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[REPOST] Never Choose Between an After Dinner Drink or Dessert Again With This East Village Lava Cake

2025-02-17T12:00:00-05:00

Spot Dessert Bar, the subterranean East Village dessert cafe on St. Marks Place, keeps New Yorkers on their toes with unexpected flavors and imaginative dishes (anyone up for an edible Poké Ball?!).

Following their “East Meets West” vision, Spot has created a molten lava cake filled with rich dark chocolate and Japanese green tea. Check out this video from INSIDER to witness just how oozy this dessert is.

Feast your eyes on this green tea lava cake. It’s dusted with matcha, and oozes green tea and chocolate.

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[VIDEO] Founder Christina Tosi Discusses the Origins and Inspiration Behind Momofuku Milk Bar

2024-10-03T12:00:00-04:00

Flatt Magazine recently uploaded this great little profile of Pastry Chef Christina Tosi and co-owner of Momofuku Milk Bar in New York City. In the video, Tosi talks a little about her passion for baking, as well as the origins and inspiration behind her Milk Bar.

New York City can be a really funny place, but I think it's equally as important to sort of balance myself and dream about food but also remembering real life; that I came here to carve out my place and I have.

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[WATCH] Here's How Bed-Stuy's Green Bakery Supplies New York City with Delicious Babkas

2024-06-12T12:00:00-04:00

Green’s Bakery is the biggest babka wholesaler in New York City. Seen everywhere from iconic delis like Katz’s to popular groceries like Dean & Deluca and Whole Foods, Green’s babkas have become a staple in the city. The family-run business continues to use the same traditional recipe from Chana Green, an immigrant who came to the United States from Hungary after World War II. Producer Medha Imam visited the Brooklyn factory to get a behind-the-scenes tour and learn how the small business turned its moist bread and chocolate babka recipe into a gastronomic institution.

Check out Green's Bakery to learn more about their delicious Babkas.

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[WATCH] The World's Best Carrot Cake is in The Bronx, NYC

2023-09-10T12:00:00-04:00

Ask any New Yorker where the best carrot cake in the world is, and they'll tell you it's in the Bronx. Join us as we head uptown to Lloyd's Carrot Cake, a black-owned business in its second generation of family ownership. Co-Owner Lilka Adams tells us the hopeful story of how her father took a recipe from his upbringing in St. Thomas, and brought it to the world.

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[WATCH] Turf War: The Dark Side of NYC Ice Cream Trucks

2023-05-24T12:00:00-04:00

New York City’s ice cream trucks have had a long-running turf war involving violence, intimidation tactics, and private investigators — here’s what you need to know🍦

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[WATCH] How The Oldest Chocolate House In New York City Survived A Century

2023-05-09T12:00:00-04:00

Li-Lac Chocolates is Manhattan’s oldest chocolate shop, having survived decades of change in New York City. Since Li-Lac opened in 1923, owners have stuck to the founder’s original chocolate recipes while adding new confections along the way. Today, Li-Lac makes its legendary fudge, butter crunch, and truffles, as well as over 1,000 specialty molds for occasions like Easter and Thanksgiving. The company has six locations in New York City, with all of its ingredients made inside its Brooklyn factory.

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[VIDEO] This is the Oldest Chocolate House in New York City

2023-04-12T12:00:00-04:00

Li-Lac Chocolates is a chocolate shop and factory in Sunset Park, Brooklyn that creates some of the best chocolate and chocolate-covered items in the City. Learn more In this video from Insider.

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[VIDEO] The Best Cannoli in New York City With Action Bronson

2023-01-25T12:00:00-05:00

Action Bronson continues his never ending quest to learn how to cook and bake and everything. This time we are in Brooklyn at Fortunato Brothers Bakery to learn how the best cannoli in New York City are made. Action's guide is Biagio Fortunato, a second generation pasticere and co-owner of the bakery. Bronson starts off with an espresso and a deliziosa, before trying his hand at rolling out the dough for the shells. After Action, Biagio, and the crew finish frying the cannoli shells, Bronson unveils his special flavor cannoli cream. Enjoy.

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[WATCH] Peek Inside JoMart, Brooklyn's Oldest Chocolate Factory

2022-11-08T12:00:00-05:00

JoMart Chocolates is a small Brooklyn chocolate shop in Madison that has been making chocolates and candies by hand since 1946. In this short video from CBS New York, watch as host Elle McLogan takes a peek inside to see what they have to offer.

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[WATCH] There is a Speakeasy Tucked Behind This Upper East Side Ice Cream Shop

2022-10-23T12:00:00-04:00

UES. is an interesting new ice cream parlor on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that has a unique twist hidden in back. It is the City's first speakeasy ice cream shop, and in this video from ABC 7 see what it's all about.

We got the inside scoop at the neon ice-cream cone lighting up Second Avenue on the Upper East Side.

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