December 8 beckons brownie-lovers to indulge
in their favorite delicious sweet treat. New Orleans is famous for its cuisine,
so why not partake in National Brownie Day in one of the tastiest cities on
earth? Below are places that offer the best and chocolatiest brownies NOLA has
to offer.
Bittersweet
Confections
Bittersweet Confectioners was founded by local Cheryl Scripter in 2002 with "a mission to create
an exceptional collection of chocolates using local ingredients and superior chocolate."
This bakery and café will make you a birthday cake or a wedding cake and truly
has everything in between, even breakfast, lunch, and brunch. They offer a wide
range of sweets and even a mini dessert tray, which includes brownies, lemon bars,
peanut butter bars, cheesecakes, tarts, truffles, and chocolate-covered
strawberries. Bittersweet Confections' sweet and flavorful brownies will give
you a chocolate fix on December 8.
Gracious
Bakery + Cafe
This bakery
creates their desserts daily, by hand, and from scratch. They prioritize using
high-quality ingredients, such as Plugra butter and King Arthur unbleached and
unbromated flour, because they believe that baking with the most pure
ingredients creates the best-tasting desserts. Aside from desserts, they also
offer breakfast, sandwiches, and salads—but their brownies are truly remarkable.
Gracious Bakery's brownies are dense and gooey with cream-cheese icing. And
beyond the delicious and chocolatey brownies, customers often rave about the
friendliness and sweetness of the staff—maybe they get it from the desserts!
Levee
Baking Co.
Levee
is named from the French verb lever,
which means to rise; however, this one word is multi-dimensional in its
meaning: Levees surround New Orleans; lever
means to rise, as bread does; and it is the street where Margaret Haughery,
the bread woman of New Orleans, had her bakery. Levee Baking Co. offers a
variety of cookies; kouign amann,
which is comparable to butter cake; a plethora of croissants, cinnamon rolls,
hand pies with homemade jam and filling; and more. They also offer the
flavorful and moist rye brownie, which will leave you wanting more. Spend
National Brownie Day with this inviting brownie, and you'll consider it a day
well spent.
Laurel
Street Bakery
Hillary Guttman, who founded Laurel Street
Bakery, recollects what a difference her bakery made following
Hurricane Katrina. "We were pretty beat up—the whole city," she explains. "But
people would walk into my bakery, and smiles would appear." Come to this
beacon-of-light bakery for sweet treats that are crafted by hand and baked
fresh in the oven. Laurel Street Bakery offers fudge walnut brownies and
cream-cheese Brownies, as well as other delicious chocolate treats. This place
will become your new favorite sweet spot, and aside from desserts, they offer
breakfast and lunch options as well.
Haydel's
Bakery
Haydel's Bakery has been serving New Orleans freshly baked cookies, cakes, and
pastries for three generations. This bakery originally started out as a 24-hour
window service shop yet grew exponentially and became a full-fledged
family-owned business. Haydel's Bakery especially flourishes during Mardi Gras
season, as they ship thousands of king cakes nationally and internationally.
Haydel's Bakery offers the pecan brownie petit four,
which is made from scratch and expertly combines chocolate fudge and authentic
Southern pecans. If you find that you can't get enough of these brownies, you
can order them to be shipped in batches of 24 pieces.
