Brownies & Cream

Brownies & Cream is no longer here. :(
Everything was really good.
Perhaps, it was just the wrong location for them.

I stumbled across this place while walking on Austin St and was pleasantly surprised. First let me say that the woman who was working was very nice and helpful. This place is super cute and ran by the woman who helped me, her husband and her mother in law. I purchased the «7 special brownies» allowing me to choose a variety of brownies to choose from to bring home. I purchased 2 plain, 1 oreo, 2 vanilla cheesecake, 1 dulce de leche and 1 raspberry with white chocolate chip. So far I have tried the oreo & vanilla cheesecake which were awesome. I have read the previous reviews that they are too sweet but I found them to be just fine. I am one of those people who wants my sweets to be sweet otherwise I don’t see the point. My brownies taste fresh and the consistency wasn’t hard like some brownies I have tried at other bakeries. Also, the baked goods are reasonably priced which I can appreciate. I am not on Austin Street often, but when I am I will definitely come back to support this small business and try some of their other treats.

The desserts were way too sweet here. I tried the coconut macaron and dulce de leche brownie. The macaron filling was too sweet for my liking. The cookie part didn’t taste fresh and crumbled upon my first bite. I had higher expectations for the brownie but it was nothing spectacular.
Prices are relatively cheap (under $ 2). They also sell mini cupcakes (similar to Baked By Melissa’s) for $ 1.25 a pop.

I am very, very picky about brownies and I try every brownie I see, and Brownies & Cream are fantastic. I honestly can’t recommend any other brownie I’ve bought in New York as being as good as I can make at home, but Brownies & Cream qualify. And their mini cupcakes are also very good.
This is the first review I’ve ever written on Unilocal,and I was inspired to write it by how great their brownies are and how excited I am to have discovered them! I’ve been going regularly since they opened, so they’ve also stood the test of repeat visits.
The Smores brownies are especially great, but all of them are wonderful (only one I never tried was mocha because I don’t like coffee).

I had two brownies with two scoops of ice cream. I saw that they have a microwave and asked how they served it and was simply told «in a plastic bowl with a cover». I thought that was fine, but then I was suggested to have the brownies warmed up before putting the ice cream on. Sounds like a good idea, right?
So the guy puts the brownies in the plastic bowl for a few seconds, then warms them up in the plastic in the microwave. Who does that?! Apparently the people at Brownies & Cream. Isn’t that the first thing you learn when taught to use a microwave when you’re young? Extremely disappointing.
So, did I eat the brownie and ice cream? Of course! It was decent and I want to like them, but that experience shows me their inexperience and for that I can’t give it more than 2 stars at this point. I hope they get better, because I want to see Austin Street succeed.

The red velvet and strawberry & cream macaroons were delicious.
We were not fans of the Dulce de Leche Brownie. It was a little too sweet for for our taste.
Definitely coming back to try the other flavors of macaroons.

Each macaron was priced at $ 1.65 and they had about 6 flavors. Sorry if I am wrong, can’t recall all the flavors. :)
I tried lemon curd and pink champagn and preferred the latter flavor. Well the size of macaron is bigger than canelle bakery’s mini size $ 1.25 macarons and brownies & cream carried more flavors which was worth my trip.
I may try their ice cream in the future but if I am coming back it will be for macarons. Just as other reviewers mentioned often, the brownies they serve did not look very appetizing.
This bakery is very small, but kind of cute in a way and the staff is friendly which made me want to return! I love macarons! :D

$ 1.65 for each macaroon, around $ 1.65−1.95 dollars for brownies. I loved the Dulce de Leche brownie: the crust was hard enough and it had the perfect amount of caramel in it.
They’re pretty good, and not too expensive either.

Brownies & Cream is a new dessert store on Austin. They specialize in brownies, macarons, and mini cupcakes and have a gelato case toward the back. The space is small and cozy, the service friendly, and prices are affordable (especially relative to Manhattan).
The pastries, however, failed to impress. The name sake brownies were hard and dry. The macaron shells shatter when you pick them up. The mini cupcakes are overwhemingly sweet. I was fond of the flavor combinations, but the execution and texture were not up to par. Hopefully its just them finding their footing.

4 stars just because the canoli macaroon was delish and only a $ 1.65!

I don’t know much about macaroons except that they are light, baked confections that can be in cake or cookie form. The macaroons ($ 1.65 each), more in a cookie-​like form, are delicious at Brownies & Cream. The two cookie-​like wafers are so crispy and airy, while the inner filling is very light. My favorite so far is the canoli, with small chocolate chip morsels surrounding the outside of the cookie. The espresso was also decent, but fell short in that it didn’t seem to do much in the sweet profile. I can’t wait to return and try their other scrumptious desserts.

