Cute Cat Paw Marshmallow

I see this adorable cute cat paw marshmallow instruction online.  The marshmallow itself is cute and you can use it with your coffee or hot chocolate.

Ingredients:
A. Corn starch
B. Gelatine 2 pieces
C. Egg white 54g, caster sugar 20g, lemon juice 3-4 drops
D. Caster sugar 74g, maltose syrups 94g, water 42g

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Hoosier Mama Pie

One of the best pies you can find in Chicago, and they sold out fast!

1618 West Chicago Avenue  Chicago, IL 60622

(312) 243-4846

 Website

 Banana Cream Pie, creamy and rich in banana taste:

 Chocolate Chess Pie:

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Balena Restaurant

Love their pasta there and the desserts as well!

1633 North Halsted Street  Chicago, IL 60614

(312) 867-3888

Website

Mozzarella Basil Tomato Pizza:

 Tagliolini Nero Crab Sea Urchin Pasta:

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Slurping Turtle

Let's have a detour from NewYorkCity and stop by Chicago!
Just like NYC, Chicago has so many neighborhood gems that you don't want to miss!

Slurping Turtle is one my favorite food stops!  The meats are so flavorful and the noodle and soup base taste absolutely fantastic!

116 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL
(312) 464-0466
Website 



Pork Belly Snack

 Miso Ramen:

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Chocolate de Tomato

Saw this in a Japanese Supermarket... would you like to try it?!

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Spot Dessert Bar

It is one of the neighborhood germs in St. Mark's Place and known for its famous Green Tea Tiramisu and Green Tea Chocolate Lava Cake.  Store also serves delicious cupcakes and different flavor macaroon.

Chocolate Green Tea Lava

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Magnolia Bakery

Have you tried their banana pudding?  It's heaven!

 Look at that big piece of banana!  Absolutely delicious!
Magnolia Bakery has many locations in NYC, this one is in the food court level of the Grand Central 42nd station.  If you are traveling to NYC and stop by the station for transfers, check out the food court at lower level!

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Cake & Cookie Decorating

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Marie Belle

Ready for some sweet treat in SoHo?
Turn to this little chocolate shop.  It doesn't just sell delicious chocolate, it also sells very special gelato and sorbet!

I am having the Lavender gelato, Rose patel gelato and Chocolate with Italian hazelnut flavor.  They taste GREAT~5 Yummy stars~~

 

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Kyotofu - Spring 2011

Some seasonal treats from Kyotofu :P

Raspberry tofu cheesecake

Strawberry anmitsu (strawberry agar, yude azuki, matcha shiratama, caramel
with vegan strawberry lychee sorbet)

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Minamoto Kitchoan

Some seasonal flavors - Kuridaifuku and sakura-daifuku

Sakuramochi, 1st time ate a sakura flower, it's salted.

The white peach jelly unlike any other jelly, watery and savory

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Popbar

Came out a play and had this gelato on a stick as a late night snack~ :P

The pistachio popbar with chocolate dip and coconut

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Lady M Cake Botique

Little overpriced.

The signature Lady M Mille Crepe

Chestnut flavor cake

The Caramel

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Babycakes

What makes cupcake different from one another? What makes Babycakes' cupcake so delicious?

The frosting is so smooth, and the best part is it's not super sweet! Babycakes offer gluten free cupcakes as well. At the moment I don't know what gluten is, however, I think I am so blessed that I don't need to know what gluten is.

The awards and my half eaten Lemon cupcake :P

The store counter.

Babycakes (map)
248 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002

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Happy Holidays

I am having hotpot with families this Christmas.  We don't have a tradition to celebrate, but my cousin is so nice to buy a cake. :)

I haven't tried Paris Baguette's cake/bread before, although they look REALLY delicious. This special Christmas cake (coffee flavor) is a little dry and not as fresh (soft) as I imagine... Wonder how their signature cheese cake tastes like...

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Kyotofu - Fall 2010

Do what you love and love what you do ..^‿^..

Kyotofu updates some of their menus for the season. Like the pumpkin and chestnut flavors on some desserts (yeah... it was way back to the Halloween)

However! Their famous cupcake (with variety of flavors) is all-year-round.

