Walking around in the village yesterday, we (my parent's and I) wandered into our favorite pastry shop in all of Manhattan, Rocco's. Here you can find a vast varieties of Italian cookies, cakes, and pastries; all of which are done artfully well. Rocco's signature dessert that he has in his shop is his cannoli that he makes completely from scratch. All of the shells he makes on his own as well as the cream and he only stuffs them when they're ordered so everything stays fresh. This quality control goes on with all of the pastries and they are jam-packed with flavor and aren't too sugary or sweet. JUST RIGHT!
I rarely get a chance to get to the village, so it's always a treat to get down to Rocco's and order my favorite: the tri-color cookies. These aren't like the rainbow cookies that you find in the supermarket in the plastic container, they are all hand baked and each layer has a generous helping of raspberry jelly. The cake itself is done wonderfully as he does with everything in his shop making for something perfect and you're always sad when you're done with them.
Below is a picture from them from a few years ago:
Keep in mind, they've evolved over the past years getting bigger and better, however, these were still far above par many years ago. I was still eating them back then.
Anyway, I went into the shop the other day and it was the afternoon so we only had an hour on the meter and we just ate lunch and left a good 10 minutes to go to Rocco's. We usually go there and sit down, however we just had to order and take out. It had been so long since I've had these (a month or two...) and I felt like I couldn't live with only a few. I ordered ten in a box to take home. I have to say that these cookies get bigger and bigger each time I have them and need to use a fork to eat one.
Believe me, ten was too much for one day though I enjoyed 8 and saved 2 for breakfast today, which gave me a good reason to get up early. The real reason to get up was not because I was happy about getting them, though I wanted to get at them before anyone else in the house could. I was happy that I could save them and have a cup of Aldo's coffee at the same time! The perfect breakfast for me!
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