Something Sweet

This place is closed now, but this review is for a past visit.
One beautiful afternoon following a delicious brunch, my friend and I decided to hit a little bakery in the East Village aptly named «Something Sweet». We were in the mood for, well, something sweet. Most of the baked goods looked delicious. The cupcakes? Not so much. They just did not like look right, but I had to take the risk. I checked out the cupcakes and they were light brown. Bad news bearcats. I knew by the color that the cupcakes were overbaked. Ick. After very little pondering (there weren’t many options), I chose the vanilla cupcakes with vanilla icing. Besides the fact that the cake was dry and indeed overbaked, the icing made the cupcake even worse. There is a huge difference between icing and frosting even though sometimes people use the two interchangeably. Icing is stiff and hard, whereas frosting is usually softer and creamier. For example, when icing dries and you were to pick at it, your finger would still be clean. With frosting it is usually the opposite. I do not approve of icing on cupcakes. Icing is meant for decorating cookies. Anyway, the cupcake was $ 1.50– cheap, but I’d rather shell out more money for a cupcake with real frosting. Next time I want something sweet, I’ll go somewhere else.

I got the chocolate cake and a double espresso here after a delicious tapas meal down the street. The cake was a solid ⁸⁄₁₀ and the espresso was delicious.
Their prices were a little outrageous I thought, but this is lower Manhattan so I am sure their rent is exorbitant. I think I paid 5.25 for a small slice of cake and 2.-something for the double espresso. Not going to break the bank, but just a note not to get too carried away too often.
The staff was very friendly and allowed us all to hang out here for quite some time while we recuperated from a massive influx of calories and talked high hopes of working out the next day to rid ourselves of said calories… Which of course none of us actually did. Obesity for the win!
Nice place, and they have a good amount of seating which is somewhat rare for a bakery in this part of town. Throw in the friendly waitresses and staff, and it’s a good spot.

This is a great place – I recommend the apple turnovers (and apple tarts if they are out).

I really like this adorable bakery in the East Village. It’s small and they don’t have a huge selection of pastries, but it has an Old World charm that is harder and harder to find in New York these days. The sugar cookies are good, light and not too sweet. And the ladies behind the counter are very nice.
Next time I’ll try the truffle buttons.

Walking around East Village, we stumbled upon this cute bakery.
The lady behind the counter is kind. I believe she is the owner. There is no seating available in here. Just grab your goodies to go.
They start to run out of things later in the day, so if you want a wider selection, go early. We decided to try a few cookies (about 6). The total came to about $ 4.50. Not bad. They were tasty, not too sweet, and light.
The owner also gave us a complimentary cookie right before we left. Something Sweet is surely sweet.

Something Sweet is dear to me.
the ladies who run it are lovely and the frosted cookies are my favorite thing around. the vanilla layer cake is probably the biggest hit ive ever had at a dinner party, and their tarts are the best you’ll find in the East Village or Lower East side.
i love this place. 4 stars for the selection – really liike a homemade bakery made by just a few people, so sometimes it’s slim pickings. five stars for everything else. This is a family run establishment and i’ve lived in this neighborhood for over a decade with them. The ladies who run it are as sweet as their food.

This place is the source of the best apple turnovers in NYC, and possibly the world. They also get sold to you by a super-​sweet proprietor… she must be what the name refers to! Actually, I preferred the former name of this place: Black Forest Bakery. But the pastries are still the same. And they’re way better than those at Veniero’s around the corner. Only problem is, you can’t sit down here — it’s take-​away only. And they often run out of turnovers before the end of the day.
This is one of the places I miss most since moving away from the neighborhood.

I like it! I like it alot. I think I dismissed this bnakery, a few times. But, it’s really great. Around the corner from the once great, (now overrated Verino’s), Something Sweet occupies a small corner storefront.. I went here to try the chocolate banana, that is mentioned in so many other reviews. IT was really fu**ing good. In addition, to the chocolate, there is also a cookie inside. It’s a filling dessert, for only $ 2.00.
Also mentioned in a lot of reviews are the chocolate buttons. Very Small, and Very Good.
The women who run this little bakery, are always very nice. If I buy a single button or a larger order, they are always kind. I had to call the bakery one morning with a few questions, and gain they were really nice.
It is rare that I meet nice business owners or people in NYC. So, when I do come across people as nice as this duo, I am almost giddy about it.

