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1240 Avenue of the Americas (at W 49th St), New York, NY
Cupcake Shop · Rockefeller Center · 682 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Celebrating 85 years of the Radio City Christmas Music Spectacular, the confectionery wonderland has a Rockette Red Velvet cupcake topped w/ a printed chocolate of the 12 days of Christmas costume.
Halstead Property: Combine a holiday staple like eggnog in milkshake form and you have their delectable eggnog milkshake topped with whipped cream and a gingerbread cookie.
Mediterranean Restaurant · Upper West Side · 121 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: You can have your present, and eat it too w/ their “Dark Chocolate Bag” which is a mini edible bag made of sheets of Valrhona chocolate filled w/ fresh berries, raspberry mousse & whipped cream.
Halstead Property: Their steamed buns never disappoint and the rare, seasonal pumpkin rendition is no different. The airy and light buns are filled with paste made of real, fresh crushed pumpkin.
99 Stanton St (btwn Orchard & Ludlow St), New York, NY
Lounge · Lower East Side · 388 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Must try the Gingerbread twinkie w/ pumpkin cream cheese filling. The twinkie gets a high-class makeover & is made of fresh baked gingerbread cake & molasses filled w/ spices like cardamom and nutmeg.
Halstead Property: Whether you’re indulging in treats for Hanukkah or Christmas, this is a holiday dessert paradise. Try the “Christmas Diva” cookie, or the “Dreidel Dreidel Chocolate Chip Gift Tin”
Christmas Market · Union Square · 72 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Momofuku’s Christmas version of popular cornflake cookie is made of real peppermint cornflakes, chocolate chips, marshmallows & crushed candy canes and is only found at this holiday market.
841 Broadway (btwn E 13th & E 14th St), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · Greenwich Village · 675 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Can you scream chocolate? The classic European chocolate fondue comes with velvety milk and dark chocolate to go with amazing fresh fruit, airy sponge cake, chunky cookies, and sugary toffee sauce.
2167 Broadway (btwn W 76th & W 77th St), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · Upper West Side · 80 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: As we watched it pour out after a bite into the fluffy one of kind cream puffs, we couldn’t help but admire the rich and creamy filling taste made from the vanilla custard and whipped cream mixture.
Dessert Shop · East Village · 252 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: The combination of flavors, especially in the warm caramel custard soup with honey crisp apple sorbet, is perfectly balanced and served with a warm biscuit to level the sweetness.
37 Spring St (btwn Mott & Mulberry St), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · NoLita · 395 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Home of some of the best rice pudding ever made, there are over 20 options! Go for the Coast to Coast Cheesecake to get that classic New York cheesecake rich flavor with a pleasant consistency.
484 Broome St (btwn W Broadway & Wooster St), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · SoHo · 101 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Take a trip to Paris as you enter the beautifully adorned store. The passionfruit ganache is a work of art with its abstract designs, smooth consistency and refreshing fruity tang.
Halstead Property: Warm, moist chocolate crumbles in your mouth as you eat it with the thick vanilla bean homemade ice cream drizzled in hot fudge. Not only does it look like a masterpiece, but it tastes like one too!
Dessert Shop · East Village · 711 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: If you concur the best part of eating a bowl of cereal is slurping the sweetened milk after, Momofuku's Cereal Milk soft serve topped with corn flake crumbles is a breakfast game changer #GameofCones
864 Madison Ave (btwn E 70th & E 71st St), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · Upper East Side · 256 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Worlds best macaron has landed right on Madison Ave, you would expect the rose petal ones to taste like potpourri but its actually one of the best flavors. Not too sweet and the filling is so light
Halstead Property: Amazing place to sit in on a cold blustery day with a steaming cup of chocolate coconut tea! The Chocolate Bar also has a nice amount of little gifts you can purchase, such as truffles and gift boxes
132 Orchard St (btwn Delancey & Rivington), New York, NY
Ice Cream Parlor · Lower East Side · 61 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: You’ll say anything but ‘ba humbug’ to the Fezziwig - 2 of their famous sticky toffee “meltcakes” wrapped around hot buttered rum ice cream, so decadent and rich even Scrooge would be pleased.
Dessert Shop · Upper West Side · 47 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: You’d never guess these delicious confectionery pieces of heaven were created accidentally. Gourmet rice krispy treats sans holiday touch is great but the Sugar Cookie-Snowflake rendition is priceless
Halstead Property: They might be the reigning King of Desserts regardless of the season, but a holiday favorite is the sno-cap cupcake- devils food cake topped w/peaks of savory meringue icing dusted with coconut flakes
Donut Shop · Lower East Side · 429 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Give us a donut any time of the year and we’ll be happy, but our expectations were exceeded when we tasted the roasted chestnut cake holiday special. It was almost a welcomed sensory overload.
Halstead Property: We were pleading for s’ more of the savory spin on salty and sweet with a gourmet s’more oozing with rosemary marshmallow melted between 2 chocolate chip graham cookies.
13 Saint Marks Pl (btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave), New York, NY
Dessert Shop · East Village · 353 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: This place is like a tapas bar filled with innovative creations such as the Green tea lava cake. We've never seen an explosion of green tea like it, and we loved it.
1032 Lexington Ave (btwn 73rd & 74th St), New York, NY
Steakhouse · Upper East Side · 48 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol comes to life with the best figgy pudding you can find stateside; rich, sticky date pudding is served warm with buttery-sweet toffee and ginger ice cream
New American Restaurant · SoHo · 458 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: A true foodie is no stranger to the Dutch, and we’re happy to report we were pleased yet again. This time we opted for the mouthwatering Peanut butter ice box pie with salted caramel ice cream.
35 E 18th St (btwn Broadway & Park Ave S), New York, NY
New American Restaurant · Flatiron District · 721 tips and reviews
Halstead Property: Talk about dessert porn, a slice of the rich chocolate layer cake with malted chocolate ganache and toasted marshmallow icing to add texture is as heavenly as it sounds. It’s not at all overindulgent