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Gourmet Cookies, Sweet and Savory at the Cravory

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Is the cookie the next cupcake? A shop called the Cravory certainly hopes so. The store, formerly 410 Degrees, offers a variety of cookie creations in some pretty wild flavors including Savory Rosemary Balsamic, Pancakes and Bacon, Red Velvet, or Chocolate Chip. The Cravory has over 950 customized cookie creations and was founded by three young guys in their early 20s in Southern California. They even offer the perfect cookies for wine pairings like a Pinot Noir Cookie with goat cheese, toasted almonds and salted caramel. Other flavors include Birthday Cake, Banana Crème Pie, Lemon Cherry Basil, Oreo Milkshake for around $24 a dozen.

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Valentine's Day Treats From Bouchon Bakery

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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We've featured a bunch of sweet treats for Valentine's Day on this site already but you can never have too much love or too much sugar. Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery is featuring some festive new creations. Shown above are the Expression cookies, classic shortbread cookies covered with white chocolate yogurt glaze. Each is complete with favorite Valentine's Day messages in chocolate, including be mine, xoxo, kiss me and I love you! and they sell for $3.75 each. Other delicious temptations include Valentine Chocolate Boxes and Cupid Cupcakes which are heart shaped devil's food cake with a passion fruit caramel center and decorated with basket weave fondant for $6.50 each. Classic Linzer cookies get a heart shape for Valentines Day and a chocolate and passionfruit velour is a heart shaped chocolate crème with a passion fruit curd center, finished with chocolate-- a temptation that will run you $8.75.You can check out more mouthwatering images at Serious Eats or just go to Bouchon and get your own.

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Sweet Treats to Send Your Sweetheart on Valentine's Day

by Deb West (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining, Holiday Guides

For those of you who want to send a delicious delicacy to the one you love on Valentine's Day there are some great mail order options. Whether you like cookies or chocolates there is something for everyone.

We write about Dean & Deluca a lot here on Luxist in part because they consistently offer quality products for the discerning gourmand from various manufacturers around the world. Their offerings for Valentine's Day are no exception:

From Valerie Confections an artisinal confectioner in Los Angeles, come chocolates designated as Pour Elle and Pour Homme. Each box contains 3 large chocolate hearts and 8 small hearts with the "For Her" gift box having traces of edible rose petals and the "For Him" gift box is completed with caramel and toffee filled chocolates. Each set of 11 pieces retails for $30.00 a box.
Chocolat Moderne in New York city is represented with a red box filled with 12 hand painted chocolate hearts. The $36.00 box contains two each of six different flavors.
For those who like their sweets from France, the Pyramide des Tropiques from Francois Pralus, is a great choice for serious chocolate lovers who are more interested in the chocolate itself than cute Valentine wrapping. A stack of 10 individual bars each made with beans from a different part of the world and a 75% cocoa content for $12.00.
Eleni's specializes in selling hand iced cookies. There is an adorable box of pink and purple XO shaped cookies 18 for $50.00 If you go to Eleni's web-site there are just under 20 different designs from which you can pick the perfect option for your sweetie.

All of these purveyors have their own web-sites and it is up to you to decide whether you'd like to comparison shop quickly through Dean & Deluca or take your time and order individually from the different stores. Either way you will come away "smelling like roses" but "tasting like chocolate" a perfect combination for Valentine's Day.

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Readers' Choice Awards for Best in Sweets

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

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Is there a maker of fine chocolate candy that makes your mouth water just thinking about it? Who makes the most sumptuous chocolate truffle you've ever eaten? Which bakery makes the most magnificent cupcakes in the world? Can you recommend a bakery that makes cakes that are worth telling the world about? Which bakery makes the best cookies? If you know where to find the best chocolate, truffles, cupcakes, cakes and cookies, we want to hear from you!

The Luxist Readers' Choice Awards for Best in Sweets will be awarded based on your nominations and voting. We're currently seeking nominations for the best-of-breed in the following categories:

Best Chocolate Bar
Best Chocolate Candy
Best Cupcake
Best Cake
Best Cookie

One nomination per category, please. Submissions can be filed until February 15, 2010. Winners will be announced on March 1, 2010.

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Readers' Choice Awards for Best in Sweets

by Carrie Coolidge (RSS feed) —

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Is there a maker of fine chocolate candy that makes your mouth water just thinking about it? Who makes the most sumptuous chocolate truffle you've ever had? Which bakery makes the most magnificent cupcakes in the world? Can you recommend a bakery that makes cakes that are worth telling the world about? Which bakery makes the best cookies? If you know where to find the best chocolate, truffles, cupcakes, cakes and cookies, we want to hear from you!

