“Nobody needs baked goods, but everybody loves them,” says Lindsay Koenig, the owner of Triple Chip , which now delivers cookies, babkas, pies, and more throughout Santa Barbara. “I love watching people’s faces when you bring them something, especially when it’s unexpected.”
That happened to me when Koenig dropped off a box of her goodies on a recent Friday. I’d forgotten they were coming, so my family was overjoyed to see an array of sweets, from the signature triple-chocolate chip and brown butter chocolate chip cookies to the cinnamon and birthday-cake babkas. I was drawn to the one savory treat: an everything-bagel babka with confit garlic cream cheese woven throughout. The box was dusted within a couple of days.
Koenig learned to love baking as a young child, cooking with her mother and grandmother in their Sherman Oaks home. “We’re a Jewish family,” she explained. “I grew up always making desserts for the holidays.”
