The fourth stop on the tour was 4th Street Cookie. First of all, can I just
say Reading Terminal Market! Wow! Love it! If I lived in Philadelphia, I would undoubtedly
spend a ridiculously large percentage of my salary buying fresh produce, shell
fish, meat and unusual ingredients to prepare lovely meals, and ready prepared
food and cake when I'm feeling lazy!
If I'm being honest (and isn't that the whole point after all?),
I wasn't so impressed with 4th
Street Cookie. It was a pretty basic counter and
their cookies looked ... well ... normal. I'm not sure what I was
expecting - actually, that’s a lie. I know exactly what I was expecting.
Ginormous cookies that I would ooh and ahh over, beating myself up that I'd
never be able to make cookies as nice! Cookies aren't my forte don't cha know?
I bought a white chocolate chip cookie to take away and
was pleasantly surprised when I eventually tried it. It wasn't the best cookie
in the world - I much prefer Ben’s Cookies in London - but it was everything a cookie
should be. Nothing more. But no less either.
Now this was exciting! They had lots of cupcakes, as well
as brownies and other baked goodies! Mmmmmm, baked goodies .... sorry, what was
I saying? Oh, yes, cupcakes! They had cool colours and lots of exciting
flavours; lots! Crème brulee, pistachio, pina colada, baileys, bubblegum, black
velvet, rose, chai ... and the list goes on. I wanted to try everything! But
you know, the real world being real and all, I can't get everything I want so I
settled on the pina colada, my partner in crime had the crème brulee, and I got
the pistachio for my pistachio obsessed other partner in crime. My pina colada
was good! The cake itself was really good - in Lara's opinion the best we'd
tried - but my heart still lies with Brown Betty's pound cake. And the icing
was nice but not too sweet. Lara's crème brulee icing didn't really taste like crème
brulee; it had more of a burnt caramel taste to it. And when we eventually got
round to eating Doyin's pistachio cupcake (I bought it for her, it was only
right that she halved it with me :D), that also tasted nothing like pistachio
either. So my general impression is nice cake, lots of cool flavours but the
icing leaves a lot to be desired. I admire their ambition though!
Final *sob* stop - Serendipity -
225 East 60th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
While we were in NY, we were staying inQueens . Shopping there during the day and then coming into the city at night for dinner and drinks with friends Trouble and First Lady. That schedule, though fun, did not leave much time for dessert crawling, despite my best intentions. I didn't get to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge or do the Sex and the City tour either :( Anyway, we did manage to make it to Serendipity, which was in Sex and the City incidentally. It was very quirky and their frozen hot chocolates - although not really frozen, just really cold and thick – were lovely! The cheesecake was alright but I really wish I had gone to Juniors for cheesecake. And Magnolia bakery for cupcakes. And Make My Cake for cake. And Crumbs for cake. And ... well, you get the picture. I guess I have to save something for next time right? And I did have Coldstone ice cream!
While we were in NY, we were staying in
3 comments:
Awwww.... next time you'll get to try the others. As a little consolation, you'd love to know that you didn't miss too much by not going to Juniors. People rave about their cheesecake, but I think it's just okay. For me, cheesecake is also about the base (graham cracker base...yum), and they don't have good cheesecake base.
at least you made it to Serendipity! lol Don't worry next time :)
love reading about your travels from a cake angle! Those cupcakes look scrumtious, trip sounds like a lit of fun:)
Next time you go you have lots of cake to catch up with, but start with junior's for their red velvet cheese cake - omg I can't even *slurppp* talk about it
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