New York City Dessert Tour – Part 1 February 27, 2009
Posted by Dorothy in cake, chocolate, cookies, information, pancakes.Tags: cafe lalo, cakes, chocolate chip, dessert, dessert tour, fashion, flourless chocolate cake, good enough to eat, ice cream, levain, new york, nizza, pancakes, snow white
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My trip to New York City was amazing and beyond fun, especially the dessert part! We visited about four dessert places a day and spent most of the week in a sugar coma. It was perfect!
Dessert Stop #1: Good Enough to Eat
Peter Paul Pancakes
the dessert: their famous Peter Paul pancakes made of Belgian chocolate and toasted coconut
our assessment: Overly hyped up – the Belgian chocolate was delicious, but when isn’t Belgian chocolate delicious? These pancakes were pretty generic, and we decided we prefer pancakes from chain restaurants (Mimi’s Cafe) and local Southern California restaurants (Eggs ‘n Things) better. But the restaurant was darling, with a white picket fence in front of the entrance and a restaurant layout that reminded me of the dwarfs’ kitchen when Snow White lived there.
Snow White's Kitchen
Dessert Stop #2: Cafe Lalo
over 100+ desserts
the desserts: Bailey’s Irish Cream and Almond Torte
our assessment: …NOT what we were expecting. The cafe was completely adorable, all decked out French-like, with supercute glasses, cute outfits for the servers, over 100 varieties of desserts, cute napkins… everything was adorable! But taste-wise? Probably the worst desserts of our Dessert Tour. Both cakes were very dry, and tasted like they had been sitting there for a day… or more.
Dessert Stop #3: Levain Bakery
the dessert: those infamous cookies!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip
our assessment: I LOVED THEM! The chocolate chip walnut cookie is, by far, the best cookie there. We had the chocolate peanut butter chip and the chocolate chip walnut cookie. Both cookies were moist, crunchy on the outside, but soft, melty, on the inside – SO delicious! This was the only dessert location I visited twice during my tour. Helen wasn’t as infatuated with these cookies and I was, since she prefers LA’s Diddy Riese cookies (3 for $1) for their value and variety. They also have a Levain Cam, which takes pictures (at 10 second intervals) of the store – so fun! Helen and I had a ball posing for pictures on the Levain Cam.
Dessert Stop #4: Nizza
the dessert: birthday flourless chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream
our assessment: SOOOO GOOD! the flourless chocolate cake was perfect! The vanilla ice cream was generic, but anything could have gone perfectly with this perfect cake. I don’t know if this dessert is actually on the menu, but I got it for my birthday.
Photographs courtesy of Helen, the best photographer I know!
Helen and Dorothy at Cafe Lalo
Love the food; but I love the outfits even more!! So chic!!
yayayayay SOOOO MUCH FUN WE HAD!!! you are the best baker/sweets blogger ever!!! flourless cake that day was my fav!
just in case anyone wondered what we did when not consuming delectabe edibles: http://helen-wong.blogspot.com/2009/02/love-affair-with-nycity-day-1.html
Sugar coma? I didn’t know there was such a thing. I’d like to be in one. Sorry most of your eats didn’t turn out that great. Sometimes they’re so hyped up that when you get there you expect the.best. Plus, you’re coming all the way from LA, so you should expect something grand.
the picture of you totally reminds me of me!. I’d totally be drooling over the dessert assortment like that.
pancakes for dessert? suits me just fine. i’m completely jealous of your trip!
Oh it’s such a pity that most parts of your dessert tour was less than excellent! It’s such a great idea, though. Now I’m wondering if I should start going on a dessert tour myself!
I’m so glad y’all did this tour! If I ever go to NY, I’ll know what to skip!
I’m dying for one of those cookies…
I’M SO JEALOUS! I want to go to Levain so bad. Those cookies look and sound amazing. Holy moly.
All of the desserts look great, and you girls look so cute! I’m glad you had such a good time. Welcome back!
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thanks for sharing your trip with us!
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