3/16/10 Bouchon

3/16/10
Met up with friends at Bouchon Bakery today for lunch. I had the grilled cheese with tomato soup. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture, but my lunch was quite good. The soup was light, while the sandwich was hot and crusty. I only wish that the Gruyere were slightly stronger and that the plate would be balanced with a small salad.

Dede and I shared profiteroles.The dark chocolate sauce with vanilla ice cream encased in choux pastry puffs. They came with the pitcher of chocolate sauce on the side so you could control how much chocolate goodness you wanted drizzled over the profiteroles.

that small pitcher of warm chocolate sauce … I drizzled a little for the picture, but you can be assured I didn't let the chocolate sauce go to waste =)

3/15/10 Big Booty Bread

3/15/10
This day marked the first food exploration of spring break. We met up with a high school friend of mine who requested cupcakes. I wanted to search for cupcakes outside of those few well-known, over-rated cupcake stores in NYC. I came upon a blog that recommended the red-velvet cupcakes from Big Booty Bread.

The cake part itself was just okay, slightly dry, but the cream cheese frosting was divine. I’m not usually a fan of frosting, I find it usually too sweet, but this frosting was just right. My friend and I agreed that the perfect red-velvet combination would be the frosting from Big Booty Bread and the cake from Bake My Cake. I even got a cup full of frosting to go! =D


We also had the guava booty bread at Big Booty Bread, had to try their booty bread which the bakery was named for. It was soft, pillow-y and sweet and reminded me of sweet Chinese buns.