The City Sweet Tooth

New Year’s Eve is almost upon us and I have a fun recipe for you party planners! It’s festive, yummy, and can be served in champagne flutes (as illustrated above)! Syllabub is a traditional English dessert (16th Century!) that is light, fruity, and incorporates white wine. Note: it needs to settle overnight so it must [...]

Welcome to City Sweet Tooth Labs! A new segment where I will try out or test sweets-related products! The first item I’m testing is Gingerhaus, just in time for the holidays! Gingerhaus is a self-contained gingerbread house kit. It comes with mixes for the dough and icing as well as a cardboard house frame and [...]

  Update – Montenapo is closed for Winter and plans to re-open Feb. I was invited to sample a meal at the newish (they opened in May) restaurant Montenapo and it was lovely! I especially liked the Papardelle and the Soffiato Al Cioccolato (Soft Center Flourless Chocolate Cake with Chantilly Cream) it’s the round one [...]

I think Fling is only officially available in CA currently, but my source said she found them at a local discount shop in NYC, so keep an eye out.

As doughnuts are part of Chanukah tradition I thought I’d post a bonus sketch I did based on one of my book tour stops in Portland, OR. The Voodoo Doughnut!

I’ve been informed that December 8th is National Brownie day! Brownies are one of my favorite sweets, so to celebrate I’ve put together a list of what I think are the TOP 5 NYC BROWNIES!

Please enjoy this comic I did about Demel’s NY branch featuring their lovely Sacher Torte ^_^