Margaret Palca Bakes

Thank you for an amazing 40 years of business. Thank you to all of my customers, coworkers, neighbors, friends, and family for everything. We love you. See you around the neighborhood.

Thank you for an amazing 40 years in business. Thank you to our customers, coworkers, neighbors, friends, and family for keeping us going all these years. We love you! See you around the neighborhood.

Please join us if you can!

Someone better come eat this ladybug 🐞before she flies away!!

Buzz buzz buzz 🐝🐝🐝
We are busy bees this spring!

HAPPY ❤️ DAY.
Show someone you love them with a yummy treat! We are open until 4 today!

All we want for Christmas is cookies! Pickup cookies Christmas Eve! We are open til 7!

Get a beautiful gingerbread house for your holiday table!
Once they are gone, that will be it for the season!
Happy Holidays 🎄

Gingerbread Houses are here at Margaret Palca Bakes! Pick yours up today. Available while supplies last (aka when we run out of jujubes)

Checkout our new PEPPERMINT BROWNIE! Only around for the holiday season

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It is my honor to introduce THE Margaret Palca of Margaret Palca Bakes at 191 Columbia St between Degraw and Sackett Streets. Margaret has been baking in the area since 1989 when she bought her home in the neighborhood. She started working out of her current location in 1999.⁣
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Whether you like excellent affordable coffee, one of the city’s finest bacon-egg-cheese on a soft roll, brownies, lemon squares, cookies, pecan pie, biscotti or any number of other tasty morsels, Margaret Palca Bakes should be an everyday stop as well as a destination visit.⁣
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Margaret grew up in Manhattan and discovered Cobble Hill and the Columbia St area while she was making a delivery for her business at that time. She thought it was the greatest neighborhood she’d ever seen and to this day remembers being dazzled by the outstanding butcher shops and fruit stands.⁣
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Knowing the incomparable quality of her baked goods, it is surprising to know she was never formally taught. Her training has been through trial and error, although she credits a high school trip to Paris one fortunate summer with laying an auspicious foundation.⁣
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The key to Margaret’s sustained success for more than 30 years has to be her discipline and dedication (along with her humble charm). She still shows up to her shop at the crack of dawn (5am!) and works there until 6:30pm.⁣
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Margaret has two favorite recollections of the neighborhood.⁣
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First, the occasion on which she was shown her home by a realtor and took in the top floor’s breathtaking view out over the East River and downtown Manhattan.⁣
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Second, she recalls her neighbors at the time were a colorful lot, primarily coming from a nearby social club. There was a dwarf, many old school neighbors and plenty of car trunks full of random items like lobsters, sneakers, Advil and VCRs.⁣
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Trivia: Margaret chose “Margaret Palca Bakes” as the name of her bakery because it spells out quite simply what she does. The more creative name of her prior establishment had raised too many questions.⁣
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Margaret is an anchor of the BoCoCa Heights area and I am immensely grateful to have spoken with her and thrilled

Cookie game stays strong 💪🏿 around here!
Come in for a beautiful treat

Congratulations to these lovely ladies for finishing school and to for teaching them!
And to all the parents who had to homeschool CONGRATS 🎊🍾🎉 you made it!!!

Regal rainbow sparkle unicorn cookies!

Pick up a psychedelic t-shirt cookie!

We’ve gone cookie crazy. Enjoy these flashy starfish today!

In an effort to offer effortless meal options, we have made frozen pizzas! 🍕🍕🍕
With Margaret’s pizza dough recipe, homemade sauce and 3 kinds of cheese!!
Pick one up today and heat it at home. You can add your favorite toppings or keep it plain.
Or you can pick up MPB PIZZA DOUGH and make one all by yourself!
Stay safe out there and support your local businesses wherever they may be. 💜🍕🌈
@ Margaret Palca Bakes

Quarantined inside but looking for an MPB fix?
WE SHIP! Give us a call at 718.802.9771 and place your order. A FREE COOKIE WITH EVERY ORDER!
PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY CAKE pictured here.

We are here for sandwiches, soup, and baked goods to get you through these tough times. Give us a call at 718.802.9771 to place your order for quick and easy pick up!

These special order Gingerbread Houses for the are in honor of the sugar plum fairies!

Checkout Carrot Cake at on Court Street!

Try this exclusive. Frosted cinnamon buns fresh and delicious tomorrow morning

Fresh muffins on this sunny Thursday.

Ice coffee and a scone for this beautiful

Sailing away this weekend? Get some famous Margaret Palca Bakes decorated cookies! Available in all your favorite shapes and colors!!

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Hand-piped custom designs make every Margaret Palca Bakes cake fun and unique.
Call for your custom cake today! 718.802.9771

Mini lemon tarts with a fresh raspberry garnish

We are berry (bar) excited it’s so beautiful out! Stop by for snack!
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🎆🎇HAPPY JULY 4th🎆🎇
Celebrate the independence of the nation with Stars and Stripes cookies!