The City Sweet Tooth

  The City Sweet Tooth will be in France for a week from 1/26. I’ll be signing my graphic novels Tough Love and Dolltopia at the Angoulême Comics Festival, and then in Paris for a bit. If you happen to be in France, come to the festival and say hello. Details here! In the meantime, [...]

I got to attend this month’s Chinatown Cake Club, a private cake meet-up with cakes by Victoria Howe (the pastry chef of Macao Trading Company). It was a fun experience though it got pretty cramped at times. The cakes were fun and original and I was impressed with her choice of David Wojnarowicz for her featured [...]

DessertTruck Works opens shop on the LES Friday (1/22)! (@ 6 Clinton St. NYC) Pie Contest in Bklyn Saturday 1/23! (Brokeass Stuart) Led Zeppole is open (for those Zeppole and carnival dessert fans)! (The Feed) Bobby Flay ‘s Throwdown with Waffles and Dinges Truck (Grub Street) Wedding Cake dress! (Jezebel) Kumquat Cupcakery & Liddabit Sweets [...]

Gilt 455 Madison, Ave. NYC. Buy an 11×14 signed high quality giclee print of this comic for $29 (plus $6.50 shipping)! The above comic describes a complimentary tasting.

Here are some of my fave Sweet Links to share from this week: Mac lovers cupcakes! (Cupcakes Take the Cake) Brooklyn Brewery’s Oatmeal Cookie Beer! (Off The Presses) Cinnabon Lip Balm! (Me So Hungry) Milk & Cookies at Kiehl’s! (Fork in the Road / VV) The Cherpumple! (Serious Eats) Pichet Ong at Village Tart! (The [...]

City Sweet Tooth Labs is back, and this time we are testing out some sophisticated equipment!

Here are links to some sweet news for Chelsea this week! Doughnut Plant to open new branch at Chelsea Hotel! More sweets (It’s Sugar and MarieBelle) to join Mari’s at future Limelight Market!

For those who are looking for a (slightly) less guilty indulgence as the year starts, you may want to check out Chelsea’s Cocoa V. A vegan chocolate boutique, their products are vegan, organic, and fair trade (also delicious). A nice way to start 2010!

The cutest cake at the convention, (in my humble opinion). Today I checked out the NY Cake Convention. This event is more for people aspiring to be bakers and professional cake decorators as opposed to eaters. So, no samples (at least none I could see). However there were many lovely cakes submitted for a competition [...]

  This weekend is the NY Cake Convention. Click for details and to buy tickets! NY Cake Convention JANUARY 2–5, 2010 Hotel Penn­syl­va­nia 401 Sev­enth Avenue (at 33rd Street) 18th Floor New York, NY