Dessert Blogs

Beverly Hills Cupcakes

The Woodstock of Desserts
In Beverly Hills, California, we spotted Sprinkles Cupcakes, the O.G. gourmet cupcake pushers to the Beverly Hills elite. That’s when I thought to myself, “they’re just cupcakes…or are they??” Ok kids, cue up “Under the Bridge” and enter an alternate world of cake temptation… Something didn’t smell right when we...

We Invented a New Dessert…Help Us Name It

We were trying for fried ice cream, which we’d become familiar with at the sub-par Mexican chain restaurants of our childhoods. I never thought they actually fried the ice cream. I thought they rolled a ball of ice cream around in cereal, nuts and cinnamon to give us that crusty...

Rice to Meet You: NYC’s Boutique Rice Pudding Scene

Rice Pudding USA
In an ultra-hip world of tomorrow, people eat rice pudding for dessert, fuel their cars with Jell-O and burn rounded scoops of ambrosia salad to get high. You can catch a glimpse of this dystopian future in New York’s SoHo neighborhood (well…maybe just the rice pudding bit). New York’s SoHo...

Best King Cake in New Orleans

King Cake
If you’re not eating king cake in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, you’re missing out. Like a lot of things in New Orleans the king cake has an eclectic history. “Who’s your favorite baker?” is a great conversation starter because it’s something any local (and many non-locals) can answer, and...