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'Tis the Season: We Want to Know Your Favorite Holiday Sweet : Slideshow

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Hungarian Shortbread.
Photo by Allison Thomas
Hungarian Shortbread.

Get the recipe here.

Here, a shot of Brandy Snaps made with Martha Stewart's recipe.
Joy Wang/WNYC
Here, a shot of Brandy Snaps made with Martha Stewart's recipe.

The recipe can be found here.

Dattelkonfekt (Date confections). The recipe comes from WQXR Music Host Naomi Lewin's grandmother.
Naomi Lewin
Dattelkonfekt (Date confections). The recipe comes from WQXR Music Host Naomi Lewin's grandmother.

Get the recipe here.

Customers head to Poseidon Bakery in Hell's Kitchen year-round for Greek pastries. But during the holidays, a favorite is kourambiedes -- almond sugary cookies with spice cloves in their centers.
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Customers head to Poseidon Bakery in Hell's Kitchen year-round for Greek pastries. But during the holidays, a favorite is kourambiedes -- almond sugary cookies with spice cloves in their centers.
Veniero's at 342 E. 11th Street (between First and Second Avenues) has been in the business of making pastries, cookies and cakes since 1894.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
Veniero's at 342 E. 11th Street (between First and Second Avenues) has been in the business of making pastries, cookies and cakes since 1894.
The pasticceria makes traditional Italian sweets like this pignolata, a Sicilian and Calabrian sweet covered in chocolate or lemon flavoured syrup or icing, this time of year.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
The pasticceria makes traditional Italian sweets like this pignolata, a Sicilian and Calabrian sweet covered in chocolate or lemon flavoured syrup or icing, this time of year.
Here, a piece of torrone messinesi (almonds, honey, sugar, cinnamon and orange pieces dipped in chocolate) sits atop colorful butter ladyfingers filled with raspberry jam and dipped in chocolate.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
Here, a piece of torrone messinesi (almonds, honey, sugar, cinnamon and orange pieces dipped in chocolate) sits atop colorful butter ladyfingers filled with raspberry jam and dipped in chocolate.
Moishe's Bake Shop in the East Village makes jelly donuts for Hanukkah. Find the bakery at 115 Second Ave. between Sixth and Seventh Streets.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
Moishe's Bake Shop in the East Village makes jelly donuts for Hanukkah. Find the bakery at 115 Second Ave. between Sixth and Seventh Streets.
Moishe's also sells other cookies like hamentachen (the traditional pastry for Purim) and rugelach, which, for some are also popular Hanukkah fare.
Abbie Fentress Swanson
Moishe's also sells other cookies like hamentachen (the traditional pastry for Purim) and rugelach, which, for some are also popular Hanukkah fare.
Although Jacques Torres at 350 Hudson St. specializes in chocolate, the pastry chef also sells gingerbread during the holiday season.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
Although Jacques Torres at 350 Hudson St. specializes in chocolate, the pastry chef also sells gingerbread during the holiday season.


Taste one of the holiday season's ubiquitous gingerbread men at Out of the Kitchen at 420 Hudson Street in the West Village.
Abbie Fentress Swanson/WNYC
Taste one of the holiday season's ubiquitous gingerbread men at Out of the Kitchen at 420 Hudson Street in the West Village.

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