Makeda’s Homemade Cookies

We frequent this business often, and went here earlier today only to get the same top notch customer service and quality cookies yet again! This business is by far one of the vety BEST in the city of Memphis. The owners are fabulous and the cookies are absolutely amazing! I highly recommend you try them out.

Simply the best cookies out there. We get them from the Airways store when we’re on that side of town but more than that, we get them from the Kroger up the street from our house. Reminds me of those butter cookies we used to get in school back in the 80’s. The iced oatmeal and lemon cookies are great too.

Hands down best cookie you will ever have. Banana pudding is to die for. Butter cookies are my favorite. Love me some Makeda’s!

The best butter cookie you will put in your mouth in the south. They sell these cookies at Kroger now to I literally ate a whole bag on my way home. There like crack and you can’t eat just one. They make a banana pudding with these cookies and it’s so good. But you can make your own banana pudding using there cookies

I love Makeda’s cookies. The people here are very nice, and always helpful. I recently met the owners at the downtown location with I hope succeeds in it’s location.
I’ll mention 1 more thing about Makeda’s, and, PLEASE take my advice, get the banana pudding. I recently pissed of my step mother as I mentioned Makeda’s version was the best commercial version I have ever tasted, and almost matched hers. She’s still not let me forget that statement. Makeda’s substitutes small butter cookies for vanilla wafers in their version. EXCELLENT.

The best cookies in Memphis with great customer service! The banana pudding is the best I’ve ever had.

Makeda’s happens to make the best cookies I’ve ever had. It doesn’t matter if I’m spending a weekend in Memphis or if I’m just passing though on a trip to somewhere else, I have to stop in and get cookies. It’s hard to pick a favorite but I highly recommend the white chip macadamia, peanut butter, and iced oatmeal. On our latest stop in to the shop, we were super excited to learn that they now ship cookies, too!

We stopped in their new store around the corner from the civil rights museum. Wonderful, tender, melt in your mouth cookies and the most delightful and friendly people of our 2500 mile road trip.

This family business sells delectable cookies and other sweets like lemon pie and banana pudding.
They have an uncanny ability to blend the perfect flavors that make their treats addictive.
The butter cookies crumble in your mouth and then sort of melt away like Biscottis.
I ordered several holiday cookie boxes (they also have metal tins) that I plan to hand out as stocking stuffers for acquaintances.
Makeda’s wraps their brand around every holiday, from specially decorated Christmas sweets to Valentine’s Day cookie creations.
You can also order online.

Maybe this review isn’t fair. I feel like Makeda’s is suffering from my absolute insistence that cookies be soft and moist and chewy and not hard and dry and crunchy. I know that some people like their cookies in the latter category and if you do… well, you’re stupid and a poopy face.
I am a relativist. I think that there is no absolute truth, and everyone’s perception influences their individual truth. That being said, there is no relative way to eat a cookie. It should be, at all times, moist, chewy, and soft. Makeda’s falls woefully short of this mark.
The store is located on Airways, and my coworker, The Oracle of Good Shit to Eat in Memphis, had been hyping this place up for a while. I stopped by one day after dropping my mom off at the airport. The neighborhood might make someone who isn’t 6’4″, 330 lbs, and black slightly uncomfortable, but I dapped a homeless dude up on the way into the store like a G… then, i promptly used some Germ-​X cause I’m clearly not a G. The store has all kinds of cookie creations, some involving ice cream, and all of them look delicious. I opted to go with a special of three cookies for about 7 dollars. I thought that the price was a little steep, but the cookies were a great size, so I bought them. The owner enthusiastically talked up his butter cookies and threw one in free of charge for me.
Normally, my barometer of a great cookie is how many do I grab before i sit down on the couch, and, once i eat all of those cookies, do I seriously contemplate getting back up to get more? With these cookies, the question was do i seriously contemplate getting up to throw the cookies i am eating away? I had the chocolate chip/​peanut butter, the double chocolate chip, the M and M and the free butter cookie. I can see why people rave about the butter cookie, it was clearly head and shoulders above the rest. The other cookies were pretty bad.
My coworker, The Oracle of Good Shit to Eat in Memphis, now lives in Charlotte, so I will let his only disaster slide. You may like the cookies at Makeda’s …if you’re a poopy face.

I’ve been stopping by this place for their fantastic butter cookies for more than a decade now. The butter cookies are just right: sweet and kinda melt in your mouth. There is not another flavor of cookie that I would recommend. The service is friendly and fast. Life is too short for lame cookies. Get the best butter cookies here.

Ok, I don’t know where the last person came from who reviewed this business. Firstly, this business has existed since 1999 and the name was adapted from the owner’s daughter, Makeda, who passed away at the time. Also, this is located on 2370 Airways Blvd, not Madison Avenue. The Madison location was owned by the older daughter who was too busy with her studies. That location is now closed.
Now on to the cookies. I discovered these cookies, one day, when I was walking through Krogers and happened to see some butter cookies on display. I was immediately influenced to buy them because I had not had any since grade school. When I finally tasted them, they were FANTASTIC. If they didn’t taste like that unique recipe of butter cookies from elementary school, they tasted BETTER. Furthermore, I was saddened when Krogers stopped selling those delicious cookies and that is when I discovered that they had a business in Memphis. One of which is on Airways Blvd. Although the décor may not suit the style of the high maintenance, the cookies greatly make up for that. Their cookies are not all crumbly like the last reviewed described them and, to my knowledge, they are made fresh daily. If they’re not made fresh, then they definately taste fresh every time I buy them. Also, these cookies are not greasy. They are perfect!
As for the price, it is $ 1.50 for a big cookie or 5 cookie bites. They also have a deal where you can but 5 for 6 dollars and they give you a punch out card. If you use this punch card several times, then they give you 5 free cookies. It can’t get any better then that! I mean, come on! They’re a growing business. I’m surprised they’re still a small business with these amazing tasting cookies.
I had to write this review because the one before me was very dishonest. I have been buying cookies from this business for years and have never had a problem. My friends have even said that they loved these cookies after I introduced them to the shop. My advice to the reviewer before me is to try the location on Airways. Your opinion will be greatly changed.

This is a relatively new small business, that just moved to a new location on Madison Ave. I passed by there a few times, intrigued by the idea of a cute little homemade cookie shop. However, this establishment is doesn’t exactly meet up to it’s seemingly cute name. I went it one day with a sweet tooth, excited to buy one of their homemade cookies. I know this place is newer, but when I walked in all I saw was white walls, white counters, white everything. Not very homey and welcoming. There was nowhere to sit to enjoy a baked good, and even though the lady at the counter was smiley and pleasant, I found the building to be anything but.
I glanced at the selection, which wasn’t much, and asked about cookie prices. I believe they wanted almost $ 3.00 for a cookie– and not even a big cookie. These cookies were your average size bake-​sale cookies. There weren’t many options to choose from, and they did not look appetizing, really.
I saw a basket of day old cookies– 2 for a dollar, and chose one of those, for the sake of helping this bakery out. I grabbed a butter cookie (because those were the only kind in there), promptly paid my dollar plus tax, and walked out. I tried the cookie shortly after, and it was more butter than cookie. It was heavy, greasy, and crumbly. I ended up spitting out the bite of cookie, and giving the other cookie to my roommates. Their reaction was the same to mine and without hesitation, threw the cookie out. In a nutshell, this cookie shop isn’t worth grabbing a cup of milk for.