The big Apple bakery

You won't be disapppointed by the great items here, not just pretty but delicious. Love their stuff.

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I prefer some items and others are not my favorite..I wrote that 2 years ago...and lately have had the occassion to go back and try them again. What a difference! I don't know what it is but most recently I had a wonderful experience with a last minute Birthday cake - my boss forgot to order it...I called first thing in am and they got one ready within the hour..plus when I went to pick up ..they gave me some rolls just to try. Very friendly and welcoming! More...

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Delicious & Friendly

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Thank you for the beautiful,deliscious birthday cake you made for my daughter Cindy's 50th birthday. The chocolate mousse filling was soooooo good.

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Great staff! Great cakes ! Great pies ! I Have been going here for years, awesome baked goods. My favorite pie is the Apple Crumb and blueberry pie. Just picked up a Christmas Stollen OMG.Best I have ever tasted ! More...

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This place was referred to me by a friend. I recently went their for Thanksgiving and had a great experience. Staff is super helpful, Store is clean and the selection of baked goods, pies, pastries, etc. is great! I purchased the pumpkin pie which may have been the best one I've ever had along with some cannolis, bread, and a cheese ring. Everything was truly amazing and to find it locally was what blew my mind. I will for sure be going back! More...

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I can’t say enough good things about this bakery, the bread is outstanding, the chocolate ganache cake is to die for, the jelly donuts are the best anywhere hands down, not to mention the most beautiful wedding cakes. Needless to say, I highly recommend this amazing bakery. More...

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I want to give kudos to my local bakery. I am trying to not give business to the same corporations. Trying to support the little guy so I got a cake from Big Apple Bakery in Manahawkin for a birthday party. The cake was phenominal, the service is always top notch and their brownies have revived my faith that good brownies exist locally. This place is by far thee best bakery I have known in a long time. More...

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This is the absolute BEST bakery around! Not only are their cakes absolutely beautiful, but they are SO TASTY! We LOVE the chocolate ganache and the chocolate with raspberry filling. The BAB has made cakes for all the most important days in our family and I look forward to ordering my baby’s 1st birthday cake from them. The owner is extremely friendly and accommodating. I would recommend the Big Apple Bakery to anyone! More...

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Great Local business. Been around for a long time. Excellent product year round !

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Best bakery around. Everything is fresh and delicious.

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Terrific bakery. Have been going there for years. Many items I have had there I label "my favorite thing there." I now have many favorites. Owner and staff extremely friendly and nice. Always come here whenever I am in the area. More...

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Best BAKERY ever!!!!! You will not be disappointed! They even have mouthwatering sammies and other tantalizing food on weekends! Bon appetit!

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We had our daughter's wedding at the Surf City Yacht Club on June 23, 2018. You did a fabulous job on the 3 tiered wedding cake. The theme of the wedding was America - red, white and blue. A moist yellow cake with a fresh strawberry-blueberry-butter cream filling with white frosting and red, white and blue flowers tastefully arranged down one side. Oh and by the way, it went beautifully with the theme! Creative, delicious and beautiful! Thank you! More...

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Just ok .... nothing to write home about. Crumb cake is pretty good but I’ve had better.

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Awesome selection of baked treats, ranging from savory to sweet. Bread for days. The taste of their cookies are outstanding.

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Best rye bread hands down .

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Wow!

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I highly recommend the chocolate cake or lemon blueberry pie.  The rolls are also fantastic.  You should definitely pick up a few if you're planning to grill some hamburgers.  Favorite bakery in the area by far! More...

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Big Apple Bakery provided a beautiful beach-themed wedding cake for our bay-side wedding. It looked amazing and tasted phenomenal. We were limited to either vanilla or chocolate cake and a raspberry, lemon, pudding, or fudge filling. While the cake quality was really great, the tasting was impersonal in a back office and we were limited with our flavor choices. Overall, the cake looked AMAZING and tasted great. We got so many complements! More...

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Delicious wedding cake! I ordered vanilla cake with vanilla  pudding, fresh bananas & strawberries. It was a layered cake so my option was just buttercream and that was also very tasty. The decorations were beautiful!

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This is a true old school bakery. The workers are so friendly and the product is amazing. 5 star all around

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Best bread in town!!! We get all our birthday cakes from Big Apple. I have tried all the bakeries in the area. You walk in Big Apple and you see such a huge selection. This is what you call a real bakery. More...

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I have been to many bakeries. Best in the area!!!! Crumb cake and danish to die for.

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I used to work at the Rite Aid next door. Every morning shift the whole back room would smell like baked goods and let me tell you it was hard not to run outside and buy a muffin! One day, a fellow employee who was on a diet couldn't take it anymore and had to run over before his shift and buy a bun. Some of the best baked goods I have ever tasted, and they will write anything on a cake. Sometimes they have lines out their door. They are Manahawkin's best bakery. More...

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Best bakery in the area. Waited online for an hour Christmas Eve. Well worth it !!! Pastries are fantastic.

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Owner is super friendly and always does the right thing by his customers. All the employees can answer any questions you have pertaining to any cake or pastry order. They have a wonderful assortment of fresh breads and danish rings as well. Everything I have ever purchased here I have been over the moon about and my family and I will continue to come back because of this. We have never been disappointed. Thank you Big Apple for being such a huge part of me and my family's life! To many more years! More...

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The Big Apple Bakery made my wedding cake and I couldn't have been more pleased. We added some trays of their delicious cookies and pastries for our dessert bars. Brides look no further!

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Great range of fresh baked tasty goods. Also has excellent stuffed breads. Friendly staff.

