{"id":298998,"date":"2026-07-17T21:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298998\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:10:07","slug":"magnolia-bakerys-free-banana-pudding-tour-hits-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298998\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Bakery\u2019s Free Banana Pudding Tour Hits NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/restaurants\/magnolia-bakery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magnolia Bakery<\/a> first started drawing lines around the block in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/manhattan\/west-village-manhattan-neighborhood-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Village<\/a>, the New York institution is taking its most famous dessert on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout July, Magnolia Bakery is celebrating its 30th anniversary with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/news\/magnolia-bakery-to-debut-a-customizable-banana-pudding-bar-on-the-upper-west-side-060625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a citywide Banana Pudding Bar Tour<\/a>, popping up at some of New York\u2019s best-known attractions with limited-edition pudding bar flavors\u2014and, in many cases, handing them out for free while supplies last.\u00a0The tour features exclusive flavors at a different location at every stop: Chocolate Hazelnut kicked things off at The View restaurant yesterday and today, to be followed by Red Velvet at Magnolia\u2019s Upper East Side Scoop Shop &amp; Bar tomorrow, July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month, the tour heads to Brooklyn\u2019s nostalgic <a href=\"https:\/\/dialupfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dial Up Days festival<\/a> on July 25, where visitors can sample a Caramel Brownie Banana Pudding Bar. The following weekend, Top of the Rock gets the Rocky Road version on July 26 and 27 before the tour wraps with a Confetti Cake flavor at The Edge on July 29 and again on July 31.\u00a0Magnolia will also make a special appearance at The Daily Show\u2019s 30th anniversary taping on July 22.<\/p>\n<p>While Magnolia first made its name with buttercream cupcakes after opening on Bleecker Street in 1996, its banana pudding eventually eclipsed everything else on the menu, inspiring cookbook recipes, copycats and a devoted fan base willing to queue for a cup layered with vanilla pudding, fresh bananas and vanilla wafers.\u00a0The dessert\u2019s reputation recently got another boost when Food Network named Magnolia\u2019s banana pudding the No. 1 dessert in America as part of its latest ranking of the country\u2019s must-try sweets.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re a longtime Magnolia loyalist or simply looking for a free dessert between sightseeing stops, this might be one of the sweetest ways to spend the rest of July in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty years after Magnolia Bakery first started drawing lines around the block in the West Village, the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,2591,56,63,65,64,821],"class_list":["post-298998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-categories-restaurants","tag-new-york","tag-news-eating","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}