Alpine Bakery

Alpine once again has outdone themselves! They made our gender reveal cake for this past weekend and it was absolutely beautiful… And delicious!!! We will never go anywhere else for a cake, not to mention everything else they have is delicious! Thank you Alpine family for making our day that much more special!

I grew up in Smithtown and have been going to this bakery for many years and must say this is the best bakery for Italian pasteries, cakes and donuts. I especially love the jelly donuts, napoleons and chocolate crullers. As for the canoli’s, they are the best in the metropolitan area. I have tried them from many bakeries including Fortunato Brothers in Brooklyn, and Alpine wins hands down!

Good bakery, but they charged me 18 $ to put a cross on my daughters christening cake. Seriously Alpine?!? And when ordering the woman asked me if I wanted this cross and made no mention of the additional charge. As well as other charges for fillings. Pretty ridiculous of both you for charging that and me for not looking closely at my receipt.

Best seven layer cake I’ve ever had! Deff recommend their cake pops as well!!! Been there several times and have never been disappointed.

Hands down best tiramisu and cannolis!!! They have so many desserts to choose from. They have a variety of mini desserts and cakes! My favorite is the tiramisu pie!!! And my bf loves the chocolate covered cannolis! The Cannoli cake had too much cake for my liking but was still satisfying for the cannoli lover in my life. The ladies working there are very friendly and attentive.

My family loves Alpine we get all our cakes for every special occasion. And we do that bc you get what you pay for an awesome cake that looks and taste like heaven! But our last cake was a BOMB:(. It tasted great but looked like my 9 yr old made it. I had a Peppa Pig themed cake done for my 3 yr olds bday. I brought in 3 pictures of what I wanted was asked specific questions and gave specific answers. I was heart broken when my cake looked like a joke this is not what I pictured my my little girls special day and certainly not for the amount that I paid! After complaining when I picked it up about how unhappy I was they told me they thought it looked good and offered to reimburse me $ 18. For the picture they scanned for the cake. I hate to stop coming here for our traditional occasion cakes but if they don’t invest in some newer cake techniques and decorators that take pride in there work we will never come back. I have been coming here for 13 years have been more then pleased with birthday cakes christening, communion, and every other milestone in my kids lives. So I was overly disappointed when this was the quality I received. Please improve you cake decorating area!

This bakery puts others to shame. I know many people who go out of their way to go here passing many bakeries along the way. Worth the drive for their unique desserts boasting with flavor. The things they do with Cannoli make me amazed that it even exists.
Worth Every Penny

and they have pizza dough! Last minute cookie run and I saw it… Yes pizza dough. I bought it, and made an amazing pizza with mozzarella and basil. Alpine your the best!

I was in the area and decided we needed something in case supper (at home) was less than stellar – it was ok. I really expected it to be really nice and tasty but four of us tried a variety of the cupcakes and it was – ok. Not the four stars that I expected. The carrot cake icing seemed to have picked up a flavor in the refrigerator and really the chocolate was the only «pretty good» one – it wasn’t so bad that I wouldn’t try it again, but I wouldn’t make a special trip

There’s a reason Alpine has been around for so long… it’s simply fabulous. Go morning or night and their shelves are always stocked with goods. It’s as if they never stop baking.

Even before we moved to Suffolk, we were coming here. We usually got to Fourth World Comics first, then mosey on down to Alpine. The smell inside is incredible — it’s like your shirt will be covered in powdered sugar by the time you leave.
Our favorites:
Cannoli chipwich (two chocolate chip cookies with cannoli cream
Chocolate torte (gluten-​free; a flourless chocolate cake with a bit of caramel on top. Divine!)
Cannolis
Cupcakes

For a local bakery it is okay. Uncle Giuseppe’s across the street is far more authentic in terms of pastry, cake, etc, selection and quality. In terms of an Italian bakery, this is mostly just Americanised with a great smelling store and lots of pretty colored sprinkles.
Okay, but not great.