How silly of me to think something sweet would be anything other than really sweet. All I got were 2 fruit tarts. I typed into Google what are the best fruit tarts in NYC. This came up. They were mostly out and I guess I got stuck with what they had left. I got a chocolate truffle and raspberry fruit tart and a cherry tart. The cherry tart was not tart at all but overly sweet. It had crumbs on top and I am not a fan of crumbs but it didn’t look like too many but the crumbs on top tasted like fried sugar. The chocolate raspberry tart tasted like a big bitter Oreo cookie gone bad. I did not taste any fruit at all and the chocolate was hard not soft so I didn’t taste any truffle either.
I am sure their other pastries were good and maybe the better fruit tarts sold out earlier. But it was around 3 PM not too late. But not too early.
What I had was not to my liking. Maybe I will try some of their other pastries at another time.

Adorable corner sweets shop around the corner from the more well known Venieros. Some stuff is really good, and some is kind of a wash, but the TRUFFLE BUTTONS are CRACK.
I am not liable for your new Fat Kid Addiction.

I was on a mission to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie once and stumbled across Something Sweet. The cookie had a good buttery flavor and nice balance of sweetness along with the chocolate chips. Unfortunately I am a chewy cookie type of gal and the crunchy texture really disappointed me. I have not tried other baked goods here yet. Probably because Veniero’s is right around the corner.
The lady behind the counter is really nice though and the place seems really gourmet. I’ve asked if they do cake catering and the owner kindly filled me in with some details. The selection is pretty small. The price is not bad and affordable.

Hmmm… I’m not sure what I missed but my experience at this cute little bakery was anything but stellar.
The macaroons were decent, nothing to rave about even for the $ 1 price tag, several of the other cookies I tried were extremely dried out and they were even passing off those perfectly circular soft sugar cookies with different colored frosting and sprinkles from the market (which, when you’re in the mood are frickin fantastic) as their own… they were remarkably stale as well. The truffle button was good but not memorable and the lintzer cookie (one of my faves) was a sad excuse for a sweet confection.
Sadly, I will cross this off my list of neighborhood bakeries, but luckily for me, Veniero’s (which I’ve been waiting to try is just down the block) as is Birdbath.

Came here to get my macaron fix (well I happen to be in the area)! A modest but cute little pastry shop. We tried all four flourless macarons for a buck a piece (lemon, raspberry, mocha, and vanilla). The raspberry and mocha were my favorites.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to go there for a macaron, but I frequent LES so often that I can see myself stopping by Something Sweet for something more (har har…)

Thanks Unilocalers for giving me a chance to try their Chocolate Covered Banana ($ 2.50).
I had an errand in the East Village, and did a little search on any good sweets in the neighborhood on Unilocal.I saw Unilocalers raving about this banana sweets and could not help myself trying one immediately as a banana lover.
This place is actually located right on the corner of the famed pastry shop, Veniero’s! I have been there many times but did not notice this shop til today… How did I miss it?! It’s a shame.
Something Sweet is a cute little shop with a good variety of pastries, ran by a friendly old lady. I bought the banana and two macaroons. This nice old lady gave me another one for free for tomorrow being Valentine’s Day. So sweet. She also gave a chocolate covered cookie to a lady who broke down a $ 50 bill that I paid to make some change.
The banana treat is tasty. Half-​split banana on a bed of graham cookie with thick cover of chocolate! What a good combination. It can’t go wrong. Yumm… I enjoyed every bite of this sweets.
I was gonna stop by at Veniero’s to try something that I haven’t tried yet, HOWEVER the space was filled with a crazy number of people that lost my appetite. I was just overwhelmed by the sight bc I was just at the little store with a few local regular customers where you can actually have a little conversation in a cozy atmosphere. I will come back to Something Sweet for their sweets and local feeling.

