Entries tagged with 'brownies'
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] An afternoon pick-up coupling chocolate and espresso into one dark fudgy square with a crackly top. Far too sweet for my taste buds, but hard to refuse when shared with a friend and accompanied by a...
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Brownies (along with banana pudding and hot fudge sundaes and cannolis), are one of my many weakness. A while back, I received a jar of brownie mix from Spoon Catering in the mail. The mix baked up very well—dark...
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Last night, an ice cream craving hit me and Robyn. We also craved a brownie, so together, we were after a brownie sundae. We racked our brains for nearby options (we were at the Frying Pan in Chelsea) but...
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Most regulars at Soho's City Girl Cafe are devoted to a few favorites, like the Peanut Butter Balls, ginger cookies, and the ever-fudgy brownies. My affections fall for the latter, a $3 hunk of a brownie, dense and almost...
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I was so sure that my craving for something chocolatey, fudgy, and full of walnuts would be satisfied after the cookie I had at Payard Patisserie. But unfortunately, the combination of chocolate and walnuts has this uncanny ability to...
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The line of post dinner guests, hankering for sweets, at the Chickalicious Dessert Club has gotten no shorter since the New York Times article and our initial mention of their vanilla bean soft-serve. The soft-serve itself has improved significantly, losing...
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To the people who live near or work in Chelsea Market, Amy's Bread is a godsend. And to those people Ed Levine says, "do not take Amy's Bread for granted. Proximity should breed support, not contempt."
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Those who consider Midtown a dessert wasteland clearly have not hovered over the sweets lining the walls of Oren's in Grand Central. It's there that you can find the ever-elusive Cestropbeau ganache brownie, made in Smithtown, New York. A...
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It's a concept one wants to love: tea infused into pastries of all sorts—cookies, scones, puddings, and muffins galore. A concept with great potential, if it's properly executed. But somewhere between idea and production, something is lost, and that...
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"These little squares of chocolate-nut heaven are the brownies of my dreams." I don't know why exactly, but lately I've been exploring the brownie culture of New York. On one foray to Chelsea Market, I tried brownies from Sarabeth's, Amy's,...
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