I have been meaning to write this review for weeks and just finally got around to it…
In a nutshell, I just moved out to suffolk county from my hometown in west Nassau county. I obviously needed to find a new great authentic Italian bakery! I did an extensive search and Alpine kept popping up.
I ordered a Napoleon cake for about 35 people for my father’s 60^th birthday. There was a major miscommunication over the phone when placing the order between myself and a lady that took the order.
I asked if this would be a «standard Napoleon cake»? She explained to me what it was and it sounded standard to me.
When I went to pick up the order, I was so highly disappointed and so unhappy with the cake because her idea of «Standard» meant covered in heavy whipped butter cream, and my idea of «standard» just meant, how it normally looks in pastry form in the window; white with black (or brown chocolate) stripes. I couldn’t have my Dad’s party without a cake, so I paid for it and felt crushed because my parents are just not whipped cream-​lovers at all and I knew they wouldn’t even touch the cake. The lady (I wish I could remember her name!) and I spoke about the miscommunication and she felt just as bad as I did. She did everything she could to try to get me some kind of satisfaction.
In the end, she let me keep the disappointment cake and compensated me with Large-​sized individual Napoleon pastries, right out of the glass case, exactly how I wanted it– enough for 35 people.
Things happen and we just had 2 different ideas of what «standard» meant. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, but I felt that she did right by me as a paying customer. Everything was absolutely delicious and I will be purchasing all my future orders with them and will continue to send business there. I couldn’t be happier with the great business in my new neigborhood.

I guess this place is Buon Amici’s older sister!
I’ve heard about it for years, I’ve eaten their baked goods at parties, and in 2015 I finally got around to it. The reason I say its Buon Amici’s older sister is because the two places look very similar except that Alpine is bigger.
I got the Napoleon, cream puff, cookie, tiramisu, and a Boston cream like donut. I got the bigger sized pastries which came out to around $ 11. Not the best place to come if you are looking for sugarless and gluten free items although they have some.

My family has legitimately been getting sweet goods from this shop for as long as I’ve been alive. When I was old enough to understand the difference between cakes from here and there boy was I happy we found this gem. I’m pretty sure they outdo most bakeries on most things… not an exaggeration. The carrot cake is to die. The napoleons are simply the best on LI. The cannoli cream is on point. The cookies are dreamy. Their breads are awesome. What else do you need to know when choosing a bakery? How about plan ahead? Because this place gets super busy near a holiday. But you can always stop on your way home from work and get a snack… Mon– Fri… or Sat… or Sun… oh my goodness I love it. Best bakery on Long Island, period.

I’m afraid to write this review due to all the good reviews but here it goes. We had stopped into alpine bakery one day to try some bakery items due too all the good reviews. We had a black & white cookie, a cake pop, and a peanut butter cupcake and Alpines version of the cronut. Now the black and white cookie tasted like corn bread with icing, the cake pop was raw as in half baked. The much talked about cronut was soggy and filled with a generic filling and the cupcake was dry but tasted ok.
So we had diner at the Thai House one night and decided to skip desert and go and try Alpine once more to see if anything changed. We got a napoleon, a éclair, tiramsu cup. Now the napoleon and the éclair were soggy and the Chocolate on the éclair had a off taste to it. The tiramsu had no real coffee flavor and the lady fingers were dissolved in the cream. I think we should have had desert at the Thai House and they do have good deserts. I see no real reason to return if they cant get the basics right im afraid too try anything else. Sorry

What the what?! I thought I reviewed Alpine Pastry Shop already? Huh? Ok I guess not.
4 Stars from me today and probably 5 from my boss and co-​workers and their bosses. We had a little shindig today in our office to celebrate a very special and exciting occasion. For a change we decided we’d do breakfast (bagels and some various cream cheeses) and some delicious treats instead of all ordering lunch from somewhere and waiting for it to be delivered. Man am I glad I was the one on pastry duty. All I received was high praise and how awesome our treats were.
SoOo looks like I’ve got to add another hat to my little pile that I got on my head. Which is fine by me. I like making everyone smile with treats and food. It’s the Italian in me. Anyway… Back to the review.
So I ordered some Danish (4 cheese, 1 lemon, 1 cherry, 2 chocolate I believe) and some Cronuts (2 Salted Caramel, 2 glazed, 2 cinnamon, 2 lobster cream [I think it was buttercream and whipped cream], and 2 jelly). Listen to me… we all behaved ourselves today and starting cutting into the Cronuts to share amongst eachother. My salted caramel crowd let me tell you something ok? This Cronut is life changing. It is so incredibly good. Like «Shut up and let me close my eyes enjoy this… k? Thanks.» My boss actually asked me why I haven’t gotten them sooner? Yeah we’re both caramel fiends (Typically we both get Venti Caramel Macchiatos from Starbucks).
So get here now… Get a Salted Caramel Cronut… Go home or get a good cup of coffee from somewhere and just sit and relax and enjoy this! Will I be back? ABSOLUTELY!!!

