1. 9 months ago 

   

   

   Betty Bakery, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

   Kids, I have eaten in more than my fair share of dessert bakeries, and if Betty is not pretty much the best I’ve yet to find in North America, I can’t remember what is. Unlike certain really ridiculously overrated venues in DC and Manhattan that have become tourist destinations, and/or brand themselves with silly product names like “Crunchyfeet”, it’s actually all about the food here. It’s not buttercream that merely looks like buttercream: it’s buttercream that tastes like… well, like if heaven had baker-angels, and those angels had dreams about what the perfect supra-heavenly buttercream would taste like… right? Yeah, that’s what this tastes like. Texture, moisture, flavor… they’ve got it all.

   And damn if it isn’t hella cute to boot. Oh, and they make homemade Twinkies and Ding-Dongs. (I think that snackfood which somehow does good deeds during its life gets to reincarnate here…)

Yeah, New York can be big, noisy, impersonal, and ridiculously expensive. All true… but all totally compensated for (says the new guy) by the rest of it. So, this tumblr blog is my attempt to share all the felicity, the magic, and even the everyday stuff that everybody knows about but which you just can’t find anywhere else. Because for me, New York is… Felicity City.

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