{"id":19601,"date":"2011-02-22T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=19601"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:54:51","slug":"brooklyn-dessert-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/19601\/brooklyn-dessert-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dessert Crawl in South Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abby Denson is the founder and creative spirit behind TheCitySweetTooth. She draws and documents the best pastry shops, bakeries, and cafes in New York City and beyond. Check out Abby’s blog citysweettooth.com<\/a> or follow her at @citysweettooth.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’ve ever entertained the thought of doing a dessert bar crawl, Brooklyn has a seductive assortment of sweet spots worth an outer borough trip. When the snow has melted, take a walk south on Court Street for some award-winning, locally made ice cream at Blue Marble<\/strong><\/a> (196 Court St.) where a cone’ll run you $3-$4. During any time of year, turn down Dean Street for a visit to One Girl Cookies<\/strong><\/a> (68 Dean St.) for a whoopie pie\u2013with or without some liquid courage\u2013and an adorable classic cookie collection ($1 and up).<\/p>\n

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Next up, pop in to Sweet Melissa Patisserie<\/strong> (276 Court St.), brimming with lovely baked goods ($3-$8), a nice tea selection, and delicious savories. Head west towards the nostalgic Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain<\/a> <\/strong>(513 Henry St.), home of soda jerks, egg creams, and killer sundaes ($2.50 and up). Finally, stroll over to Smith Street and check out Eton Too<\/strong><\/a>, home of some damn good dumplings\u2013the chicken with mushrooms (about $4) are the best. Come spring, finish the tour with a Hawaiian style shave ice topped in syrups of your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abby Denson is the founder and creative spirit behind TheCitySweetTooth. She draws and documents the best pastry shops, bakeries, and cafes in New York City and beyond. Check out Abby’s blog citysweettooth.com or follow her at @citysweettooth. If you’ve ever entertained the thought of doing a dessert bar crawl, Brooklyn has a seductive assortment of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":19602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,314],"tags":[39,155,447,601,606,257],"class_list":{"0":"post-19601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-dining-nightlife","9":"tag-cafe","10":"tag-chocolate","11":"tag-desserts","12":"tag-dumplings","13":"tag-self-guided-tour","14":"tag-walking-tour"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":19602,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5465131375_6796429678-286x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}