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Downtown Highlights: Funny Face Bakery – Hilarious, Delicious, and A-dough-rable Cookies

Downtown Highlights: Funny Face Bakery - Hilarious, Delicious, and A-dough-rable Cookies
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Hilarious, Delicious, and A-dough-rable Cookies

 

In this episode of Downtown Highlights, we visited Funny Face Bakery, where they make a variety of very detailed, hand-piped cookies.

About Funny Face Bakery

 

Funny Face Bakery They are located in the Seaport District at 6 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038

 

Funny Face Bakery was founded in 2016, Sarah Silverman opened her first bakery in East Village. She gained attention for her cupcakes, made with Swiss meringue buttercream. Silverman debuted her face cookies in August 2016 for the first time with the faces of the 2016 Presidential Candidates. These cookies quickly gained a lot of attention. As a result, Silverman hired a cookie decorating team to keep up with the demand. 

Some classic cookies at Funny Face Bakery: Kim Kardashian Crying, Leonardo DiCaprio as the Great Gatsby, You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie Meme, and an Adidas Sneaker.

 

Each cookie is made with a laser printer cookie cutter to ensure each cookie is the exact shape needed. Cookies go through two rounds of icing, first a base coat of icing and then the detailed hand piping. The making of one cookie can take 20 to 30 minutes to make depending on how involved the design is.

Five deluxe cookies at Funny Face Bakery: Chocolate Chip, Rainbow Crumbfetti, Double Chocolate, S’mores, and Oatmeal Raisin

They also have freshly baked, 6-ounce deluxe cookies that come in flavors including double chocolate, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and more.

Some of Funny Face’s best-selling cookies are the Kardashian cookies, the Harry Style Cookies, the Birthday-themed Cookies, and the Mean Girl’s themed cookies. Funny Face Bakery’s animal cookies, such as the horses and dinosaurs, are very popular among kids. They will also make personalized cookies of your face or your pet, the perfect gift for someone who loves sweets.

 

Tasting the Cookies at Funny Face Bakery

 

These cookies taste as beautiful as they look! Since Funny Face Bakery has not yet developed gluten-free options, Sam did the tasting in this episode. First, she tries a birthday-themed decorated cookie. This cookie was absolutely beautiful and sweet. She almost felt bad for eating such a detailed piece of art. The second cookie Sam tries is the deluxe double chocolate cookie. This cookie was so gooey and soft, and of course, very chocolatey.

 

Funny Face Bakery is Something Really Special

 

This bakery is one of a kind. There are no other bakeries nearby that create as detailed and beautiful cookies as Funny Face Bakery. Also, Funny Face is in on internet culture, allowing them to relate well with people, especially younger generations, with their celebrity and meme cookies. Funny Face Bakery is definitely worth the visit! 

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Downtown Gift Guide: 6 Items To Help Make Someone Feel Great

As Black Friday is just a few days away, there is still plenty of time for some gift-planning for the upcoming holiday season. Below are six gift suggestions from Downtown to help someone in your life feel great.

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1) H2O+

H2O+ Beauty is known for its water-based skin care formulas, combining natural resources and advanced skin care technology. In time for the holidays, H2O+ has created a handful of holiday gift sets worth considering. The Glow Factor set carries a $58 value — yet a $45 retail price — and includes 8 ounces of Sea Salt Body Butter, 12.2 ounces of Sea Salt Body Wash, and 4 ounces of Sea Salt Body Glass. Those preferring milk to sea salt ought to appreciate the Luxe It Up set, as featuring Milk Body Butter, Milk Body Wash, and Specialty Care Hand & Nail Cream.

2) Sleep Easily

Getting a good night’s sleep isn’t always an easy thing to do. Fortunately, a product like Sleep Easily exists, providing a chemical-free sleep solution that fits in the palm of your hand. Developed by psychotherapist Dr. Richard Shane, Sleep Easily is a mini audio player which walks users through five physical triggers to get them to sleep immediately. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for under $100, a fraction of what multiple sessions with a specialist would cost.

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3) Yes To

Yes To is a global leader in natural beauty products, as sold in over 20,000 stores around the world. One thing that makes Yes To different from other brands is that its products are not only natural, but also made with fruits and vegetables. Perfect for traveling, Yes To makes single-use, detoxifying Holiday Paper Masks. For your home, Yes To now produces Liquid Hand Soaps, and its PrimRose Oil Coriander variety is both hydrating and wonderfully-scented.

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4) Kiehl’s

Since 1851, the East Village-based Kiehl’s has been producing top-tier cosmetic products. As part of a partnership with FAILE — the Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller — Kiehl’s has produced a limited-edition gift set. For $45, customers will not only get a set of hydration essentials including Creme de Corps, Ultra Facial Cream, Daily Reviving Concentrate, and a FAILE sticker, but also the satisfaction of knowing that their $45 went towards purchasing 415 meals via Kiehl’s collaboration with Feeding America.

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5) Scent Trunk

There is a subscription service out there for nearly everything imaginable, but until discovering Scent Trunk, I had never heard of a subscription fragrance company. Those interested in trying out Scent Trunk can purchase a “Fit Kit” for the cost of shipping and receive an at-home try-on kit complete with six samples of the most polarizing base notes, helping to introduce users to their pheromonal senses. From there, Scent Trunk can send you a fragrance akin to your preferences.

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6) EOS

The brand name of “eos” is an abbreviation which stands for “evolution of smooth,” so it is not surprising that eos has celebrity fans in Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, and Ashley Benson. For the 2016 holiday season, eos is offering a limited-edition collection of flavored lip balms. The holiday three-pack includes Honey Apple, Wildberry and Passion Fruit, while the two-pack includes Vanilla Bean and Winterberry.

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Athleta To Hit New York Fashion Week

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Athleta, a performance apparel brand for women, just announced that they will be hosting a fashion show during the upcoming New York Fashion Week.

A rep from Athleta told us, “As we see fitness influencing fashion more and more, we felt this was a great opportunity for Athleta to showcase its incredibly versatile performance product in a way consumers have never seen before. The event will show how Athleta pieces can take you way beyond your workout!”

At the show, attendees will see fitness and fashion blend in a way that’s never been done before. For the collection, the active apparel brand aims to tell a story, Crush of Adrenaline, through different forms of athleticism and movement.

This won’t be a conventional fashion show. Parkour runners, yogis, b-girls, and dancers alike will all be performing at an adrenaline-fueled pace in a 2- story installation arranged by the world-renowned choreographer Luam Keflezgy.

Keflezgy’s super star client list includes: Beyoncé, Rhianna, Britney Spears, and Kayne West.

On September 3rd at SIR Stage near Herald Square, an exclusive show for media will debut at 10am, followed by a second show later in the day for a select, few lucky consumers who are able to snag some tickets!

Click to book your tickets to the show!

-Laura Miranda MSPT, CSCS, DOWNTOWN’s Fitness Director