diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b4ba359..cc62e6bf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)
  * [Middleware](docs/middleware.md)
  * [Exceptions](docs/exceptions.md)
  * [Blueprints](docs/blueprints.md)
+ * [Cookies](docs/cookies.md)
  * [Deploying](docs/deploying.md)
  * [Contributing](docs/contributing.md)
  * [License](LICENSE)
diff --git a/docs/cookies.md b/docs/cookies.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ead5f157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/cookies.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Cookies
+
+## Request
+
+Request cookies can be accessed via the request.cookie dictionary
+
+### Example
+
+```python
+from sanic import Sanic
+from sanic.response import text
+
+@app.route("/cookie")
+async def test(request):
+    test_cookie = request.cookies.get('test')
+    return text("Test cookie set to: {}".format(test_cookie))
+```
+
+## Response
+
+Response cookies can be set like dictionary values and 
+have the following parameters available:
+
+* expires - datetime - Time for cookie to expire on the client's browser
+* path - string - The Path attribute specifies the subset of URLs to 
+         which this cookie applies
+* comment - string - Cookie comment (metadata)
+* domain - string - Specifies the domain for which the
+           cookie is valid.  An explicitly specified domain must always 
+           start with a dot.
+* max-age - number - Number of seconds the cookie should live for
+* secure - boolean - Specifies whether the cookie will only be sent via
+           HTTPS
+* httponly - boolean - Specifies whether the cookie cannot be read
+             by javascript
+
+### Example
+
+```python
+from sanic import Sanic
+from sanic.response import text
+
+@app.route("/cookie")
+async def test(request):
+    response = text("There's a cookie up in this response")
+    response.cookies['test'] = 'It worked!'
+    response.cookies['test']['domain'] = '.gotta-go-fast.com'
+    response.cookies['test']['httponly'] = True
+    return response
+```
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diff --git a/sanic/request.py b/sanic/request.py
index 31b73ed8..2687d86b 100644
--- a/sanic/request.py
+++ b/sanic/request.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from cgi import parse_header
 from collections import namedtuple
+from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
 from httptools import parse_url
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs
 from ujson import loads as json_loads
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ class Request:
     Properties of an HTTP request such as URL, headers, etc.
     """
     __slots__ = (
-        'url', 'headers', 'version', 'method',
+        'url', 'headers', 'version', 'method', '_cookies',
         'query_string', 'body',
         'parsed_json', 'parsed_args', 'parsed_form', 'parsed_files',
     )
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ class Request:
         self.parsed_form = None
         self.parsed_files = None
         self.parsed_args = None
+        self._cookies = None
 
     @property
     def json(self):
@@ -105,6 +107,18 @@ class Request:
 
         return self.parsed_args
 
+    @property
+    def cookies(self):
+        if self._cookies is None:
+            if 'Cookie' in self.headers:
+                cookies = SimpleCookie()
+                cookies.load(self.headers['Cookie'])
+                self._cookies = {name: cookie.value
+                                 for name, cookie in cookies.items()}
+            else:
+                self._cookies = {}
+        return self._cookies
+
 
 File = namedtuple('File', ['type', 'body', 'name'])
 
diff --git a/sanic/response.py b/sanic/response.py
index be471078..20e69eff 100644
--- a/sanic/response.py
+++ b/sanic/response.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from datetime import datetime
+from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
 import ujson
 
 COMMON_STATUS_CODES = {
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ ALL_STATUS_CODES = {
 
 
 class HTTPResponse:
-    __slots__ = ('body', 'status', 'content_type', 'headers')
+    __slots__ = ('body', 'status', 'content_type', 'headers', '_cookies')
 
     def __init__(self, body=None, status=200, headers=None,
                  content_type='text/plain', body_bytes=b''):
@@ -81,6 +83,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
 
         self.status = status
         self.headers = headers or {}
+        self._cookies = None
 
     def output(self, version="1.1", keep_alive=False, keep_alive_timeout=None):
         # This is all returned in a kind-of funky way
@@ -95,6 +98,12 @@ class HTTPResponse:
                 b'%b: %b\r\n' % (name.encode(), value.encode('utf-8'))
                 for name, value in self.headers.items()
             )
+        if self._cookies:
+            for cookie in self._cookies.values():
+                if type(cookie['expires']) is datetime:
+                    cookie['expires'] = \
+                        cookie['expires'].strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %T GMT")
+            headers += (str(self._cookies) + "\r\n").encode('utf-8')
 
         # Try to pull from the common codes first
         # Speeds up response rate 6% over pulling from all
@@ -119,6 +128,12 @@ class HTTPResponse:
             self.body
         )
 
+    @property
+    def cookies(self):
+        if self._cookies is None:
+            self._cookies = SimpleCookie()
+        return self._cookies
+
 
 def json(body, status=200, headers=None):
     return HTTPResponse(ujson.dumps(body), headers=headers, status=status,
diff --git a/sanic/utils.py b/sanic/utils.py
index c39f03ab..4c2680e9 100644
--- a/sanic/utils.py
+++ b/sanic/utils.py
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ HOST = '127.0.0.1'
 PORT = 42101
 
 
-async def local_request(method, uri, *args, **kwargs):
+async def local_request(method, uri, cookies=None, *args, **kwargs):
     url = 'http://{host}:{port}{uri}'.format(host=HOST, port=PORT, uri=uri)
     log.info(url)
-    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(cookies=cookies) as session:
         async with getattr(session, method)(url, *args, **kwargs) as response:
             response.text = await response.text()
             return response
diff --git a/tests/test_cookies.py b/tests/test_cookies.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5b27c2e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_cookies.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
+from sanic import Sanic
+from sanic.response import json, text
+from sanic.utils import sanic_endpoint_test
+
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------ #
+#  GET
+# ------------------------------------------------------------ #
+
+def test_cookies():
+    app = Sanic('test_text')
+
+    @app.route('/')
+    def handler(request):
+        response = text('Cookies are: {}'.format(request.cookies['test']))
+        response.cookies['right_back'] = 'at you'
+        return response
+
+    request, response = sanic_endpoint_test(app, cookies={"test": "working!"})
+    response_cookies = SimpleCookie()
+    response_cookies.load(response.headers.get('Set-Cookie', {}))
+
+    assert response.text == 'Cookies are: working!'
+    assert response_cookies['right_back'].value == 'at you'
+
+def test_cookie_options():
+    app = Sanic('test_text')
+
+    @app.route('/')
+    def handler(request):
+        response = text("OK")
+        response.cookies['test'] = 'at you'
+        response.cookies['test']['httponly'] = True
+        response.cookies['test']['expires'] = datetime.now() + timedelta(seconds=10)
+        return response
+
+    request, response = sanic_endpoint_test(app)
+    response_cookies = SimpleCookie()
+    response_cookies.load(response.headers.get('Set-Cookie', {}))
+
+    assert response_cookies['test'].value == 'at you'
+    assert response_cookies['test']['httponly'] == True
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