The Luxist Readers' Choice Awards for Best in Sweets will be awarded based on your nominations and voting. We're currently seeking nominations for the best-of-breed in the following categories:

Best Chocolate Bar
Best Chocolate Candy
Best Cupcake
Best Cake
Best Cookie

One nomination per category, please. Submissions can be filed until February 15, 2010.

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Options For Ordering Holiday Cookies Online

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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If you are too busy to bake your own cookies this holiday season, fear not, the internet is ready to come to your rescue. There are a variety of online options, from ones that could easily pass for your own homemade creations to beautifully decorated confections like the ones above from Beau-coup, sugar cookies hand decorated and sprinkled with tiny sugar crystals. Each large cookie (4"L x 3"W) costs $3.50 and comes in its own cellophane bag with a matching ribbon.Check out the gallery below for Moravian Spice cookies, snickerdoodles and more.

Gallery: Ten Christmas Cookie Options

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Moravian Spice Cookies from Williams-Sonoma

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Great Places To Order Holiday Cookies Online

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Sure, you could bake, but in this rushed holiday season you might not have time. If you aren't feeling culinary inspiration this season there are a variety of great places to order online. We've rounded up ten top choices from small Etsy boutiques to the bigger cookie empires offering options for every budget.

Dean & DeLuca is offering this box from Amy's Cookies. The assortment includes four raspberry and four apricot thumbprints, eight chocolate stars, four pecan butter balls, four each of raspberry and apricot star window cookies, four Viennese crescents, five gingerbread girls and five gingerbread boys. Packaged in a white tin and tied with a red ribbon, it sells for $50.

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Yoku Moku Cigares

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

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Yoku Moku Cigares are some of the finest butter cookies that you can find. The ultra-thin and crepe-like, the delicate cookies are rolled up into cigar shapes and individually wrapped, with the logo on their packaging centered like the ring on a real cigar. The purpose of the shape is to provide some support for a very delicate cookie and to make sure that you get some crunch when biting into it, before the cookie melts away in your mouth into a rush of butter and vanilla flavor. A box is only $22 and contains 20 cookies, but even though they can be stored for several months, it is a challenge to make them last a week.

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Mother's Day Cookies

by Trey Evans (RSS feed) —

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I covered Cheryl & Co.'s Saint Patrick's Day cookies back in March, and now that there's another holiday coming up, they've some more specialty cookies. The gift box pictured left is decorated with a half dozen silk roses, but doesn't have any of the frosted cookies. I can't bash the non-frosted treats because I haven't had them, but I can't imagine that they're better than their extra sugary counterparts. Any mother would love cookies, unless of course, she's diabetic. Prices range from $19.95 (pictured) to $94.95 for 100 frosted heart-shaped cookies.

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Black and Whites from Dean and Deluca

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High on the list of things missed most by New Yorkers when they take up residence in another state is the Black and White Cookie. The cake-like consistency of the cookie and the smooth, sweet chocolate and vanilla icing combine to make one of the ultimate treats. As a gift for your favorite ex-New Yorker, or perhaps for yourself, consider getting a box of Dean & DeLuca's Black and Whites. Black and Whites tend to be huge, since New Yorker's like things big, but the Dean and Deluca cookies are normal sized and packed in a box that fits two dozen. The cookies are a perfect version of the New York classic - tasty as well as beautiful to look at. If you can't eat them all at once, they freeze beautifully, but if you invite a friend over to share them, you might not have any leftover. Price: $30.

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Cheryl & Co St. Patty's Cookies

by Trey Evans (RSS feed) —

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With St. Patrick's day coming up and all, now would be a good time to tie in my love of cookies and luxury. My roommate received some Cheryl&Co. Valentine's cookies last month, and now the cookie maker has St. Patty's cookies available from the site. They're a touch on the expensive side at over a buck a treat, but they're some of the best cookies I've ever eaten. Oh, and don't bother with the not-frosted ones, you'll just be pissed that they're taking up valuable space that could have been used for more frosted cookies.

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Eleni's Oscar-Themed Cookies

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Throwing an Oscar party? Eleni's cookies, a New York bakery does a whole series of Oscar-themed cookies each year. There is the Best Picture series with little cowboy boots (Brokeback Mountain), cars (Crash), Olympic rings (Munich), TVs (Good Night and Good Luck) and books (Capote). Even more adorable are the cookies with the faces of the nominees for Best Actors and Actresses. The nominee sets sells for $58.50 each and include three sets of nominees and a set of envelope cookies. I can't even bear to chomp the head of a chocolate Easter bunny, I'm not sure I could bite into the charming face of Heath Ledger.

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