Showing posts with label dessert. food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dessert. food. Show all posts

3/6/14

Get Your Drink and Sweets On

So many of my favorite things (beer, dessert, and the rooftop at Hotel Chantelle) are combining for an awesome event: Beer et Bonne Bouche: A Beer & Dessert Experience is a project of both Braving the Brew and Sugartooth Tours (more to come on them soon hopefully!) with the goal of teaching you how to pair decadent sweets with your favorite pints.


Tickets are $55 per person or $90 per couple and can be purchased here. The event will be held this Tuesday 3/11 at 7:30pm. The rooftop at Hotel Chantelle is one of my favorite places--whimsical and calming, yet trendy and happening. I highly recommend you check it out!

5/13/13

A Little Bite of Heaven

NYC seems to be at the epicenter of new dessert trends. We've seen cupcakes, donuts, macarons and the like come and go and wax and wane. Dylan's Candy Bar is a major tourist destination and I won't even get into some of the magical desserts being served on food trucks these days (cough...Coolhaus...cough...Wafels & Dinges...cough).

I recently had the pleasure of sampling a new dessert item straight out of a Manhattan-based company called Becky's Bites. These bites are an original concoction, almost a mix between a chocolate truffle and a bon bon. They consist of a creamy based filling, rolled in a delicate layer of graham cracker, and are dipped in the finest quality Belgian chocolate, coming in 12 flavors ranging from Apple Pie, Salted Caramel, Cappuccino, Chocolate Covered Strawberry, Peanut Butter & Jelly and many more.


I tried the NY Cheesecake and the Cookies and Cream flavors and it was very hard for me not to eat the entire box in one sitting. They were delivered to my office so where slightly melty by the time they got to my desk, but who really minds a little chocolate all over their fingers, really? After I tried a couple I put them in the freezer and I actually liked the frozen bites better. To be honest I couldn't taste too much difference between the flavors because it almost seemed like the cookies and cream was just NY cheesecake with some chocolate/cookie powder added in. Who really cares though? These little bites were definitely heavenly.

Cookies and Cream and NY Cheesecake Becky's Bites

Cookies and Cream

NY Cheesecake
Boxes come in combinations of 4 ($5.99) or 12 ($15.99) bites and are currently sold at Gentile's Fine Foods and Grace's Marketplace on the Upper East Side. You can customize your packages as holiday or novelty gifts and Becky's Bites also caters.

Becky's Bites provided Awesome In New York with a free box of bites for the purpose of this review.

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