Cookie Road

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Husband-wife bakers and artists Aneta and Jerzy Szot create hand-painted cookies in the likeness of dresses, taxicabs, Mets jerseys, Michael Jackson, and more from their petite specialty shop. They opened the bakery in June 2009, filling a space adjacent to their house formerly belonging to Greenpoint Savings Bank. Jerzy painted the bright-red sign out front in pears, penguins, and Charlie Chaplins, and Aneta bakes all the cookies herself. Seasonal designs are especially popular (like realistic Statue of Liberty�shaped cookies for the Fourth of July), as are screen-printed and sugar-painted celebrity cookies resembling Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minnelli, and the Beatles. The bakeshop also offers non-painted cookies, like Rocky Road and English toffee, as well as mini-lemon cheesecakes, key lime tarts, hazelnut orange biscotti, almond macaroons, and brownies�all artfully presented on Andy Warhol�inspired dishes. Beverages are equally gourmet, including Counter Culture Coffee, Golden Moon Tea, and funky iced-tea flavors like coconut and vanilla mint. — Molly Finkelstein