationwide, plus let customers receive cookies and a cake in the same box, and she worked with local muralist Weverson Ponte to design the new cake box packaging. (You can see his work on the Norwalk bakery storefront, as well, and don't miss the new cookie packaging by team member Kat). It’s Anne’s hope that the new cakes will be a part of not just birthdays and weddings, but all kinds of celebrations. “We really encourage you to use your imagination.”
To place an order, visit rebeldaughtercookies.com