Photograph: Jonathan Aprea
Photograph: Jonathan Aprea

Best cookies: Flourless chocolate cookies from Dominique Ansel Bakery

From chocolate chip to peanut butter, the best cookies in New York City 2012

These colorful cookies, from celebrated New York bakeries, will quiet your most powerful cravings for butter and sugar.

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Whether your vice is flaky butter cookies, crisp sugar cookies, decadent chocolate or gooey chocolate chip, we’ve found a cookie that will deliver surefire sweet-tooth pleasure. We turned to a few of our favorite New York bakeries to suss out their most satisfying treats, then whittled down our findings to this list of New York’s best cookies. Did we miss your favorite cookie? Join the conversation in the comments.

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In a quest to re-create the summery pie in cookie form, owner Zachary Schmahl tinkered with lime oil and zest, adding the citrus to a cookie base enhanced with chopped pistachios, graham cracker crumbs and white-chocolate chunks. Lime-infused buttercream frosting and more graham crumbs festoon the top ($2.75 for one).
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Rugalach from Moishe’s Bake Shop

Among the many sweets available at this long-standing East Village bakery, these rolled kosher biscuits ($14 per pound) stand out for their tender, buttery dough. Ask for a petite crescent in each of the three flavors: sour cream, raspberry and chocolate.
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