Smorgasburg vendors Leilani Terris and James Lewis expanded to the colorful Culver City storefront previously occupied by Coolhaus last fall, except now painted orchids and a neon-lighted sign with their logo welcome you inside. The cookies draw inspiration from not just the bakers’ backgrounds but all around the world, such as a mango sticky rice option that’s packed with chunks of mango and coconut flakes and frosted with a house coconut rice sauce. Flavors come and go from the menu frequently, such as the recently launched salted duck egg chili oil crisp cookie in collaboration with Hot Jiang Sauce for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (a.k.a. May). I encourage a thorough exploration to find your preferred flavor, but if I were to recommend one that rises to the top, it’d be the strawberry passion fruit that started as a seasonal offering and is now a permanent menu item. The golden-brown cookie is made with a creamy strawberry base with bits of fresh strawberry and topped with a tartly sweet passion fruit glaze. It’s fruity, tropical and tastes like you’ve been whisked away to a white-sand beach.

-By Danielle Dorsey (L.A. Times)