Lots of Free Cookie Samples at the Kambly Cookie Factory in Trubschachen

(This post published on December 15, 2025 -- Since this first trip, we have been at the Kambly Cookie store many times, especially when we ended a hike nearby!)

Sunday November 3, 2013 -- My Aunt Ruth had told us about the Kambly Cookie Factory in Trubschachen (Canton Bern), where they sell the "less than perfect" cookies (and also crackers) in larger packs for less than it costs to buy the perfect cookies in the shops. The fun part about this factory shop is that you can taste as many of the cookies as you like! But you cannot take any samples with you, and you cannot even take the cookies into the adjoining café (where you can buy pastries with your coffee). 

Because I had never been to a place where you can sample cookies for free, I ate too many, and went home with a stomach ache! We also bought a few bags of the ones we liked best! 

There is even a "special" train called the "Kambly Train" decorated with cookies, which travels between Luzern and the town of Langnau in the Emmental, stopping at the factory in Trubschachen along the way.

We board the Kambly Train in Luzern

The Kambly train at the Trubschachen train station.

It's quite a walk from the train stop past the factory buildings to the factory store!

What fun! You can taste as many cookies as you want! You just can't take them out of the store. 

Urs is quite happy to be here at the cookie store as well!

After tasting the cookies, we started to collect bags of the ones we like the best!

The cookies are sold in 500g bags for about 10 Fr.. each. These are second-grade cookies, but taste just as good as the perfect ones!

Oh no, this cookie box needs a refill!

Decoration inside the shop. 

Many shelves of sweet and salty biscuits. (There are also pretzel sticks, puff-pastry sticks, goldfish and other salty crackers). 

Kids love it too!

Kids can sign up to decorate their own gingerbread houses! You can also watch the personnel created specialty chocolates. 

A few more chocolate-covered cookies before we head to the cash to pay for our purchases. I ended up with a belly-ache on the way home.... 

This is what we came home with! A variety of our favourite cookies, plus a bag of savoury puff pastry sticks with olive filling!