By the Way Redux

I posted previously about By the Way Bakery. I had tried the gluten-free chocolate chip cookie. My second visit, just before Passover, was to try the chocolate chocolate chip cookie. It was a bit chewier than the chocolate chip variety, almost like a brownie, and as tasty. They do use rich chocolate.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie

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BTW Bakery

Chocolate Chip Cookie

I found this bakery on Manhattan's Upper East Side, called "by the way Bakery." BTW Bakery advertises itself as gluten free, dairy free, and kosher. It uses really good chocolate, too. They had small samples of fudge and I gave that a try. So chocolatey rich. I bought a couple of chocolate chip cookies to eat at home, though I ate one while walking and taking photos in that neighborhood. The cookies were very tasty and chewy, but not more chewy than others I've had that were made with the usual ingredients. No delivery or mail order, but I'll definitely make some return visits.

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Tale of Two Cookies

Today was a chocolate chip cookie day.

It started when I was walking around taking photos and got hungry. The First Street Garden in Manhattan's East Village has a MUD kiosk, so I bought a large chocolate chip cookie. Regrettably, I ate it before I thought to take a photo of it. It was a mix of crunchy and chewy, with delicious, melted chocolate chips, the melting of which might be due to the temperature hitting the 70s F.

Sign on MUD Kiosk: "Don't Worry Everything is Going to Be Amazing"

I continued walking and happened upon a small bakery called Sweet Generation where I bought a large chocolate chip cookie. This one was paler, and not as sweet, which leads me to think they don't use dark brown sugar. The cookie was crunchier than MUD's, though the center was somewhat gooey. It was tasty yet very different than MUD's. The story of the bake shop is a fascinating one, too, growing out of the owners involvement with arts education.

Chocolate Chip Cookie from Sweet Generation

I'm constantly amazed at how different two cookies of the same type can be. Chocolate chip cookies are so basic, yet the recipes, and therefore, taste, vary greatly.


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Baked Goods

I was at Chelsea Market with a friend and saw these yummy looking items at Amy's Bread and thought I'd give them a try.

Chocolate Twists

The larger and darker of these chocolate twists was made with sourdough bread. I love sourdough bread, but I think I found something I don't like with chocolate. Sourdough is a dense bread and I thought it overwhelmed the tasty chocolate. The regular bread twists were quite yummy, and the chocolate was a nice, dark chocolate flavor. They make a nice quick breakfast or snack.

I also picked up a couple of amazing cinnamon rolls that taste awesome toasted with muenster cheese!

Cinnamon Roll with Cheese

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Five Star Cookies

Some yummy chocolate bakery cookies to see us into the weekend. From Moishe's, one of my favorite bakeries. The sandwich cookies are filled with jam. One had raspberry jam, but I ate these so fast I can't remember what the other jam was.

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Chipping In

Spent a lot of time walking this week, in two parks. Central Park on Wednesday and Carl Schurz Park on Friday. Then I treated myself to this yummy chocolate chip muffin, which I swear had my name on it. Or it was calling to me. Something like that. This chocolate yummyness is thanks to Orwasher's Bakery.

Chocolate Chip Muffin

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Chocolate Grows in Brooklyn

This yummy chocolate twist pastry came from Bien Cuit, one of the bakeries I visited with friends in Brooklyn. It was nice and flaky, and encrusted with chocolate chips.

Chocolate Twist

These yummy brownies came from Baked, also in Brooklyn. I got the deep dark chocolate brownie and the sweet and salty brownie. They also had a blondie.

Chocolate Brownies

 These are the most acceptable truffles from Albanese Candy in Indiana. I got cherry, raspberry, and caramel truffles. All were yummy, and though I've had better chocolate, I do recommend these.

Chocolate Truffles

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Chocolate in the City

A couple of friends and I went walking around Brooklyn on Friday, in the Red Hook neighborhood, where we had a chocolicious encounter with Baked, a bakery with a penchant for wondrous chocolate concoctions. I had a Brookster, which is a chocolate chip cookie brownie, and had a taste of a chocolate cloud cookie. Both were very yummy, with the cloud cookie lighter and airier, but just as chocolicious. There was seating and they serve some beverages as well as wraps and a couple of sandwiches if you want something more substantial besides yummy desserts.

Brookster from Baked

I brought home a couple of brownies -- more on them, later! -- and as we moved into another Brooklyn neighborhood, we stopped off at another bakery called Bien Cuit, which has a Greenwich Village shop as well as the one on Smith Street in Brooklyn and offer breads as well as dessert fare. But I'll save that for my next post, mostly because I need to have new things to blog about. ;)

If you're ever in Brooklyn, give these bakeries a try. You won't regret it.


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Ummmmm.... Chocolate

After seeking out potato latkes for Chanukah, a friend and I went to one of our favorite kosher bakeries, Moishe's, for dessert. I took a few photos to drive all you chocoholics out there crazy. ;)

Chocolate Cookies

Cakes and Cookies

Check out that Checkerboard Cake

Feeling: content

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