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Flavors: Friday, January 6th
This week was all about catching up on the paperwork I got behind on during the holidays, and I went so hardcore that it feels like my brain is about to shoot out of my eyeballs.
Ugh.
This is bad for funny Tumblr posts. And my eyeballs. I’m going to ask Matt for a joke.
Matt: Did you hear about the new corduroy pillows?!?!? They’re making HEADLINES!
Ugh.
Sorry. That was worse. Let’s just get to flavors so we can all pretend that didn’t just happen.
Clockwise from front: The Bluth, Bea Arthur, Tres Leches, Chai Latte
The Bluth: Chocolate banana cake, chocolate buttercream, roasted walnuts, ganache
Bea Arthur: Black coffee infused chocolate cake, cheesecake buttercream, espresso ganache
Tres Leches: Three milk soaked brown butter cake, dulce de leche buttercream, caramel shards
Chai Latte: Chai cake, mascarpone buttercream, toasted chai spices
Available at:
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge
Aloha Grinds: 77th & 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge
Bagel Schmagel: 76th & 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge
Crespella: 7th Ave off 9th Street, Park Slope
Tazza Cafes: Clark St off Henry AND Henry St off Atlantic, Brooklyn Heights
Court Street Grocers: Court St off Luquer, Carroll Gardens
Eastern District: Manhattan Ave off Eagle, Greenpoint
Brooklyn Standard: Nassau Street off Jewel, Greenpoint
Cake Shop: Ludlow btwn Stanton & Rivington, LES
Battery Place Market: 77 Battery Place, Battery Park City
Brooklyneer: 220 West Houston Street, West Village
Queen City Cupcakes: Patchogue, Long Island
Flavors: 11/11/11
I totally had a long post planned for today since I kinda phoned it in all week (I’m tired- I’m sorry!), plus the Union Square Holiday Market starts up next week, so there’s going to be LOTS more half-assing on this blog between now and the end of the holidays. Buuuutttt…..
TODAY’S 11-11-11!!!!
Maybe it’s lucky or something- I have no freaking clue. What I DO know is that it’s a perfect excuse to post THIS!
If you feel that wasn’t enough, here’s a longer collection of Spinal Tap highlights. It’s Friday- you can probably get away with watching the whole thing without anyone noticing.
And now for the cupcakes! These cupcakes will give you armadillos in your pants!
Clockwise from front: Chai Latte, Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake, Butterbeer, The Breucklen
Chai Latte: Chai spiced cake, mascarpone buttercream, toasted chai spices
Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake: Pumpkin cake, cheesecake buttercream, chocolate fudge dip
Butterbeer: Butterscotch soaked cake, butterscotch buttercream, edible gold dust
The Breucklen: Apple cake, cinnamon caramel buttercream, Good Batch stroopwaffel, cinnamon caramel drizzle
Available at:
Robicelli’s at DeKalb Market: Corner of Flatbush & Willoughby, Downtown Brooklyn
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off Third Avenue, Bay Ridge
Aloha Grinds: 76th and Third Ave, Bay Ridge
Bagel Schmagel: 76th and Third Ave, Bay Ridge
Tazza: Clark Street off Henry AND Henry off Atlantic, Brooklyn Heights
Blue Apron Foods: Union Street off 7th Avenue, Park Slope
Court Street Grocers: Court Street off Luquer, Carroll Gardens
The West: 379 Union Avenue, Williamsburg
Eastern District: Manhattan Ave off Eagle Street, Greenpoint
Brooklyn Standard: Nassau & Jewel, Greenpoint
Cake Shop: Ludlow St btwn Standon & Rivington, LES
Joe Columbia University: West 120th btwn Broadway & Amsterdam, Morningside Heights
Queen City Cupcakes: 62 West Main Street, Patchogue, Long Island
Red Hook Lobster Pound: Van Brunt Street, Red Hook; Brooklyn Flea; Smorgasburg; Roving Food Truck (Whoopie Pies Only)
Flavors: Monday, October 24th
GYAH! After a weekend of closing Madison Square Eats and the Grub Street Food Festival, I fell asleep next to my son’s beds in the middle of a rousing version of “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Now I’ve got 10 minutes to write the Tumblr, get dressed, and run to a food manufacturing conference and try to be charming.
Buy cupcakes! Cupcakes good! Yum yum yum yum!
