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  1. Photograph: Jonathan Aprea
    Photograph: Jonathan Aprea

    Best cookies: Flourless chocolate cookies from Dominique Ansel Bakery

  2. Photograph: Krista Schlueter
    Photograph: Krista Schlueter

    Best cookies: Chocolate-chip cookies from Baconery

  3. Photograph: Jonathan Aprea
    Photograph: Jonathan Aprea

    Best cookies: Key-lime pie cookies from Schmackary’s

  4. Photograph: Jonathan Aprea
    Photograph: Jonathan Aprea

    Best cookies: Downtown Cookie Co. funfetti cookies from Everyman Espresso

  5. Photograph: Jessica Lin
    Photograph: Jessica Lin

    Best cookies: Peanut butter cookies from Ovenly

  6. Photograph: Marielle Solan
    Photograph: Marielle Solan

    Best cookies: Oatmeal raisin cookies from Kahve

  7. Photograph: Jessica Lin
    Photograph: Jessica Lin

    Best cookies: Diamond chocolate-chip shortbreads at Bien Cuit

  8. Photograph: Jessica Lin
    Photograph: Jessica Lin

    Best cookies: Palmiers from Colson Patisserie

  9. Photograph: Melissa SInclair
    Photograph: Melissa SInclair

    Best cookies: Rugalach from Moishe’s Bake Shop

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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  • Hell's Kitchen
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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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  • Coffee shops
  • East Village
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The nostalgic Pillsbury cake mix gets an upgrade in these hefty multicolor discs (dozen $24). Downtown Cookie Co. owner Dan Guerrera blasts his sugar-cookie dough with enough rainbow jimmies to make the annual Times Square New Year’s glitter bomb seem weak. Get them at Everyman Espresso, or order online at downtowncookieco.com.

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Rugalach from Moishe’s Bake Shop
Photograph: Melissa SInclair

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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