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“Brooklyn's Pop Tarts (no toasting needed)”

If you love Pop Tarts, I've got a treat for you.

Those of you who live in Cobble Hill are most probably already familiar with Ted & Honey, the sweet little market and café just steps from Cobble Hill Park. For everyone else, here’s the skinny: It’s a down-home café (with a little outdoor patio breezy window seating inside) that serves breakfast and lunch from locally-sourced ingredients with a menu of house-made everything from the blueberry lemon scones, to the ham and gruyere muffins, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and house-roasted Dines Farm turkey breast (used in sandwiches layered with brie, cranberry stuffing and cranberry citrus aioli, $8), right down to the pulpy mint lemonade and tangy ketchup.

Breakfast is terrific and includes freshly made egg sandwiches (on your choice of bread baked locally at Caputo’s bakery) like scrambled eggs with havarti, heirloom tomatoes and avocado ($5.50), an “Old School” special made with Dines Farm bacon, egg and cheese ($5.50), and the Red Neck—a wrap filled with eggs, cheddar, hominy grits and smoked ham ($5.50). 

For lunch, there are sandwiches like the Croque Madame ($8), the Fidel, layered with gruyere, smoked ham, smoked pork butt, pickles and mustard ($8.50), and a veggie wrap, stuffed with roasted vegetables, tofu, and goat cheese, with romesco, olive tapenade, and hummus, ($7.50).

But one of my favorite things that they do though is actually a dessert, something they call a Pop Tart. While it’s the same general shape as a Pop Tart (rectangular), otherwise, this pastry has absolutely zero in common with that beloved and most favored breakfast of my youth (many days, I didn’t even bother toasting my Pop Tarts, I just ate them straight from the crinkly foil wrapper, and loved them). Nonetheless, the Pop Tarts at Ted & Honey are marvelous in their own, unfrosted, unprocessed way. They’re buttery rectangular tarts fashioned from paté sucre and they come filled until fat with fresh strawberry preserves, or peanut butter and homemade jelly, or the most decadent, chocolate and banana ($3.50 each). No toasting needed.

This weekend, when the sun came out of hiding and decided to rain August heat on us, Craig and I were at the park and we could not resist a big frosty cup of lemonade and a strawberry pop tart. In the broad shade of a cherry blossom, it was heaven.

Ted & Honey is located at 264 Clinton Street, 718-852-2212.

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