Buttercooky Bakery

About the Business

Specialties

For over 50 years Buttercooky Bakery has served Long Island residents fresh-baked cookies, pastries and cakes. Our flagship store has become a Floral Park fixture and our Manhasset store has been building a following for a decade and counting. At Buttercooky, our quality shows in every delicious bite. We use only the finest ingredients available to create our baked goods. Buttercooky Bakery offers a variety of traditional European confections, as well as a wide array of cookies, pastries, pies and cakes for all occasions. Buttercooky Bakery opened its doors September 1962 in Floral Park, NY. Since that day, we have made it our mission to supply the Long Island community with the highest quality and freshest baked goods. Living by our trademarked motto, "Baked with Butter, Makes It Better." From these humble beginnings, we have continued to grow and expand in our never-ending pursuit for excellence, and have gained a loyal following. In February 1996, our Floral Park location expanded into the storefront next door giving us more space to create our delicious desserts. This additional space allowed us to increase our productivity and broaden our product line. As we made more cakes and pastries, customers began flooding our store to pick up our wares and our popularity grew. This increased demand for our high quality items warranted us opening up our second location in November 2005 in Manhasset, NY. Buttercooky Bakery has grown to become a local hot spot...

History

Established in 1962.

Buttercooky Bakery opened its doors September 1962 in Floral Park, NY. Since that day, we have made it our mission to supply the Long Island community with the highest quality and freshest baked goods. In February 1996, our Floral Park location expanded into the storefront next door giving us more space to create our delicious desserts. As we made more cakes and pastries, customers began flooding our store to pick up our wares and our popularity grew. This increased demand for our high quality items warranted us opening up our second location in November 2005 in Manhasset, NY. Its proximity to the Long Island Railroad and location in the heart of the town of Manhasset have allowed it to flourish. Our Buttercooky Bakery family continues to grow thanks to our superior products and loyal customer following. We are honored to have been a part of your celebrations in the past and look forward to serving you in the years to come!

Meet the Business Owner

Business owner information

Ben B.

Business Owner

Ben Bogognone started baking cakes and pastries in high school, setting up his "commission" as a Pastry Chef in his father's Pastry Shop, in Brooklyn N.Y. At a young age had good work ethics. Owning and operating his own pastry business in the future, was a vision deeply imbedded in his foresight. Ben was offered a Collegiate Football Scholarship, in which he accepted. While attending College, he majored in Hotel and Business Management. Shortly after graduation, he landed himself a job as Assistant Pastry Chef at the Plaza Hotel in NYC. Wokring two jobs, as he continued to work part-time at his Uncle's previously owned Pastry Shop known as Veniero's, New York City's renowned Bakery. Ben recognized his boundless artistic ideas and creative abilities, and finally set his dream into action. With his gifted skills Ben seized his passion for the arts in pastry, and combined it with his entrepreneurial drive, and together with his wife purchased Buttercooky Bakery.