Certain times call for restraint, but other times you just want all-out decadence. In the form of chocolate, of course. From the famous triple layered chocolate cake at The Chocolate Room to fudgy dark chocolate sweet and salty brownies by the guys at Baked, there's no shortage of places in the city to satisfy that craving.
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To kick off Serious Eats New York Bakery Week,
here are our Top 10 "American" bakeries in New York—where we return again and again for brownies and peanut butter cookies and chocolate cakes. Check out our favorite treats at each!
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It's no secret that we at Serious Eats love
Baked in Red Hook (they won our search for the
best cupcake in NYC in 2011). Since Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito opened Baked in 2005, the duo has been churning out baked goods tasty enough for the trek out to Red Hook.
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What we've learned this week is that bakeries that make great pies might
not make great pumpkin pies. Which is why we tasted a few dozen all over New York to find you the best for your Thanksgiving table.
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We know, we know—it's been
years since cupcakes first hit New York. And Serious Eats is not the sort of blog that breathlessly covers every new cupcakery in the city. But at some point, we came to the realization that, when asked where sold the best cupcakes in New York City, we didn't have an answer. And that just wouldn't do. So we tracked down New York's best.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] It's not often that I make it out to Baked in Red Hook, but on the rare occasion I do, I always make sure to include a brownie with my order. A Sweet and Salty...
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After six formal blind taste-tests, hundreds of cookies behind us, and a final half-dozen follow-up taste-offs to ensure consistency—
we're ready to declare a winner. The Top 11 Countdown, listed after the jump and in the slideshow above.
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Whether you live in the city and you're sending a loved one New York's best, or you're bringing an expat New Yorker memories of home, there are all sorts of quintessential NYC eats.
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[Photographs: Robyn Lee] The 2009 SWEET fest at the New York Wine and Food Festival was full of surprises. The things we expected to be best were not, and accordingly, other unanticipated sweets blew us away. Peanut butter with...
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Rice Krispie treats are good, homemade ones are even better, and homemade ones topped with smooth layers of chocolate and peanut butter—wow, um, swoon. Robyn and I were on a 12 Days of Hot Chocolate mission at Baked in...
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