27 Spots In NYC Guaranteed To Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

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1. Momofuku Milk Bar

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Location: Various locations around the city.

Why it's cool: Their signature ice cream flavor tastes exactly like the milk from your cereal bowl. Mix it with their Chocolate-covered Pretzel flavor for the saltiest-sweet surprise!

2. Broken Coconut

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Location: NOHO

Why It's Cool: The entire restaurant is beach-themed and their avocado toast is AH-MAZING.

3. Wafels & Dinges

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Location: Various locations around the city.

Why It's Cool: Wafels & Dinges serves only the most delish and authentic Belgian wafels from their food trucks parked all around Manhattan. Wafels and a quirky yellow truck? Count me in.

4. Sweets by CHLOE.

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Location: West Village

Why It's Cool: Sweets is actually an extension of vegan eatery by CHLOE. The menu is entirely plant-based and made in-store daily. The best part is, you can't even taste that it's healthy!

5. Cha Cha Matcha

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Location: Nolita

Why It's Cool: In case the name didn't give you a hint, this shop's entire menu revolves around matcha. Soft serve, lattes, doughnuts — you name it, and they've got it.

6. Chloe's Fruit

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Location: Union Square

Why It's Cool: Chloe's Fruit is totally vegan. Their soft serve is made from only three ingredients (fruit, water, a touch of cane sugar).

7. Eggloo

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Location: Chinatown

Why It's Cool: In addition to their waffle cone, Eggloo offers unlimited toppings on their ice cream.

8. Van Leeuwen

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Location: Various locations around the city.

Why It's Cool: Two of their newest specials are totally out of this world. Black Matter is a charcoal-colored ice cream that tastes just like honeycomb and Planet Earth is an almond flavored treat colored with matcha and spirulina. Both flavors, among many more, are vegan-friendly!

9. Tispy Scoop

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Location: Kips Bay

Why It's Cool: Tipsy Scoop infuses their ice cream with alcohol creating fun combinations like Raspberry Limoncello Sorbet and Vanilla Bean Bourbon.

10. Taiyaki

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Location: Chinatown

Why It's Cool: All of Tayaiki's ice cream is served inside a fish shaped waffle cone.

11. Holey Cream

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Location: Hell's Kitchen

Why It's Cool: Holey Cream makes their ice cream sandwiches with doughnuts and smothers them with the toppings of your choosing.

12. Spot Dessert Bar

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Location: East Village

Why It's Cool: In addition to their macarons and cookies, Spot lets customers dine in for dessert tapas with items from all across the world.

13. Cool Mess

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Location: Upper East Side

Why It's Cool: Each table has an ice cream making machine where you can customize your own favorite flavor.

14. Milk & Cream Cereal Bar

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Location: Lower East Side

Why It's Cool: The menu features 18 different kinds of cereals to blend with your ice cream. And if you're not big on frozen treats, they will even make you your own personalized bowl of cereal.

15. Donut Pub

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Location: Chelsea

Why It's Cool: This shop sells old school doughnuts that your grandparents will remember. They're open 24 hours, too!

16. Squish Marshmallows

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Location: East Village

Why It's Cool: All of Squish's marshmallows are homemade in-store and you can get them roasted right in front of you. Who needs a campfire?

17. Loco Coco

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Location: Upper East Side

Why It's Cool: Loco Coco's bowls are totally vegan and packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and sweet superfoods guaranteed to put you in a great mood.

18. DŌ

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Location: West Village

Why It's Cool: DŌ's entire schtick is that they sell edible cookie dough. They sell vegan and gluten-free flavors, too.

19. ChikaLicious Dessert Bar

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Location: East Village

Why It's Cool: One of the coolest additions to the menu is their s'mores ice cream in a churro cone. I promise you will not find this anywhere else in New York City.

20. Big Gay Ice Cream

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Location: East Village, West Village, and Seaport

Why It's Cool: The title of the ice cream shop has a double meaning. It represents the sexual orientation of the two owners and happy. Founder David Quint says "If I weren't gay, I wouldn't call it the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. And if I weren't happy, I wouldn't have the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. It would just be the big crabby ice cream truck."

21. Milk & Cookies Bakery

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Location: Greenwich Village

Why It's Cool: Their ice cream sandwiches are jam-packed with so much ice cream, they practically explode.

22. Ice and Vice

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Location: Lower East Side and Times Square

Why It's Cool: This ice cream shop is totally experimental with flavors like Movie Night 2 (Buttered popcorn, malted chocolate, raisin caramel) and Basic B (Mexican Vanilla, Black Lava Sea Salt).

23. Schmackery's

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Location: Times Square

Why It's Cool: Schmakery's offers a delivery option where you can ship local, nationwide, or to your favorite Broadway stars before their performance!

24. Magnolia Bakery

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Location: Various locations around the city.

Why It's Cool: Every month Magnolia Bakery releases a Cupcake Calendar full of signature flavors for every day of the week.

25. Levain Bakery

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Location: Upper West Side and Harlem

Why It's Cool: These cookies are MASSIVE. And they actually taste awesome too.

26. Economy Candy

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Location: Lower East Side

Why It's Cool: This candy store has literally every type of candy you can think of. It's the perfect adventure if you have a mighty sweet tooth (like me) or if you're super into bargains (also me). They even sell five pound bags of M&M's sorted by color.

27. Baked by Melissa

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Location: Various locations around the city.

Why It's Cool: Baked by Melissa makes all of your favorite flavored cupcakes... in bite-sized form! These little cupcakes are no bigger than a quarter, but will no doubt leave you satisfied.

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