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Herrine Ro: If you're New York City
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and have a hankering a sweet treat,
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there's no place Levain Bakery.
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Locals and tourists flock here
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for the cookies.
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Customer: I've heard they have the best cookies
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in all the world.
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[laughs]
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Herrine: I've got the ,
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and I am ready to eat
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all the different kinds of cookies.
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We all know that the chocolate chip walnut cookie here
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is the in New York City,
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but how do the other three cookies taste?
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Are they equally as as the chocolate chip walnut?
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These are all questions posited in my brain,
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and I'm here to answer those questions.
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You can find the cookie on multiple best-of ,
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and it even got our vote
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as the best chocolate chip cookie in New York City.
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There are of cookies.
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Chocolate butter, double chocolate,
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oatmeal raisin, and chocolate chip walnut,
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Levain's top seller.
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Every day, the cookie dough in
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Levain's Harlem location,
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to be freshly baked.
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Pam Weekes: We get two people to get the bowl,
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because it's so big and heavy with all that ,
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and carry it over to the table.
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We each cookie by hand
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to be sure that it's ounces,
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and then we put them a tray
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and wrap them plastic wrap
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and put them the refrigerator
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until we're ready to bake them.
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Every cookie when Levain Bakery
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is probably gonna be less than an hour oven.
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Herrine: Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald
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are longtime friends.
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While for the Ironman Triathlon,
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they the ultimate chocolate chip cookie
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to fuel them through .
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In 1995, they their jobs in fashion and finance
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the first Levain Bakery in the Upper West Side.
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The bakery quickly a neighborhood favorite,
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and the massive cookies were
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the most beloved item .
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In a time with no social media,
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the cookies' popularity grew by word of ,
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stretching from New York City and beyond.
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Connie McDonald: We're an overnight success
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of after years. [laughs]
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Herrine: Fast-forward almost years,
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and you can find perpetual lines of tourists,
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marathoners, and seasoned New Yorkers
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at all Levain Bakeries.
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Customer: It's very good.
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My mom, I think, makes really good chocolate chip cookies,
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and this is very, like,
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thick and doughy, .
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Herrine: It's no surprise many bloggers and YouTubers
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have attempted these famous cookies.
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But the original Levain cookie recipe is top secret.
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Let us start with the chocolate chip walnut.
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I mean, look at....
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Ooh!
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Look at that.
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It's everything you want in a cookie.
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It's, like, molten and gooey
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and almost in the inside,
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the outside is this beautiful golden brown
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and has this exterior shell,
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and there's speckles of little chocolate chips inside,
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and then you get the and
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from the walnuts.
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Walnuts? Yeah.
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It's everything you want.
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This is the dark chocolate peanut butter cookie.
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That almost a brownie.
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That tastes a candy bar.
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Honestly, this tastes better than a Reese's cup.
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Like,
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dare I say that? It tastes better than a Reese's cup.
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Next up we have .
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Because of the molten interior,
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it's just a
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far...
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adult version of the oatmeal raisin cookie
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that I grew up eating
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that I know and love,
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so right now,
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three out of the four cookies in,
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this will have to be my least favorite
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just because it's not what I'm .
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But still, very delicious cookie.
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Last but not least,
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the dark chocolate with chocolate chips.
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Is this gonna be too much chocolate?
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Isn't, like, brookie a thing?
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A mash-up?
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If it isn't,
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I would describe this
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as closely to
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a brownie-cookie hybrid.
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Of the four that we tried, this one is the sweetest.
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It also is the chocolaty-est.
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If you are a chocolate lover
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and you love to indulge in rich,
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sumptuous desserts,
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this is the one for you.
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Now that we tried all four, I will give you the breakdown.
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[drumroll]
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I am a of habit.
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I know what I like, and I'm gonna stick to them.
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Therefore, the is my favorite.
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Always has been, always will be.
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Runner , the chocolate chip peanut butter.
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Oh, my God, it is so good.
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And then, would be the oatmeal raisin.
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Still very good.
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I like a chewier oatmeal raisin cookie.
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And the double dark chocolate...
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I'm not too much of an avid chocolate lover,
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so the overall sweetness and everything
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makes it the .
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If you want to try the cookies yourself
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but don't live in New York City,
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Levain can ship its cookies to you.
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But if you ever in the Big Apple,
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make sure to step one of Levain Bakery's stores,
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because New York City's favorite cookie
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is best enjoyed fresh and warm.
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It's so good.