Italian orange drop cookies, like their more common lemon drop siblings, aren't meant to be very sweet.
Many are heavily frosted; these ($6 per pound, or about 75 cents each) were glazed, lightly but thoroughly. Below: chocolate marble pound cake ($2, at $4.95 per pound). Royal Crown's bread is highly regarded, too.
These items were bought at Royal Crown Paneficio, shown below for old time's sake. That location, two blocks to the south, is now closed.
Royal Crown Paneantico
6308 14th Ave. (63rd-64th Sts.), Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
718-234-3208
