By Miriam Gottfried
Upper West Side bakeries are ramping up for the holidays, adding various seasonal items to their menus. Here’s a look at the December goodies at a few of them:
Bakery Soutine will be offering various gingerbread constructions, honey bourbon fruitcake, Royal Navy plum pudding, croquembouche and Buche de Noel. www.soutine.com
Buttercup Bake Shop will be [...]
What could be a better Halloween treat than cupcakes crowned with candy corn “teeth?” Try these goodies from Upper West Side Chef Renee Marton on your young (and grownup!) ghosts and goblins:
Witch’s Teeth Halloween Cupcakes
Makes one dozen cupcakes.
INGREDIENTS
1 28-ounce can pumpkin, drained in a paper liner or towel lined strainer, for one hour
3 eggs
¾ [...]
If you’re looking for a great cupcake–one of the best I’ve sampled–you’ll have to drive a couple of hours to Greenport on Long Island’s North Fork. There, you’ll find vineyards laced with vines just beginning to bud. But the sumptuous cupcakes at new Greenport Bakery Butta’ Cakes are more intoxicating than the local wines. In [...]
Many people have asked to see an image of the Obama cupcakes I wrote about for Huffington Post. I can’t upload the picture to the original post, so I’m posting it here. These cupcakes were produced by the Little Cupcake Bakeshop in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to honor Obama’s inauguration.
