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Michelle Obama Cupcakes or Cardi B Carrot Cakes? You Can Get ‘Em Both at I.M. Pastry Studio

Tiffany Washington and Tamika Young, owners of I.M. Pastry Studio. (Photo courtesy of I.M. Pastry Studio)

A new boozy bakery just moved into the Lower East Side. The shop, I.M. Pastry Studio, relocated from its large space in Prospect Lefferts Gardens to a smaller stall in the lengthy Essex Street Market.

The in-store menu is loaded with treats named after boss ladies like Michelle Obama, Rihanna, and Oprah, which owner Tiffany Washington says is her favorite cupcake– it’s banana pudding flavored. When deciding between “lit” Bailey’s-infused cupcakes named after Mariah or Cardi B carrot cakes, customers often embrace Cardi B’s “I can get ’em both, I don’t wanna choose” sentiments, buying several at a time. 

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Martha’s Country Bakery Brings Homemade Sweetness To Williamsburg

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Martha’s Country Bakery, a local Queens-based baked goods store and coffee shop with locations in Astoria, Bayside, and Forest Hills, has just opened their first Brooklyn location on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. According to the shop’s Facebook page, they opened their doors just yesterday, on October 3. That’s right—while you were reveling in the same Mean Girls quote for yet another year, you could have been shoveling in some serious chocolate mousse cake.

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Jennifer Esposito On Her Bakery, Her New Book, and Her Return(?) to Acting

Screen Shot 2014-05-05 at 1.14.41 PMActress and Bensonhurt native Jennifer Esposito’s first apartment was in the East Village when she was 18. A little more than a year ago, the former Blue Bloods star, now 41, returned to the neighborhood to open Jennifer’s Way, a haven for those suffering from food allergies. The catalyst for the bakery was her 2009 diagnosis with Celiac Disease, an autoimmune illness that prevents sufferers from properly digesting gluten. Last month, the bakery (which she runs with new fiancé Louis Dowler) opened a 13,000 square-foot production facility in Queens, and Esposito took her activism a step further, authoring Jennifer’s Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease–What Doctors Don’t Tell You and How You Can Learn to Live Again. Before her appearance tonight at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca, she spoke with B+B.
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