I’ll get my good-taste card revoked for this (and possibly by no means be requested to fill in for Nikita Richardson right here once more), however I’ll select a cookie — any sort, actually — over a flaky, complicated pastry each time.
In a metropolis of more and more intricate laminated creations, there’s one thing refreshing a few straight-up cookie: an simple, unfussy little deal with. And whereas thrilling new cookies aren’t precisely a dime a dozen the way in which croissants are currently, there are a number of notable latest additions to my cookie roster.
Cornflake, meet cookie
I posted on Instagram a number of weeks in the past that white chocolate macadamia is the very best sort of cookie, and was promptly eaten alive in my DMs. Many acquaintances misplaced their belief in me that day. However for the unapologetic freaks that agree with me, there’s a brand new cornflake, white chocolate and macadamia nut cookie at Supermoon Bakehouse on the Decrease East Aspect (the place the entire menu adjustments each month — this cookie is simply there till June 3). The cornflakes piled on high are honey-roasted, sticky and caramelized, making this one a frontrunner within the W.C.M.N.C. (white chocolate macadamia nut cookie) subject.
A rosy dream
At Sofreh Cafe, which opened in Brooklyn Heights final month, the Persian pastries lined up of their jewel-box case are powerful to decide on amongst (and all nice), however the latifeh is a standout. Aromatic rose cream is sandwiched between two super-soft cookies coated in powdered sugar, and the entire deal is rolled in crushed pistachios. It’ll go away your fingers (and garments, in my case) coated in probably the most floral-scented, beautiful mud. No regrets!
Cookies for morning folks
There’s typically a line at Librae in NoHo, a bakery so well-liked that after they introduced a brand new cookie at the start of the month, it offered out earlier than 10 a.m. most days. As a day sweets individual, it took some time for me to get my fingers on one — I bought the final of the batch at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday — however it was greater than worthwhile. It’s two tender cornmeal shortbread cookies sandwiching black pepper-laced blueberry jam. That is the music of the summer time!
Higher than peanut butter
My favourite new cookie of the season, although, is the sesame seed and chocolate chunk cookie at Pan Pan Vino Vino, a bakery by day, wine bar by night time that opened in Greenpoint in February. It’s mainly a sesame model of the very best peanut butter cookie you’ve ever had, thick within the center with a caramelized-to-almost-burned backside, and topped with black and white sesame seeds.
The basic
And for a lot of “regular folks,” the right cookie might be a easy chocolate chip quantity with crispy edges and a chewy inside. Effective, you may have that! You need to beeline to the East Village bakery From Lucie, which opened in January, the place they bake the cookies all through the day. That is what you think about if you think about a chocolate chip cookie: tender, buttery center with swimming pools of chocolate (4 differing kinds) and a correct scattering of flaky salt on high. If this isn’t a cookie you may get behind, I actually don’t know what to inform you.
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