(This venue is closed.) This bakery's heart is in specialty and custom cakes, or so you'd gather from its vast online portfolio. (Maybe you'd also wonder, as I do, what's on those skewers?) By comparison the cookies and pastries can seem humdrum, but a poppy seed roll ($2) was plump and satisfying, if just a touch too sweet.
Kiev Bakery
1627 East 18th St. (Kings Hwy.-Ave. P), Homecrest, Brooklyn (shown)
718-627-5438
Also at 2666 Coney Island Ave. (Crawford Ave.-Ave. X), Gravesend
718-996-6277
www.KievBakery.com
