HOLIDAY TREATS
Celebrate the sweetest time of the year with festive cookies, ice cream and more.
Also see spots for festive meals and sweet celebrations plus our complete NYC holiday guide and kid-friendly food guide (with lots of bakeries & chocolate).
Holiday Doughnuts
Special holiday doughnuts at legendary Doughnut Plant include a fluffy Christmas tree shaped yeast doughnut with a fresh mint glaze on the outside and chocolate mint pudding on the inside, a Gingerdough Man cake doughnut, Marzipan Star, Coconut Snowman and a pretty Red Velvet.
At Doughnut Plant locations in the Lower East Side Grand Central, Long Island City, Williamsburg and downtown Brooklyn.
Dark Chocolate Peppermint at Levain
Mis and match with the the original flavors – Two Chip Chocolate Chip, Walnut Chocolate Chip, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip & Oatmeal Raisin (plus a gluten-free chocolate chip option). Other options include sour cream coffee cake, brioches, whole wheat walnut raisin rolls are also yummy (and a little healthier) plus hot chocolate and coffee.
Outposts also in Harlem, the UES, NoHo and Williamsburg.
Daily 7 am – 9 pm
Holidays at Eat Pretty
Christmas goes pink at this adorable coffee shop/restaurant with pretty florals, giant pink teddy bears and stuffed grinches and other festive decor indoors and out. The croissants, eggs, paninis, tacos coffee and more are good, but the seasonal treats are the main draw – reindeer Mini Cupcakes, cure sugar cookies, Toasted Marshmallow Hot Coco, Eggnog latte , Peppermint mocha, Nutella latte and Gingerbread latte and over-the-top Pretty Hot Cocoas topped with pink whip cream and a gingerbread cookie.
Only two tables indoors with a few more on the sidewalk.
Mon-Sat 7:30 am – 7 pm
Sunday 8:00 am – 5 pm
The Grinch & The Rudolph at Mister Dips
Mister Dips features two festive frozen treats in December. The Grinch soft serve cone comes with eggnog custard, holiday sprinkles and wintergreen dip; The Rudolph milkshake has candy cake ice cream and white chocolate.
Also get inventive burgers and fries at this Seaport outpost of a quirky Williamsburg fave.
See our guide to the happening, festively-decorated Seaport District.
Mon-Sun 11:30 am-10 pm
Jacques Torres Holiday Chocolate
Candy Cane Hot Chocolate Bombs, Chocolate Chip Cookies with Crushed Candy Cane, chocolate Santa and snowmen and high-quality Hanukkah gelt – all made with high-quality chocolate – join the famous classic or spicy ‘Wicked’ hot cocoas and, buttery chocolate chip cookies, truffles and more giftable chocolate at the original shop of Jacques Torres (aka Mr. Chocolate), French chef turned celebrity New Yorker and reality TV star (‘Nailed It’). The 60% baking discs are perfect for at home baking (or snacking).
Also in Grand Central Terminal.
Monday – Friday 12 pm–6:30 pm
Saturday – Sunday 10 am–7 pm