Early-morning shopping sprees have left me dragging and looking for a quick surge of energy. Luckily, there’s a handy solution that will satisfy even the most chocolate-obsessed: the chocolate-pistachio biscotti and kitchen-sink cookies at Nashoba Brook Bakery. The dark-brown biscotti ($1.25), studded with pistachios, are rich with butter, cocoa powder, and semisweet chocolate. The moist kitchen-sink cookies ($1.50) burst with white and dark chocolate, deep-red dried cranberries, walnuts, and pecans. What better way to recharge your batteries this holiday season?
Available at Nashoba Brook Bakery & Café, 288 Columbus Avenue, in Boston, (617) 236-0777; and 152 Comm Ave, in West Concord, (978) 318-1999.