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Malverne Pastry Shop

Published: May 20, 2010 1:56 PM

Photo credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus | Michelangelo La Mendola is the owner-baker of Malverne Pastry Shop in Malverne. (May 20, 2010)

 It's a sad fact acknowledged by professional bakers: good cakes and bad cakes look exactly alike.

You wouldn't know from looking at Malverne Pastry Shop's cream-filled napoleon that the puff pastry is made in-house, using all butter -- and not just regular butter, but European-style Plugrá, which has a slightly higher fat content. Or that the pastry cream is made the old-fashioned way, from...