Our Bakery Michael's Cookie Jar opened in October 2006 with a singular mission to make the finest all-butter cookies in Houston. After four years of offering our product through our website and local retailers, we our first retail bakery in 2010 in West University. Our second store opened downtown in the Pennzoil Tower in 2013 and our newest store opened in Tanglewood in 2017. At our store, you'll find a fantastic selection of Oven Fresh Cookies, decorated cut-out shortbread, biscotti, specialty cookies and dessert bars in our three stores. We also offer custom cookies for wedding, bridal/baby showers, birthdays and holidays. We encourage you to visit us and taste what cookies were meant to be! About Michael Michael is a professionally trained pastry chef with a degree from the Culinary Institute of America. His real education, however, took place during his 13 year tenure with the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. After working with some of the finest culinary professionals in hospitality, Michael heard his calling to start his own business. From the time he was a child, and throughout his career, Michael had a special place in his heart for cookies. These bite-sized morsels seemed, in Michael's words, to be poetry in food, seemingly simple in their brevity but complex and satisfying in actuality. Every culture of the world has its own sweet morsels and this universality seemed the perfect reason to focus his attention on cookies.