Clockwise from front: Caramel Apple, Chai Latte, Brandy Alexander, The Duckie
Caramel Apple: Apple cake, salted caramel buttercream, roasted apple
Chai Latte: Chai spiced cake, mascarpone buttercream, toasted chai spices
Brandy Alexander: Chocolate brandy cake, brandy mascarpone buttercream, chocolate dipped brandy snap cookie
The Duckie: Peanut cake, peanut butter pudding, marshmallow buttercream, crushed peanuts *Note- this is the last time you’ll be seeing peanut butter on the menu for a long while as there’s a huge peanut shortage and the price of PB is skyrocketing. So get them NOW!!!*
Available at: Robicelli’s at DeKalb Market: Flatbush Avenue Extension & Willoughby Street, Downtown Brooklyn Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off Third Avenue, Bay Ridge Aloha Grinds: 76th Street and 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge Bagel Schmagel: 76th Street and 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge Crespella: 7th Avenue off 9th Street, Park Slope Tazza: Clark Street off Henry AND Henry Street off Atlantic, Brooklyn Heights Jem: Broadway off Franklin Street, TriBeCa Cake Shop: Ludlow Street btwn Stanton & Rivington, LES Joe Columbia University: W 120th btwn Broadway & Amsterdam, Morningside Heights Queen City Cupcakes (Closed Monday- Flavors for Tuesday): 62 West Main Street, Patchouge, Long Island Red Hook Lobster Pound: 284 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook (Whoopie Pies Only)
Flavors: Friday, September 30
Today, I bought Pajama Jeans.
Go ahead and laugh. I’ve seen the commercial for them about a billion times, and though I was insanely curious, I couldn’t bring myself to order them. Funny thing about women- we’ll wear shoes that contort our feet into unnatural shapes, lifting us 6” into the air and creating the illusion of pointy elf feet, which after years and years leads to chronic pain and permanent disfigurement. We’ll wear pants so tight that if we stand at the wrong angle, we’ll leave nothing to the imagination. We squeeze ourselves into all sorts of “shapewear” that’s so constricting that we can’t eat or have problems breathing. This is all totally normal, and not only that, admirable. But a pair of “pajama jeans”?!?!?! EEEWWWW!!! How lazy can you get, America?!?!
I don’t know why we weren’t born with feet this shape. I can certainly envision the cavemen outrunning vicious bears in a pair of these.
This afternoon, as I was picking up a prescription at Walgreen’s, I saw them in a box in the “As Seen On TV” section and had to touch them. As wonderful as they felt, I still couldn’t commit to buying them, so I just held them and walked around the store for a bit. Then when I was paying for Toby’s medicine, the cashier just grabbed them and rung them up. I wasn’t going to stop him and say “Oh no- I have too much pride to be buying a boxed pair of pants from a pharmacy! I was just carrying them around the store for no good reason except for the fact that I’m a woman and I’m crazy, and if you were one of us that statement would totally have made sense to you!”.
Don’t pretend you haven’t walked around a store with something you’ve secretly wanted before, just to put it back before you checked out. We’ve all done it. And I suppose it was divine intervention that forced me to buy these pants because OH MY GOD THEY ARE SO COMFORTABLE.
I owned it. I went on Twitter and said I bought Pajama Jeans. I’m writing a book, and I think that Pajama Jeans by nature are perfect book-writing attire. They fit better than normal jeans, two guys checked our my ass today, and since I’ve put them on, my writers block has been lifted and I banged out a whole new section of the first draft of the book. I may only wear boxed pharmacy pants for the rest of my life.
But if you guys see me wearing mom-pants or holiday-themed sweater vests, you have total permission to punch me in the face as hard as you possibly can.
Another nice thing about these pants? You can eat as many cupcakes as you’d like without it getting uncomfortable. It’s things like this that make America great.
Clockwise from front: Chai Latte, Brandy Alexander, L’Shanah Tovah, Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
Last Appearance Until Next September!
L’Shanah Tovah: Apple cake, honey vanilla buttercream, roasted apple, honey drizzle
Returning from the vault after two years!
Chai Latte: Chai spiced cake, mascarpone buttercream, toasted chai spices
Brandy Alexander: Chocolate brandy cake, brandy buttercream, chocolate dipped brandy snap cookie
Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake: Pumpkin cake, cheesecake buttercream, chocolate fudge
Available at:
Robicelli’s at DeKalb Market: Corner of Flatbush & Willoughby, Downtown Brooklyn
Robicelli’s at Madison Square Eats: Corner of 25th Street & 5th Avenue, Flatiron District
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off Third Avenue, Bay Ridge
Aloha Grinds: 76th and Third Ave, Bay Ridge
Bagel Schmagel: 76th and Third Ave, Bay Ridge
Crespella: 7th Ave off 9th Street, Park Slope
Blue Apron Foods: Union Street off 7th Avenue, Park Slope
Court Street Grocers: Court Street off Luquer, Carroll Gardens
Flying Saucer Cafe: Atlantic Avenue btwn 3rd Ave & Nevins Street, Boerum Hill
Eastern District: Manhattan Ave off Eagle Street, Greenpoint
Brooklyn Standard: Nassau & Jewel, Greenpoint
Cake Shop: Ludlow St btwn Standon & Rivington, LES
Battery Place Market: 77 Battery Place, Battery Park City
Joe Columbia University: West 120th btwn Broadway & Amsterdam, Morningside Heights
Queen City Cupcakes: 62 West Main Street, Patchogue, Long Island
Red Hook Lobster Pound: Van Brunt Street, Red Hook; Brooklyn Flea; Smorgasburg; Roving Food Truck (Whoopie Pies Only)