I get the green tea cupcake, which comes with a green tea & pumpkin flavor ice cream and some jam-like berries. The pumpkin flavor ice cream is quite special, although it kind of taking away the spotlight of the main character - green tea cupcake.

Then there is this Anmitsu. Azuki red bean, greatfruit agar and coffee agar, shiratama dango & kinako ice cream (there are choices between kinako ice cream and coconut ice cream) Since we don't know what kinako is, we pick the one we don't know ;P [from wiki: Kinako, aka soybean flour, is a product commonly used in Japanese cuisine. Kinako is produced by finely grinding roasted soybeans into powder] The first taste is weird, then it gets better :)

I also want to try their macaroon. Today the trio are Double Chestnut, Strawberry & Sesame. Sesame taste really good, crunchy out and chewy in. Strawberry is jelly inside. Chestnut however... can't taste much of chestnut.

A nice way to spend half of my afternoon. ..^‿^..

Kyotofu (map)
705 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
(212) 974-6012

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Dessert Club Chikalicious

Let's have something healthier than chocolate!
Chikalicious now have the Snowlicious with different flavors.


My favorite - the Green tea deluxe with azuki bean. The motcha flavor is very original ♥ And there is cream in the center, little surprise


Here is my little blue Christmas tree, I mean blue-raspberry flavored snowlicious. This is rather plain compare to the Green tea deluxe. :/


Next the rose macaron, completely sensational!! The aroma of rose spills into your mouth every bite. Can't wait to try their other flavors next time ♥


The cupcakes I didn't get to try this time, but also look very tempting!


Dessert club Chikalicious (map)
204 East 10th Street
New York, NY 10003

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City Bakery

The chocolate drink that taste like no others!
The best yet, it's served cold (finally finally!! )


The hot one is good but not for summer, summer should have this frozen hot chocolate!
Taste so different than Max Brenner, and much thicker than Serendipity.
You won't go back to the regular hot chocolate after having this!


Large and comfortable place to chill ヽ( ≧▽≦)ノ

City Bakery (map)
3 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011

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Bruno's Bakery

Tons of desserts! This was my 1st impression to this place and always be.
I have tried many of their famous desserts before, if I have time, I will go back and write about them. For now I will just write about what I had this time. :P


This was Coconut Mousse with a groundcherry on top. Some people maybe familiar with groundcherry, but this was my first time having it (and knowing it's eatable)! Sometimes I see pictures of this cute little thing hanging inside a dried five-sided pod, and always think this is one of most interesting plants on the planet! Oh, the mousse itself was soft & delicious too! ^^


An Italian Cheesecake! If an American cheesecake is meant to be soft, this Italian Cheesecake is dry. The first bite would be "er.. what's this?", but then as you had the 2nd bite, you would start liking it! It had its own special taste~ Like it too!

Bruno's Bakery
(map)
506 Laguardia Pl
New York, NY 10012

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Kyotofu

I have always been looking for dessert places to hang-out :P
This is not only a dessert place, but a Japanese style dessert place!


This is the Dessert omakase (assortments) of 5, find more details in Read more. (｡◕‿◕｡)


I would say, you can't go to a Japanese dessert place without ordering a matcha drink! It's refreshing ≧▽≦


Here came the 1st little piece - vegan valrhona chocolate cake.
I think they call the cream part vanilla bean paste, it's not ice cream, but mix perfectly with the chocolate cake (`･ω･´)


Pettie green tea brulee, the good thing about these assortments is you get to try more, but ... they are so so small.. (-_ -a)


The signature sweet tofu, with kuromitsu syrup on top, taste pretty much like pudding with a lighter flavor. The little piece was a dry pineapple.


The passion fruit macarons. Delcicous~


Tada~ here came my favorite of the day! The green tea fudge. Rich rich green tea flavor with rich mouthfeel! Daisuki! ヽ( ≧▽≦)ノ



Then there was soymilk soft ice cream sundae with matcha mochi. After all the wonderful pettie dessert, the sundae was not as impressive, it felt like a normal soft ice cream


The white sesame cake could be more delicious if I hadn't ate all the goodies before >__<
To end this sweet delightful afternoon, there 2 small flower cakes that came with the check, chewy and yummy ♥

Kyotofu's website (map)
705 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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