Fast-growing local cookie store chooses Buffalo for its third location

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A growing cookie shop is targeting Elmwood Village for its third location.

Half-Baked Cookies is expected to open in July after signing a lease for 1,500 square feet at the Pardee at 451 Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo, where Billionaire Creamery closed its doors last summer. It is part of the larger Elmwood Crossing campus being developed by Ellicott Development and Sinatra & Co.

The bakery, which also sells Perry’s ice cream, is known for its giant stuffed cookies. Among the items on the menu: the monster, a classic cookie dough mixed with M&M’s and Oreos; as well as specialties like a raspberry cheesecake cookie made with cheesecake batter, white chocolate chips and raspberry pieces; or peanut butter s’mores, made with graham cracker dough mixed with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and filled with marshmallows.

Angila “Angie” Snediker started with a home bakery, then opened her first brick-and-mortar store in July 2021 at 5091 Day Road, across from Day Road Park in Lockport. It expanded last summer with a second location at 5407 Sheridan Drive in Williamsville Place Plaza.