Schmackary’s
Coffee Cake – Cinnamon Sugar Ribbons, Pecans
Red Velvet Cookie – White Chocolate Chips, Cream Cheese Frosting
Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookie – Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, Bacon, Sea Salt
Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookie – Dark Cocoa, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips, Cinnamon Sugar, Cayenne Pepper
Dirty Peppermint Cookie – Dark Cocoa, White Chocolate Chips, Peppermint Bits, Peppermint Cream Cheese Frosting
Ginger Rogers Cookie – Molasses, Ginger, White Chocolate Chips, Cinnamon, Cloves, Black Pepper, Sugar Glaze
Super “C” Cookie – M&M’s, White Chocolate Chips, Sea Salt
Begun as an online business in 2011 and moved to a 45h Street Brick and Mortar location by 2015 it is from Nebraska-born Zachary Schmahl that Schmackary’s came to New York, the idea to bake Cookies just down the street from Levain intrepid but still paying off over three years later even as other places such have Chip have recently entered the market.
Eponymous for Schmahl’s nickname and homey from day one, a small seating area with newspapers just left of the counter lined in Cookies, Muffins, Scones and more, it is immediately on entry that guests are welcomed by tantalizing smells and pleasant service while prices trend lower than average for The Big Apple.
Offering a rotating selection of flavors beginning at 8am daily, the Christmas Holiday yielding two seasonal specials, it was after some debate that six of thirteen Cookies were selected in addition to one Coffee Cake, all of them still warm to touch and the latter moist yet dainty in the form of a Muffin with ribbons of Cinnamon-Sugar and caramelized Pecans adding crunch.
Cozy and surprisingly busy just thirty minutes after opening, many grabbing items to go but some choosing to linger over Coffee, it was progressing left to right from a box that Cookies kicked off with Red Velvet, the crispy edge and soft center textbook while White Chocolate Chips and rustic Cream Cheese Frosting helped balance the Cocoa.
Moving next to Bacon Chocolate Chip and then Mexican Hot Chocolate, both texturally similar from edge-to-center and the former quite salty, it was by way of “Dirty Peppermint” that Cayenne was countered before moving on to a glazed Ginngersnap, the use of Black Pepper to magnify Cloves and Ginger frankly brilliant while the Super “C” selected by an 11-year-old also punched above its weight-class thanks to granules of Sea Salt on top.
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