Banana Mille-feuille
This French dessert is made with soft crispy pastry sandwiching banana and a sweet cream in a repeating pattern. On top of all the goodness is a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream with actual grainy vanilla bean still apparent. The sweet cream and banana mixture is also cool in temperature giving you an all encompassing experience.
776 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 535-8800
Cupcakes – $2.75 each
Top Left Clockwise: Green Monster, Super Chocolate, Bananarama, Red Velvet, Movie Matinee, and Lucky Cupcake
Cupcakes from this interestingly named vendor are made with all natural ingredients for those more health conscious individuals. They claimed to use no preservatives, artificial flavors, hydrogenated oils, and trans fat. The cupcakes from Kickass Cupcakes are the most innovative in the Boston area. The mental assurance of more-healthy ingredients sure makes you feel better after eating one or two of these.
Note: Kickass Cupcakes has limited edition cupcakes that change every so often.
Ltd. Edition Green Monster – Chocolate cupcake with a chocolate beer ganache center and Sam Adams Cream Stout frosting
Super Chocolate – Chocolate brownie cupcake topped with bittersweet chocolate ganache and covered with chocolate shavings
Lucky Cupcake – luscious lemon cupcake with white chocolate buttercream and candied ginger, comes with a fortune
www.kickasscupcakes.com
378 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA
Phone: (617) 628-2877
Chocolate Souffle – $7.00
The hard-to-make Chocolate Souffle has raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream to accompany it. It has a crispy crust on top and filling chocolate cream mixture on the bottom. The preferable way to eat this is to break the souffle crust on top and pour the raspberry sauce in and dig into Chocolate Souffle with the vanilla ice cream.
Basement 1, 211 East 43rd Street, New York, NY
Phone: (212) 953-7253
Cupcakes at Lulu’s Bake Shoppe are truly innovative. There are a variety of cupcakes with different ingredients such as peanut butter, butter cream, and marshmallows. One particular cupcakes at the joint that was memorable was the Lulu’s Cupcake. Moist chocolate, important to a good cupcake, and soft melted marshmallow inside.
Update: Lulu’s has closed for an unspecified amount of time due to changes.
227 Hanover Street, Boston, MA
Phone: (617) 720-2200
Sydney’s Sinful Sundae: vanilla ice cream covered with chocolate fudge mixed with roasted coconut and finally topped with whip cream and strawberries
NOTE: This item is no longer on their menu, but some waiters/waitress still know how to make it (so ask)
Updated: Its back on the menu due to customer’s responses.
The roasted coconuts add so much to the texture of the otherwise plain vanilla sundae. This dessert is full of sweetness. If you don’t have much of a sweet tooth or you don’t want to stuff yourself with a big dessert, I recommend sharing with one other person.
720 W. Lake Cook Road, Buffalo Grove, IL
