Cookies and Cream Pastry Shop began in a home kitchen before becoming a small neighborhood bakery in Kew Gardens. It makes its baked goods on the premises and creates custom cakes for people marking important occasions.
Gourmet Bake ShopGourmet Bake Shop has been making breads, pastries, and cakes from scratch in New Hyde Park since the 1940s. The neighborhood bakery is especially known for custom cakes, including wedding designs and children’s cakes, while its daily case also features hand-baked treats made with carefully selected ingredients.NEW HYDE PARK, NY
Geneva BakeryGeneva Bakery grew from Linda Rannels’s childhood baking at her parents’ produce stand into an East Petersburg bakery making cakes, pies, pastries and cookies from scratch. Rannels started the bakery in 2008 after converting her home garage into an inspected commercial kitchen, then moved in 2015 into the former church building where she worshiped as a child and where her parents were married. Today, the bakery is especially known for made-to-order cakes with creamy, not-too-sweet buttercream and fresh daily baked goods.EAST PETERSBURG, PA
The Bearded BakerAfter six years of selling macarons at farmers’ markets across New York state, Scott Krevat opened The Bearded Baker in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill in 2021, where he makes handmade macarons and other baked treats. Krevat taught himself the pastry from scratch in 2015, drawing on the meticulous thinking of his chemistry studies at NYU, and still develops seasonal flavors alongside the bakery’s cookies, brownies and other sweets. The shop also prepares specialty treats for parties and events and ships its macarons nationwide.BROOKLYN, NY