Finding a delicious or even a good French macaron in New York City is nearly impossible. Why? It’s because it’s not that popular in comparison to (the easily confused with) the coconut macaroon and the ones I usually find taste terrible. So, Robyn and I set out a journey to find the best macaron possible [...]
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A Day of Baked Goods and Fooding: A Girls’ Day Out
This is the second, separate posts for something that has taken 6 1/2 hours of hanging out with a lot of my girlfriends. This post will be about the fooding portion of the day; the macaron hunt was the previous one. Got it? Good.
Sunday morning was the plan that Robyn and I have our macaron [...]
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Silver Moon Bakery is a gem of a bakery in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They have glorious displays of the day's baked goods that are lined up in shelves, shining in it's delicious glory. After chatting up with a local resident and a fan of this bakery, I found out that they bake seasonally and that some of their signature breads that are baked according to their schedules are worth trying for. I loved their scone and chocolate chip broiche that I have tried that day. I will return to this bakery just because I love their baked goods.
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On my way to class from the post-office at 104th, I stopped in at this bakery for breakfast and coffee. It was a pleasant surprise for me, being a brioche-lover, as they had at least six kinds of brioche! After much debate, I settled on the cream cheese & currant (although the “brioche du jour” peach brioche was tempting), which turned out to be tasty, if a little pricey ($2+). I wouldn’t say it was the most amazing brioche I’ve ever had, but it was good, and the variety was a nice touch. The cafe itself is cute, but with waitered tables; still people were sitting outside and reading, typing on laptops, which is my kind of cafe atmosphere. I do believe that to celebrate the end of my class and/or the submission of x secondaries, I will have to return and sample another brioche as a reward! (Also I had a lovely walk from here up to Columbia.)
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Josh and I had a nice long walk in Central Park this weekend, along with the rest of New York. I've never seen Strawberry Fields, and I still haven't because Josh couldn't remember where it was. Luckily he could remember where Silver Moon Bakery was located. We almost went to the Hungarian Pastry Shop but it was too crowded and we really wanted to spend more time outside and all their tables were occupied. So we headed down to Silver Moon. Now I've only had one thing there - their big French macaron. It's a bit pricey at $2.25, but I daresay it is my favorite cookie and their version is awesome. It looks like a mini hamburger, the "bun" is a crunchy almost meringue like air puff and the filling is a rich ganache. The crunch. The chew. The simultaneous richness of ganache and the lightness of the puff is a feat of engineering that shouldn't be missed. Of course, I like the macarons at the classic French bakery, Payard, on Lexington bw 73rd &74th. They are famous for their macarons, but it's a bit stuffy over there. I prefer my neighborhood, I adore Something Sweet's (corner of 11th & 1st Ave.) macarons (75cents). They sell almond, mocha, pink (strawberry?) macarons, and they are fabulous. But it's a beautiful thing to share a huge French macaroon on a bench in Riverside Park with a good friend. Try it, or some other dessert or baked good from Silver Moon. You won't be disappointed.
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