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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Ginger Spice Cake ($2.50) in the morning and
Hazelnut Cake ($2.50) in the afternoon is how I like my visits to
Duane Park Patisserie.
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We've got a tartufo with silky hot fudge, my favorite blueberry tart in the city, a tiramisu to die for, and an equally divine chocolate eclair—as well as a soft-serve stuffed eclair in the East Village. There's hot breakfast ensaimadas and a classic on Aquavit's dessert menu. And don't forget the Whoopie Pie!
Today, our Top 10 Desserts of 2010.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] Duane Park Patisserie is known for its great Apple Turnovers ($2.50). These golden, flaky wonders must be procured before 10 a.m., lest they sell out for the day. But on a few recent visits, I found...
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] We're ending this week with a killer eclair ($3.50), perhaps my favorite in the city. Head over to Duane Park Patisserie in Tribeca and have the eclair ($3.50) finished in dark chocolate. There's one communal...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] An afternoon pick-up coupling chocolate and espresso into one dark fudgy square with a crackly top. Far too sweet for my taste buds, but hard to refuse when shared with a friend and accompanied by a...
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Ed has been on a little turnover kick lately. Some apple ones found their way into the office, and then along came a cherry from Duane Park Patisserie. There's really nothing bad to say about this one. It has...
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A good apple turnover, like a good man, is hard to find. We're talking seriously good here: flaky, moist, buttery pastry, just firm enough, not too sweet, apples that have been cooked and carmelized before fill the pastry, and-this...
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Why do most birthcake cakes suck? I'd really like to know. While everybody else is singing "Happy Birthday," I'm thinking about how that first forkful of cake is going to be dry, virtually tasteless, and inedibly sweet, with grainy icing....
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A great turnover is a rare and wonderful thing. And in New York, there is only one truly great turnover, made by Madeline Lanciani in her easy to miss Tribeca neighborhood bakery, Duane Park Patisserie (179 Duane St. bet. Hudson...
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