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Some of my friends were raving about the Big Apple Bakery so I decided to try it. Went there and it was everything that I thought it would be. The staff was extremely pleasant and helpful. I absolutely loved the apple turnovers, peach crumb pie, and chocolate cake. I definitely will be back many many times. More...

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Visited this bakery over the Memorial Day weekend, so much to choose from. Everything looked so delicious I couldn't make up my mind. I went with the walnut danish, cheesecake and a dozen pastries. All my quests raved. Guess I will be back agin this weekend. More...

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The best triple fudge cake we ever tasted.  Super moist, the layers of chocolate are not to over powering.  I love the the frosting on the fudge cake is super creamy chocolate. Last holiday, i bought 7 cakes from the bakery and all of them did not disappoint. My guest this holiday were raving at every cake i served in the desert table.  Triple fudge cake 3pcs, 5 layer cake ( impressively good and has a cheesecake) chocolate mousse  was great and their tiramisu cake was extraordinary.  Will come back and buy for more. Definitely recommended the cakes to peers . More...

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The Big Apple Bakery is a family owned bakery that has been in Manahawkin for over 30 years and it is clear when you go in for a tasting (i. e. go in on a weekend morning and you will understand just by the long line out the door). The staff is so welcoming, and Joe (the owner) is a pleasure to work with. The tasting was so easy and relaxing, not to mention the CAKE is out of this WORLD delicious. There was no question after our tasting we would book The Big Apple Bakery. I sent over a photo of how I would like the cake to look and when we showed up to our reception, I was shocked to see that the cake was a spitting image of the photo from Pinterest I sent. It was absolutely beautiful, stunning, every detail was breathtaking.

To top that, the cake was DELICIOUS!! We ended up going with vanilla cake with seedless raspberry spread and custard inside with the classic buttercream frosting. Their buttercream alone is like nothing I have ever had at any wedding. Two weeks later, I still have guests emailing, texting and Facebook messaging me about how delicious the cake was and asking what bakery we used.

It is clear that the Big Apple Bakery takes pride in what they do and pays attention to all the details. When booking your cake vendor, that is what you want - experience with a delicious recipe. Our wedding was a dream come true and The Big Apple Bakery played a huge role in that. More...

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Doesn't get any better!

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I pretty much gave Joe a very brief idea of what I wanted and let he and his staff go with their creativity for our wedding cake. The cake design was perfect and just what I was looking for, the flavor of the cake was ridiculously amazing. Their butter cream is to die for! Some guests are still talking about how delicious the cake was!

We also had them cater an assortment of cupcakes and cookies for our rehearsal dinner and assorted pastries and chocolate covered strawberries for an additional option for our wedding dessert. Everything was amazing and the presentation was top notch.

I can't wait to bring desserts to parties in the future, my go to baker is now the Big Apple! More...

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What a nice place! European style Easter bread and babkas! Clean, friendly and super fast service!Can't wait to try!Just tried the cheese babka - the best I ever tasted ! Very authentic to my Eastern European roots! More...

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Amazing staff and extremely clean. Definitely the best bakery in the area. Even if you don't live in the area, it's worth the drive!

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Some of the best italian pastries in Ocean County. You would think it all came from Brooklyn, NY. I HIGHLY suggest you try their Cheese Ring and Rainbow Cookies! Great service and reasonably priced! More...

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Best bakery in southern Ocean county. Everything is baked to perfection and reasonably priced. The Italian pastries are made authentically like Brooklyn NY. If you want bread get there early because it sells out everyday. You can also order it in advance. More...

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Love their cakes, cookies, bread, and especially their Danishes!! Great place for desserts!! Must try it out if you haven't yet but be warned, don't go when your hungry. You may buy one of everything in the bakery! More...

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The cake was amazing! I called joe 2 weeks before my wedding to see if he could make a cake and he said no problem anything we wanted. We live in north jersey so everything was done by email or over the phone. I sent him a picture of the beach wedding theme cake we wanted and it looked exactly like the picture! We got a 3 tier cake bottom tier was choc cake with fresh bananas in the middle and top 2 tiers were vanilla cake with fresh strawberries. Everyone told us how delicious the cake was! We even had pastries from big apple on our dessert table which were delicious. Joe was very easy to deal with and emailed me back immediately every time I had questions. Joe also delivered the cake and pastries the day of the wedding and set everything up. I never met joe until the day of my wedding when he ran onto the beach to introduce himself as we were getting our pictures done which was so nice! I would def. use them again More...

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Just celebrated my grandmothers birthday and my family got a cake from here! It was beautifully decorated with roses and rose buds. Tasted very fresh and was filled with strawberries and custard! Will be coming back in the future to try their bread. More...

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We worked with Joe at the Big Apple Bakery and our experience was really good. In one short meeting, he was able to customize a beach wedding cake to our taste that was priced reasonably. I would highly recommend booking the Big Apple Bakery for your LBI wedding. More...

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The staff at Big Apple Bakery was very easy to work with. We had called a few other bakeries in the area to set up consultations for our wedding and none were as flexible and seemed as knowledgable as the Big Apple Bakery. They were able to accomodate our availability for a tasting and had some great suggestions for us, as well as, being open to whatever ideas we had. On our wedding day, our cake was bigger and more beautiful than we imagined. Everyone at the reception agreed and said that it was delicious too. Unfortunately we did not get to try any of the other baked goods at the bakery, but they looked wonderful. We will definitely be stopping in to try some more items next time we are on our way to LBI and I would definitely recommend Big Apple Bakery other LBI area brides. More...

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Perfect, beautiful and delicious. Customer service was great and the cake was not only exactly what we asked for, it was decadent. Our guests loved it and made it a point to tell us it was the best cake they ever had. Thank you Big Apple Bakery for adding to the best day of our lives!!!! More...

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