NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Call it a culinary collision: Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish festival of lights -- filled with potato latkes, chocolate coins, and donuts (known as sufganiyot) -- kicks off on Dec. 25, meaning it will share the culinary space with traditional Christmas fare.
Enter Breads Bakery, which has announced its "Chrismukkah" menu, consisting of baked goods representative of each holiday -- as well as an eye toward New Year's Eve.
As part of its Hanukkah offerings, Bread Bakery -- which has locations in Union Square, the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, Rockefeller Center and a kiosk in Bryant Park -- will offer 4 varieties of sufganiyot: pistachio, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry (1 for $3.95; 12 for $39).
The donuts, which are sometimes described as a cross between a beignet and a jelly donut that's eaten during Hanukkah. They're a part of the Hanukkah menu, since it's a tradition to eat food fried in oil -- a nod to how the oil in the ancient temple lasted eight days.
And, of course, Breads Bakery for Hanukkah is making deliciously fried potato latkes, served with sour cream and homemade applesauce (1 for $3; 6 for $16; 12 for $30).
As for Christmas, there's a trio of cookie offerings: linzer cookies (shortbread cookies with raspberry jam and streusel, $10.95), chocolate hazelnut sable ("decadent" dark chocolate cookies with chopped hazelnuts, $10.95); holiday cookie tin (decorative gift box with Linzer, Chocolate Hazelnut, Ginger, Tahini and Earl Grey Sandwich cookies, $59).
The Christmas menu also includes a linzer tart (hazelnut tart filled with raspberry jam and topped with shortbread, $39) and Brussel sprout tart (roasted brussels sprouts and Gruyere cheese on a flaky puff pastry crust, $29).
And there's also a Stollen bread, which is a sweet bread dusted with sugar and filled with raisins, candied orange and lemon and a marzipan center ($27.95).
For New Year's Eve, Breads is baking Medovik, a caramelized biscuit layer cake with buckwheat honey and sour cream filling ($35.95), as well as parmesan cookies ($9.95), savory bites "loaded with parmesan and gouda cheese and rolled in sesame and nigella seeds," according to Breads.
The Hanukkah menu is available until Dec. 31, the Christmas menu until Dec. 24, and the New Year's Eve menu until Dec. 31.