I was trying to find a place in Queens that sells macarons, and I found this place. It was in the viccinity of where we were hanging out, so we stopped by. I got a few macarons (there weren’t much left since it was late). Espresso, canoli, pink champagne macarons. They were decent, nothing to write home about. Espresso was the best one of the three. I didn’t get pink champagne at all. I got a couple brownies too. For a place that supposedly specializes in brownies, I wasn’t impressed at all. They really need to step their game up.

I like canolis.
I like macarons.
…and I really like canoli macarons.

Somewhere between a cake and a cookie, exists a brownie. Somewhere on Austin between the famous Nick’s Pizza and the famous 5 Burro café, exists Brownie’s & Crème. And somewhere beween their storefront glass and me walking home after work exists a periodic test of will. One in which victory is punished without a bag of macarons in hand for the wife (better than flowers) and failure is rewarded with a bite somewhere between heaven and the place you go if heaven had a meta-​heaven where people go if they die of too many hugs.
So whether you like it classic or al la mode (they have home made ice cream too) this is the place. If the lovely young couple who run this place find luck through the challenges of a small business today, this place has the potential to become a neighborhood classic. An Eddie’s Sweet Shop on this side of FH.
Most of the positive reviews here are spot on. And the few that are very critical have a cruel or rude tone to them that make reasonable folks question their nature.: \

I was waiting for Ashton Kutcher to pop out of the kitchen obnoxiously laughing and screaming «YOU’VE BEEN PUNKED». Sadly that wasn’t the case.
Let me explain. A friend and I stopped by this tiny bakery after lunch, we were so excited to have something delicious for dessert. We walk in and all we see are brownies, macarons and ice cream. Nothing really caught my eye, but I decided to go with a walnut brownie, espresso macaron and a small cup of coffee.
The brownie tasted like it came straight out of a betty crocker box. I wish I was kidding. Crappy brownies with walnuts crushed on top. The macaron was, well, you can’t call what they’re serving a macaron, it was wayyyy too sweet and sticky. The best part of our dessert was the cup of coffee.
They need to hire a new baker asap.
Still waiting for Ashton…

YAY a macaron place in Queens!!!
I am so grateful they opened because I’ve always had to go into the city for macarons, and Brownies and Cream is only a hop away!
They’re macarons hit the spot, and their buttercream fillings are delicious! Texture-​wise, they’re a little on the overdone side, which what took one star off of this rating, but overall, very yummy!

I hate over sweetened desserts. Brownies & Cream make their brownies just right. The price is very reasonable. 3 brownies for $ 4.25, or $ 1.25 — $ 1.70 each.
My favorite in order: White Chocolate Raspberry Brownie YUM, Dulce de Leche, Oreo Brownie, Cheesecake brownie (fudgy and dense, would have enjoyed it more if there were less fudge more brownie cake texture)
Did not like Smores Brownie.
If you’re in the neighborhood, try my suggestions. Enjoy!

WOW. WOW. WOW.
Seriously. Can’t say enough about the place. It is inarguably my favorite place in the neighborhood to go, and to linger a while talking to the wonderful owners of this true family business … More on this as I update my review/​love story.
Anyway, the brownies are amazing. Made from scratch, with all good ingredients and LOTS of love. My favorites are the simple plain brownies, technically, because they are a perfectly balanced synergy of earthy cocoa richness and sugary sweet smoothness. A purist delight.
HOWEVER, when I’m in B&C hanging out with a coffee, I usually go for the extra kick to my pancreas provided by the amazing dulce de lece brownie — in my mind the perfect brownie to enjoy with coffee. They’re as good as Toby’s mom’s caramel brownies — which were the best brownies I have ever had in my memorable entire life. Ask me about it.
NOTE: The coffee is almost as good as the brownies, which really engenders feelings of adoration from me for this wonderful little place. And I take my coffee with just a little «& Cream» to let the Brownies shine as they deliver the dulce.

After seeing all the 4 and 5 star reviews after mine I thought that I needed to give them another chance. This time around I opted to try the dulce de leche, smores and cookies & cream brownies. These were more enjoyable than the plain brownie I had last time. The textures once again were gooey and decadent. The smores brownie ‘graham’ crust bottom was a littler harder than I would have liked, but the flavor was good.
All in all, they are still not my favorite and I can’t see myself craving them again and again, but I can understand why people like them.

If your Only thing is brownies and icecream then you need to do them exceptionally well and this place does not do brownies well at all.
These brownies are bland and boring. No matter what flavor you get they all taste the same.
You may find them edible but I doubt you will go running back for more. We sure wont.