50 years of being in business is nothing to sniff at, and the fact that it’s still family-​owned and –operated earns it brownie (haha) points for sure. It’s bright, cheery, well-​organized, and absolutely spotless … and best of all, it’s open late. Down by me on the South Shore, good luck getting dessert after dinner rather than before! So we always save room and dine early when we head out to the other end of 111, just so we can make a pit stop here for a snackie, or at least to ogle the goods for grabs.
Those pluses, and the organized and attentive service, are the majority of the reasons I’m ranking them this highly. As for the edibles, it’s the jelly cookies that keep it a strong contender for the top of the list, since every time I’ve been, I’ve been overjoyed with the cookies but disappointed with the pastries.
The thing about the cookies is not only the variety and the presentation, but the nearly absurd (in the best way) amount of jelly and jam in each one. They do NOT skimp in between the buttery layers of cookies, and the quality of the chocolate they dip or drizzle on the cookies is far and away superior to supermarket bakeries and the majority of their local counterparts. And, apricot jelly-​filled cookies are a thing here! Hooray for that! And right now, that filling is served sandwiched between heart-​shaped chocolate-​covered shortbread. Not the crumbly Italian butter versions that disintegrate halfway home, but nice, dense, rich-​tasting layers.
The single-​serve goodies are both a pro and a con. First of all, I love that they’re reasonably priced, and that you can get rainbow cookie (mousse) cake by the slice, tiramisu in a cup, pignoli tarts, mini pies, and giant linzer cookies. They’re also big on different varieties of cronuts, that crazy combo of croissants and doughnuts made so famous in NYC by pastry chef Ansel. Buuuut … they failed to impress. I tried their most popular rendition, with the lobster tail cream (which, btw, is ridiculously good, but its richness is NOT for the faint of heart), but it was underwhelming to say the least. Maybe because the hype was so big? But mostly because it was very, very dry. Like Viennese/​Hungarian-​bakery-​dry. Like I ended up just eating the cream like the good, fat American I am because I’m used to moister pastries.
I thought that may have just been an anomaly, or just how cronuts are supposed to be, but tonight’s lemon cream and coconut snowball proved that not to be the case. SO DRY. So coconutty and buttercreamy, and the lemon frosting in the middle so well-​balanced, but so very dry. Which isn’t necessarily a terrible thing because then I stopped after eating half because I was bored and it wasn’t fulfilling the textural satisfaction I require from cake.
That being said, I’m still willing to try again with a regular cake. Again, maybe it’s just the single-​serves that have this problem? But I’m not willing to give up on this place yet, and two $ 2.99 letdowns are still not enough to detract from what is otherwise a very pleasant bakery experience.

Every time I visit family up in LI I ALWAYS make a stop at Alpine.
This place has some of the best cannolls I’ve ever had-​and I have tasted a ton. Being Italian I tend to try them all and these are my favorite in Long Island for sure. The filling is absolutely perfect and the shell is that beautiful blend of not too greasy and not too doughy that I can’t seem to perfect on my own. A+. I end up leaving with 4 – 6 so it’s enough to satisfy the craving and not let them go bad, but not so many that I’ll end up hating myself.
Picture your Italian bakery. Walk into Alpine-​open your eyes. Cookies, tarts, cakes, bread, cannolis, cupcakes, you name it they make it. A sweet tooth’s dream and a diabetic’s nightmare. They do some AMAZING cake work here too. I don’t live here sadly but if I did you bet they would be making my birthday cake.
Everything is fresh, delicious, and packaged old school style with twine. That touch is nice. The price is totally worth it too-​obviously a family owned bakery isn’t going to be the cheapest in town but the quality makes up for it in every bite. Nobody would ever imagine that anything was pulled out of a deli counter because it’s so decadent and all the ingredients mesh together. These recipes were clearly made with love. Worth every penny and every calorie!

Yes I would have to agree Alpine does live up to all the hype.
Everything is honestly delicious. I make the trip out there every single year for the pumpkin cheesecake from Queens. It is worth every penny of gas to go out there.
Everything is always fresh, and always taste great!