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Thrilling Treats for Your Monsters' Ball - Halloween 2007
Yummy Mummy Cupcake Cafe, 545 Ninth Ave., nr. 40th St.; 212-268-9975
Don't get wrapped up with orange and black sprinkles. These conceptual cupcakes are a head above the competition (small, $2.75; large, $4).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Warty and Lovin' It Ruthy's Bakery & Cafe at Chelsea Market, 75 Ninth Ave., nr. 15th St.; 212-463-8800
Before the party: You choose whether it’s chocolate or vanilla. At the party: Your guests fight over who gets the nose ($85).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Big-City Bats Bouchon Bakery, 10 Columbus Circle, nr. 58th St., third fl.; 212-823-9366
Thomas Keller redesigns the Oreo as a vampiric confection with a spiced crème filling ($2.75 each).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Boootiful Bouchées La Maison du Chocolat, 30 Rockefeller Pl., at 49th St.; 212-265-9404
Artfully shaped milk and dark chocolate conceal praline, walnuts, orange peels, and raisins ($20 for the pair).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Friendly Phantoms One Girl Cookies, 68 Dean St., nr. Smith St., Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; 212-675-4996
The scariest thing about this cupcake topped by 3-D ghosts is how many you'll want to eat ($2.25 each).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Skeletal Slice Baked, 359 Van Brunt St., nr. Dikeman St., Red Hook, Brooklyn; 718-222-0345
Three dark-chocolate layers of cake with white-chocolate buttercream frosting drizzled in chocolate ganache are sure to put some meat on your bones (eight-inch, $56.50; ten-inch, $66.50).
Photo Courtesy of Baked
Hungry Haunting Eleni’s, 75 Ninth Ave., nr. 14th St.; 212-255-7990
Painstakingly painted in ghoulish colors, these cookies will also turn your tongue a frightful black (set of thirteen cookies, $65).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Bloody Delicious Babycakes NYC, 248 Broome St., nr. Ludlow St.; 212-677-5047
The blood-colored filling is a tribute to Marilyn Manson; the crumbly vegan cake, an inadvertent nod to his career ($5 each).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Guileful Gourd Dean & DeLuca, 560 Broadway, at Prince St.; 212-226-6800
White chocolate and Peruvian dark cacao cloak a mildly sweet squash center intensified by a roasting with butter and clove ($36 for a box of twenty).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Whoopie! Pumpkin Pies One Girl Cookies, 68 Dean St., nr. Smith St.; 212-675-4996
Pumpkin-bread sides, bright-orange centers, and green frosting leaves! If these mini-treats grew in patches, we'd be there to harvest them ($1.50 each).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Festive Breakfast Doughnut Plant, 379 Grand St., nr. Essex St.; 212-505-3700
Start the day off with a glazed pumpkin doughnut in one of two meltingly rich styles (cake doughnut, $1.50; yeast doughnut, $2).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Arachnophilia Black Hound New York, 170 Second Ave., nr. 10th St.; 212-979-9505
Two spiders have spun a web of bittersweet mousse and marzipan on a buttery almond cake with chocolate inner layers and a white ganache outer shell (three-inch, $7.50; six-inch, $27.50).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Freakishly Frozen Filling Emack & Bolio's, 73 W. Houston St., nr. Wooster St.; 212-533-5610
If you're really enthusiastic about pumpkin pie, try it in ice-cream form—with or without a crust (individual pie, $5.50; pint, $7.25; quart, $13.50).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Boney Booty Christopher Norman Chocolates, 60 New St., nr. Beaver St.; 212-402-1243
The edible, hollow pumpkin chest holds hand-crafted, cashew-
caramel-chocolate truffles (skull, $10; pumpkin box, $28).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Cuckoo for Cocoa Heads Vosges Haut Chocolat, 132 Spring St., nr. Greene St.; 212-625-2929
Skulls of dark, milk, or white chocolate let you to be morbid and multicultural at the same time ($8 each).
Photo by Everett Bogue
Nostalgic Nosh Big Booty Bread Co., 261 W. 23rd St., nr. Seventh Ave.; 212-414-3056
Drop that fistful of candy corn and bite into a ghostly peep ($2.50 each).
Photo Courtesy of Big Booty Bread Co.
