At Ring Ding Bar in New York City, you can relive those sweet memories over and over again.
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Ring Ding Bar is a whimsical New York City sugar confectionery shop where cheerful baker Madeline (Carvalho) Lanciani sells delicious treats that evoke memories of her American childhood while celebrating her immigrant family's success story.
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Tucked away in an old brick warehouse in the city, this is a lovely spot that exudes the atmosphere of a rustic country town.
“When you go to a sushi bar, you get to eat a lot of different kinds of sushi,” Lanciani told Fox News Digital, referring to the unique name of his establishment, Ring Ding Bar.
Madeline Lanciani opened Ring Ding Bar in New York City in 2015 as a homage to the desserts of her childhood, and her colorful treats come in 25 different flavors. (Kelly J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“You can come to the salad bar and get any kind of salad,” Lanciani said. “You can come to the Ring Ding Bar and get a variety of Ring Dings.”
The baker, who was dubbed a “genius” by one customer, shrugged off the praise, instead calling himself a “little creative wizard”.
With meticulous care and an artistic flair, Lanciani reinvents the supermarket snack “Ring Ding,” as she mixes in a bowl a crayon box emerges, a kaleidoscope of colors and flavors.
“When I was a kid, I thought it was great to have a Ring Ding in my life.”
Original Ring Dings, round chocolate devil's food cakes filled with vanilla cream and covered in chocolate icing, are still sold in markets and convenience stores today and were widely popular in the 1950s and '60s when Lanciani was growing up.
She offers a classic white cream-filled chocolate ring ding for traditionalists, as well as a surprise splash of rainbow colour.
A colorful collection of Ring Dings are on display at Ring Ding Bar in New York City: (left to right) Red Velvet, Dulce Le Leche, Rainbow, and Cookies and Cream. (Kelly J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
The Red Velvet Ring Ding features vanilla cream filling between layers of bright ruby-colored cake surrounded by a red chocolate shell.
The Ring Ding is a strawberry shortcake covered in pink chocolate with a layer of red fruit and white cream sandwiched between vanilla cake.
One of Lanciani's newest creations, the Apricot Ring Ding, features bright yellow monochromatic layers of cake, cream and coating inside and out.
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She offers about 30 varieties of Ring-Dings, which can be purchased at her bakery in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood or by mail.
She's hosting an “After Hours” event at Ring Ding Bar, where the bakery will serve Ring Dings, as well as “one-of-a-kind” retro American desserts, wine and other drinks from 7 to 10 p.m.
Lemon cream ring ding at Ring Ding Bar in New York. Lanciani offers about 30 varieties of ring dings, inspired by the supermarket treats he enjoyed as a child. (Kelly J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“I write songs about things that are important to me, things that I loved as a child,” Lanciani said.
“When I was a kid, my mom cooked everything for me, so I didn't really eat store-bought snacks. But I remember my mom putting Linden in my lunch if I got an A on my report card.”
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Ring Dingus was both her family's second home and a symbol of America's burgeoning postwar consumer culture and domestic abundance that her baker father fought for and won soon after arriving from the Old World.
“They gave me good feelings and good vibes, so I started making them.”
Her parents, Joseph and Maxine (Moura) Carvalho, were both immigrants from Portugal, her mother arriving in the late 1920s and her father in the mid-1930s.
Joe Carvalho earned his red, white and blue stripes as a U.S. Army Air Corps navigator aboard B-17 bombers during World War II.
Madeline Lanciani puts the finishing touches on a tray of cookies and cream ring dings, each hand-dipped into a colored chocolate shell. (Kelly J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
His plane was shot down over Europe and Carvalho spent the rest of the war in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
Lanciani said he remains proud of his late father's contributions to the country that was his family's adopted home.
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“Everything I make has to resonate with who I am,” she said.
“And as a kid, I thought having a Ring Ding in my life was the best thing,” she continued. “Ring Ding gave me good feelings and good vibes, so I started making Ring Dings.”
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Ms. Lanciani opened Ring Ding Bar under the Duane Park Patisserie umbrella in 2015. She feared she would face a cease-and-desist order from Ring Ding's manufacturer and trademark owner, now McKee Foods Inc. of Kingman, Arizona.
Madeline Lanciani opened Ring Ding Bar in New York City in 2015. The colorful treats come in 25 different flavors, each one hand-dipped in a sweet coating. (Kelly J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
In return, she received their worship.
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“It's a cute side story,” she said.
“Six or seven years ago, when the CEO of Mackey retired, he asked me to send Ring Dinks for his retirement party. I was like, 'Holy sh*t!' I guess I got the approval.”
