Editor's note: It's been a long, yummy year on Serious Eats: New York, but with new posts every day, it can be hard to keep up. So we're recapping the greatest hits of 2009 in The Year That Was. Click here for more recaps.

With only a few days until your New Year's Resolutions kick in, it's time to look back at the best sweets and desserts of 2009—and there were quite a few, from doughnuts to beer pretzel caramels to liquid nitrogen ice cream to many, many chocolate chip cookies.