The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie In New York City

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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23 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, January 18, 2010 at 9:30 AM
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What's Your Favorite Cupcake In New York?

All the polls! Today is National Cupcake Day, so at the Serious Eats People's Choice Awards, our thoughts naturally turn in that direction. In New York, we certainly have no shortage of options—from chain cupcakeries to smaller bakeries to the...

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47 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, December 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Tagged: Billy's Bakery, Butter Lane, Crumbs, cupcakes, Dessert Club, Magnolia Bakery, Serious Eats New York People's Choice Awards, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, Sweet Revenge

Chocolate Chip Cookie Championship: The Downtown Edition

The contenders: Milk and Cookies, Insomnia Bakery, Jack's Stir Brew, Bouley Bakery, Balthazar, Dessert Club, Paradis To Go, Roasting Plant, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, and the Downtown Cookie Company.

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20 Comments | Posted by Carey Jones, November 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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