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Sugar Rush: Malted Milk Cake at Momofuku Milk Bar

[Photo: Kathy Chan] Thanksgiving season means marshmallow season. And alongside the Vosges Caramel Marshmallows and the house marshmallow flavors at Three Tarts comes the new Momofuku Milk Bar cake. Meet the Chocolate Malt Cake, created from layers of densely...

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Sugar Rush: Stout Cake at Stumptown Coffee

[Photo: Carey Jones] If you're in need of an afternoon pick-me-up, stop off for a stout cake at Stumptown Coffee. The little loaf, made by Frankies and also served at Café Pedlar, is a fine autumn snack. It's spicier...

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Sugar Rush: Sticky Date Pudding from The Sunburnt Cow

[Photograph: Robyn Lee] If I lived in Australia, I'd want to eat sticky date pudding all the time. Alas, I don't, so I've only eaten it twice in my deprived life, the second time at The Sunburnt Cow in...

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Sugar Rush: Prune's Breton Butter Cake

For the month of October, Prune celebrates their ten-year anniversary (impressive!) with a rotation of three special prix fixe menus ($53). Today brings an end to the first menu, in which an extravagant meal of monkfish liver with buttered...

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Sugar Rush: Checkerboard at Black Hound

Black Hound's window display, fronting 12th Street in the East Village, is such a pretty sight. Whenever I happen to pass by, it is inevitable that I stop and pause, observing the neatly arranged rows of sweets—hummingbird cakes, triple...

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Sugar Rush: New Cake Trio at ChikaLicious

A set of three cakes recently made way on the menu at ChikaLicious in the East Village—Strawberry Shortcake, Green Tea & Grand Marnier, and Valhrona Chocolate Cake. When asked for a recommendation, the owner pointed us in the direction...

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Sugar Rush: Bar Breton's Lemon Crepe Cake

Oh, lemon cream. You're a delicious glue for a cake made out of crêpes, but when that cake is only about one-inch by five-inches, I don't get nearly enough of you. Why serve a dessert where the scoop of...

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Sugar Rush: Blueberry Pie and New Soft-Serve Flavors at Momofuku Milk Bar

I stopped by Momofuku Milk Bar late last night with soft-serve on the mind (humid nights call for cold desserts). A quartet of flavors debuted in the afternoon, replacing the former set of lemon verbena, rosemary, blackberry, and apricot...

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Sugar Rush: Raspberry Upside-Down Cake at Abraço

The olive oil cake and cured olive cookie may be Abraço's claim to fame when it comes to baked goods, but don't forget about the rest of the family. I stopped in this past Sunday morning and was extra...

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Gus and Gabriel Gastropub: The Greek Coffee Shop (Diner) of Our Dreams?

Imagine your local Greek coffee shop or diner being taken over by a hard-working fancypants celebrity chef, who happens to be Greek-American. Sounds promising, doesn't it? See what chef Michael Psilakis (of Anthos, Kefi, and Mia Dona) has done at the new Gus and Gabriel Gastropub on the Upper West side.

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