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if you're wandering around new york city
and have a hankering for a sweet treat
there's no better place than the ven
bakery
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locals and tourists flock here for the
world famous cookies
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i've heard they have the best cookies in
all the world
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i've got the goods and i'm ready to eat
all the different kinds of cookies we
all know that the chocolate chip walnut
cookie here is the best chocolate chip
cookie in new york city
but how do the other three cookies taste
are they
equally as good as the chocolate chip
walnut these are all questions that i
have posited in my brain
and i'm here to answer those questions
you can find the cookie on multiple best
of lists and it even got
our vote as the best chocolate chip
cookie in new york city
there are four types of cookies
chocolate peanut butter
double chocolate oatmeal raisin and
chocolate chip walnut which is le ven's
top seller every day the cookie dough is
made in the venn's harlem location
then shipped to every other location to
be freshly baked
we get two people to get the bowl
because it's so
big and heavy with all that dough and
carried over the table
we weigh each cookie by hand to be sure
that it's six ounces
and then we put them on a tray and wrap
them with plastic wrap
and put them in the refrigerator until
we're ready to bake them every cookie
that you get when you come to levin
bakery
is probably going to be less than an
hour out of the oven
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pam weeks and connie mcdonald are long
time friends
while training for the ironman triathlon
they created the ultimate chocolate chip
cookie to fuel them through workouts
in 1995 they left their jobs in fashion
and finance to open the first levin
bakery
in the upper west side the bakery
quickly became a neighborhood favorite
and the massive cookies were the most
beloved item on the menu
in a time with no social media the
cookie's popularity grew by word of
mouth stretching from new york city
and beyond we're an overnight success
after 24 years right
fast forward almost 25 years and you can
find perpetual lines of tourists
marathoners and seasoned new yorkers at
all six level bakeries
i'm very good my mom i think makes
really good chocolate chip cookies and
this is
very like thick and doughy which is what
i love
it's no surprise many bloggers and
youtubers have attempted to imitate
these
famous cookies but the original event
cookie recipe
is top secret let us start with the
chocolate chip walnut
i mean look at
it's everything you want in a cookie
it's like molten and gooey and almost
cake-like in the inside
the outside is this beautiful golden
brown and has this crunchy exterior
shell
and there's speckles a little chocolate
chips inside and then you get the
nuttiness and crunchiness from the
walnuts walnuts yeah it's
everything you want this is the dark
chocolate
peanut butter cookie
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that almost looks like a brownie
that tastes like a candy bar honestly
this tastes better than a reese's cup
like dare i say that it tastes better
than a reese's cup next up we have
oatmeal raisin
because of the molten interior it's just
a far
adult version of the oatmeal raisin
cookie that i grew up eating that i know
and love
so as of right now three out of the four
cookies in
this will have to be my least favorite
just because
it's not what i'm used to but still very
delicious cookie
last but not least the dark chocolate
with chocolate chips
is this going to be too much chocolate
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isn't like brookie a thing a brownie
cookie mash up
if it isn't i would describe this
as closely to a brownie cookie
hybrid of the four that we tried this
one is the sweetest
it also is the chocolatiest if you are a
chocolate lover
and you love to indulge in rich
sumptuous desserts this is the one for
you
now that we tried all four i will give
you the breakdown
i am a creature of habit i know what i
like and i'm going to stick to them
therefore the chocolate chip walnut is
my favorite
always has been always will be runner up
the chocolate chip peanut butter oh my
god
it's so good and then third would be the
oatmeal raisin
still very good i like a chewy or
oatmeal raisin cookie
and the double dark chocolate
i'm not too much of an avid chocolate
lover so
the overall sweetness and everything
makes it
the fourth if you want to try the
cookies yourself but don't live in new
york city
levin can ship its cookies to you but if
you ever find yourself in the big apple
make sure to step into one of levin
bakery's stores because new york city's
favorite cookie is best enjoyed
fresh and warm it's so good
you