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Melbourne Just Got Its Own Cookie Style, and BakeStand Is Behind It
Melbourne-born cookie concept BakeStand has opened at Melbourne Walk, serving its signature “Melbourne-style” cookies with crisp edges, chewy centres and flavours from Caffè Mocha to Vegemite & Cheese.
Melbourne has always known how to turn a small pleasure into a serious pursuit. Coffee, croissants, cannoli, cake by the slice; each has its loyalists, its addresses passed between friends, its mid-afternoon rituals. Now the city has a cookie of its own.
BakeStand, the Melbourne-born cookie concept from Samsky Yeung and Vi Thao Tran, has opened its second outpost at Melbourne Walk, bringing its self-described “Melbourne-style” cookie to the CBD. The menu has been shaped with Executive Pastry Chef Steven He, whose work at Le Yeahllow and Attakai has earned him a following among dessert lovers who understand that sweetness is only part of the equation.
Here, texture is everything. BakeStand’s signature cookie is built with a crisp, tart-like edge, a chewy centre and a generous size that still feels considered. It has the comfort of something familiar, but with enough pastry craft behind it to make the whole thing feel distinctly city-made. A little elegant, a little nostalgic, very much designed for the hour when lunch has faded and coffee alone will not do.
The flavours carry that same local sensibility. Vegemite & Cheese is the one that will get people talking, folding Australia’s most divisive pantry staple into something buttery, salty and unexpectedly snackable. Banana Bread nods to the cafe counter. Caffè Mocha keeps close to Melbourne’s great caffeine inheritance. Campfire S’more and Matcha Strawberry drift sweeter, brighter and ready for the friend who always orders the fun one.
Drinks sit beside the cookies too, from Vanilla Bean Latte to Strawberry Matcha, turning the Melbourne Walk store into a neat little city stop: a cookie, a drink, a pause between errands, meetings or a slow wander through the CBD.
What makes BakeStand interesting is not just the novelty of a new cookie shop, but the confidence of its point of view. It takes the global cookie craze and filters it through Melbourne taste: structured, generous, coffee-adjacent, playful without losing the craft.
The city will, naturally, have opinions. But with crisp edges, chewy centres and a Vegemite cookie already making a case for itself, BakeStand may have just found the sweet spot.
The Opening Week Sweeteners
To mark the Melbourne Walk opening, BakeStand is giving the city a few extra reasons to make the detour. On Thursday, 28th May, cookies will be buy one, get one free from 10am to 6pm, with a limit of two purchases per person. From Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May, the first 100 customers each day who buy a box of three or seven cookies will also score one of BakeStand’s limited pink tote bags.
It is a clever little opening-week gesture: part snack run, part collectible, part extremely acceptable excuse to leave the desk before 3pm.
BakeStand is now open at Melbourne Walk.
For more sugar-led Melbourne joy, keep the city’s dessert crawl going with our guide to the best cake shops in Melbourne, from glossy patisserie counters to cult neighbourhood bakeries, then follow the crumbs to our edit of the best pastries in Melbourne for croissants, scrolls and flaky things worth crossing town for.
