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New Yorkers have plenty of holiday loyalties—parades, parade-avoiding, complaining about holiday subway service—but one constant is Breads Bakery. The local favorite is introducing two new seasonal pies to its holiday line-up and they’re exactly what you’d expect from the empire behind some of the city's best rugelach, rye and a certain famously glossy babka.
This year’s new additions include a blueberry pie and cherry cheesecake option, both limited-run, holiday-only creations. The cherry cheesecake leans into diner nostalgia, blending a creamy cheesecake base with a ruby-red swirl of fruit, while the blueberry pie is sure to be a straight-up crowd-pleaser, topped with a classic oat streusel. And while it’s not a new addition, skipping the babka pie would be a rookie mistake: it’s basically the bakery’s cult-favorite chocolate babka reimagined as a holiday showstopper. (Plus, it's also available for nationwide shipping if you're spending your Thanksgiving in Minneapolis, rather than Manhattan.)
If you want to round out the table while you’re at it, the shop’s full Thanksgiving lineup is back, stacked and available for pre-order. Options include pumpkin pie, apple crumb pie, pecan pie, a savory squash tart and other Turkey Day essentials like stuffing mix, cranberry sauce and dinner-roll trios in flavors like corn and cheddar, rustic sweet potato and gruyere and cranberry gouda.
All items are baked on-site, a point of pride for Breads’ co-founder, Uri Scheft, who helped bring back the tradition of baking everything in Manhattan rather than shipping dough to a remote facility. His Scandinavian-Israeli-French mash-up still defines the menu today and these new pies feel like a very Breads way to do Thanksgiving: a little classic, a little global and very much for New Yorkers who treat dessert like a competitive sport.