Leske's Bakery

So you find yourself trudging through the Bay Ridge Century 21 and your blood sugar is dropping. You are about to just freak out and smack somebody with an overstock camouflage pair of Sketchers. Walk away. Go two blocks and get yo self something sweet.


Leske's is just filled with great looking pastries. The black and white cookie is cake-like and uses a soft creamy frosting as opposed to the more firm ganache-style some bakeries use.

Cream puff was dreamy.



Info:7612 Fifth Ave.

Donut Plant

It's designer Donuts. One time I went there and there were fangirls from Japan - I think they saw it on a food show. So, yeah, this place has been featured on tv and print a bunch. I'm thankful this shit isn't a huge trend, so I still can gush about this and Portland's Voodoo Donuts because they still are a novelty and quite good. This is a bit more upscale than Voodoo - but sorely lacks the bacon-maple beauty of that spot. What you get here is good donuts made with great ingredients. Expect weekend lines. Loved: vanilla, orange, peanut butter and jelly, tres leches, sunflower, strawberry and dark chocolate. Basically, they are all good.
Sunflower seed donut:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Donut:Eatin':

Dessert Truck Works

About a year ago, the Dessert Truck opened a storefront in the LES. I typically have trouble paying for restaurant desserts, which is strange because I have a serious need to eat desserts on a daily basis. Basically, my shit is dark chocolate and peanut butter. If those two are present, I'm smothering my face in it.

So, here we have a really good dessert place. A couple times a year, I am willing to say, "You know what, let's get a $6 dollar dessert". And, as you can see on the menu, that is what we have here.

























So here we are, drinking coffees and staring at three options, from left to right, the chocolate bread pudding with bacon custard sauce, the molten choc cake and a pistachio bar of some sort.










The bread pudding was a tad out there, due, of course, to bacon flavored custard. I am definitely down with bacon in my dessert. I'd get it again in a sec. I however enjoyed it the most.


















This is the molten chocolate cake. You can't fuck this up, really. You know what you are getting.

And a nice silhouette of pistachio thing. Sorry, no chocolate, it's gonna be hard to get my lovin'.












Hey, it's $6 desserts. If it strikes you, I can't think of many places I'd recommend before this.
The END:

Grubby: Chinatown Ice Cream

It's a must-go.

The "Regular" flavas: Sesame, Ginger, Taro, Green Tea, Zen Butter (sesame/peanut butter), almond cookie, Lychee sorbet, etc.

The "Exotic": Vanilla, Chocolate, Chocolate-Peanut Butter, etc.

Unless you're getting the Choco-peanut butter (Always a top 2 flavor for me, anywhere), stick with the "Regular" if you know what's good for you.

I scream. You scream?