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- Flour Girl
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102 West 87th Street, Studio 1N, 347-526-0300; flourgirlbakery.com
Working in a bakery after studying at the French Culinary Institute, Jeri Gottlieb latched on to the idea of decorating buttercream birthday cakes with cookies rather than icing. And not just a couple of cookies, but a veritable excess of them, if such a thing is possible: Every slice gets the added treat. Looking for a dinosaur theme? Gottlieb can accommodate with a tall volcano cake with the prehistoric giants walking, or flying, the perimeter. The soccer cake has lots of players and balls. One favorite is a tower of striped and polka-dot cookie candles with floating cookie balloons.
Best Birthday Cake
- Takes the cake: The balloons-and-candles model from Flour Girl. Photo by Raymond Patrick
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PrintFrom the 2004 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine
Our mission this year: to hunt down not just the best but the best values in the eating, shopping, drinking, and general-consuming universe of New York. It’s quite the process, this, requiring eating and shopping and drinking (all in the name of research), followed by heated but civil discussion, and heated but less-civil discussion, until a winner emerges in each category.
