Rebecca Marx

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Because this is the very last Fat Pants Friday installment I'll ever write (not counting, of course, this morning's regurgitation of my all-time favorites), I spent a fair amount of time trying to decide how to best consume my last professionally-mandated serving of simple carbohydrates. Until I finally realized that it only made sense to do so by returning to the origin of my New York bakery obsession, the monkey cake made at Amy's Bread.

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Cake Shop's peanut butter bomb.

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I have spent the last 18 months or so eating untold amounts of fat and sugar, often but not always in the name of Fat Pants Friday. This column has given me a great excuse to coddle my sweet tooth, and more importantly, to visit and revisit some of the city's best bakeries and pastry pushers. It has, as one would expect, been a lot of fun, and a lot of calories. Today is my last Fat Pants Friday, and I've been asked to mark the occasion by revisiting my 10 all-time favorite excursions, the ones that have continued to haunt my daydreams long after my blood sugar has descended to a safe level and my teeth have stopped hurting. They're in no particular order, for the simple reason that I love them all.

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Robert's a fan of Sunset Park's Green Fig Café and Bakery, and after visiting it yesterday, so am I.

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My love of Quality Meats' Quality Cakes is no secret, so when I heard their stay at the restaurant had been extended until October, I decided to celebrate accordingly.

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Although Jane's Sweet Buns is known for its booze-embellished sticky buns, I was swayed on a recent visit by the sight of the bakery's sandwich cookies, sitting plump and pretty under a glass cake lid.

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We were pretty excited when we learned earlier this month that Alfama was going to start selling bread. News of any new bakery is exciting enough, but news of a Portuguese restaurant selling its native breads is cause for celebration. New York certainly isn't lacking in baguettes and croissants, but creations like broa (a cornmeal-based bread) and pasteis de nata (wee custard tarts) are rare birds. And so we're grateful that they've come home to roost at Alfama. And even more grateful for pão de Deus, the sweet coconut bun pictured above.

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Alas, M. Wells, our time together was so brief, yet so sweet. And quite literally so, thanks to such estimable desserts as the peach cobbler pictured above.

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Sugar Sweet Sunshine is an old favorite of ours: Not only are its cupcakes far better than they need to be, it excels in its interpretations of many other members of the American dessert canon.

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Yesterday, we wrote about our love of the zucchini sandwich at Bien Cuit, a French bakery and café that just opened on Smith Street. Today, we're exploring the sweeter side of its menu.

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As anyone who has ever stuck a bowl of grapes in the freezer can attest, frozen fruit is a criminally underrated dessert. Particularly when you're at the beach and don't want to sink under the weight of whatever you've just eaten or end up with a blanket full of crumbs. All of which makes the chocolate-covered frozen bananas at Motorboat & the Big Banana an ideal pairing for a day at Rockaway Beach.

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