Great for macaroon fix!
Recommended to us while we were on a food tour of the east village, I had an immediate macaroon craving. At $ 1 a pop, these puppies aren’t cheap. BUT, you will not be dissapointed.
The other thing that’s a must-​try is the truffle button. I didn’t have it, but the look on my friend’s face was priceless and made me regret not fighting him for the last bite.

Tonight was my second visit to Something Sweet. The name is ingenious because as I was studying, I was indeed craving for something sweet.
I’ve tried the Apple Tart, Chocolate Truffle with Coconut and the Truffle Buttons.
1) Apple Tart — highly recommended if you like fruit and pastry. I liked the Apples, just not the pastry haha
2) Chocolate Truffle w/​Coconut — I’m not sure what each layer consisted of but this is a must for coconut lovers (see uploaded photo)
3) The Truffle Buttons were soft to the bite and rich to the tastebuds. Highly recommended by Unilocalers and now highly recommended by me! (see uploaded photo)
I can’t comment on the lady who runs the place (see other reviews about grouchy lady) but she confirms that the store has been around for about 36 years! which is mind boggling.
TIP: If you’re a girl, you’ll get the hookups. I came here with the same friends on both occasions and my female classmate was treated better than Dylan and I. She received a free truffle button and vanilla cupcake. If you’re a guy, make sure you bring a cute girl so you can get some free treats. This is main reason why I can’t give Something Sweet a full fiver: p

This unglamorous pastry shop across the street from the flashy Roberto’s manages to hold its own because it doesn’t pretend to be anything but what it is: a simple, down to earth, and yes, unglamorous, pastry shop.
My senses have become too accustomed to the food porn status that most dessert shops strive towards, so much that I subconsciously shunned these drab-​looking pastries. It was only on a whim that I entered the shop and discovered an item that I never pass up: Macarons.
I wasn’t expecting much. $ 1 each, and only four flavors: lemon, raspberry, mocha, and vanilla. I tried the mocha as I left the shop… and headed straight back in to talk to the owner.
I’ve been on a macaron hunt over NYC for awhile now. After multiple let-​downs at highly praised macaron specialty shops, my hopes were shot. Were all macarons doomed to be overly sweet, overly crispy, or just overpriced? Not anymore.
I bit into a small macaron enriched with a distinct caffeine flavor, with a nice chewy cake and a smooth creamy mousse-​like filling that didn’t steal the show. While it still wasn’t the «perfect» macaron, per se, it still was strides above some places that I’ve trekked for all over NYC.
That’ll teach me to judge a pastry shop by its appearance. Can I have a macaron for getting to the moral of the story?

Knowing that homey little pastry shops like Something Sweet still exist makes my heart race.
I always buy the glorious chocolate orange truffle. Also, don’t overlook the mango mousse cake, which will linger in your mouth like a sweet dream and the lemon pie, with its precious meringue crown.

Tonight I was greeted by a less awesome counter worker, but was still delighted by the same beautiful selection of pastries.
I zeroed in on a brick-​like chocolate structure. This turned out to be what was called «A Mounds Bar on Steroids,» and indeed it was.
Picture two coconut «patties» sandwiching chocolatre truffle filling. The entire masterpiece is enrobed in so-dark-it’s-black chocolate, and sprinkled with toasted coconut. This is a singular treat that outwits the likes of macaroons and Bounty Bars everywhere.
A small, seasonal plum tart proved to be equally as powerful both in presentation and in taste. With a custard filling as opposed to plain fruit or mere pastry cream, it rose above the fruit tart status, and won my heart.

«Chocolate-​coated bananas on a graham-​like cookie for $ 2.»
If your eyes didn’t light up from reading that. you don’t deserve it! I stumbled in here while looking for a place to have dinner… my eyes settled upon the chocolate coated banana. I had to have it… The grumpy lady put it in a bag. only to have me pull it right out 20 seconds later. After taking one bite, I cursed myself for missing out on this fine specimen for the past 24 years. It was demolished in less than 3 minutes.
a-​w-​e-​s-​o-​m-​e.