By Nastassia on December 13, 2011
It has been a busy busy last few days! Between the Eat My Blog Charity Bake Sale, Artisanal LA Holiday Pop-Up Shop and work I haven’t had a moment to myself. And while I did bake muffins on Monday to share with all of you, I had no time to post about them. But rather [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged blue corn muffins, Chef John Sedlar blue corn muffins, muffin mondays, Playa Rivera restaurant |
By Nastassia on November 28, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you enjoyed a wonderfully overindugent weekend as I did in Colorado. Pie after pie after pie, I’m never really pumpkin’d out. However, when I’m not in the mood for pie (which – trust me – rarely happens) but am in the mood for pumpkin, I move on to the next [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged Pumpkin Ice Cream, Pumpkin Ice Cream Los Angeles, Sweet Rose Creamery |
By Nastassia on November 17, 2011
Sometimes you just want a big ol’ ice cream sundae. And by you, I mean me. Rather than pick some Haagen-Dazs from the market as I so often do, I decided to have an impromptu sundae date. Yes, a sundae date. I texted my pal Adriana to see if she was interested in meeting me [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged 101 Coffee Shop, banana split, best ice cream sundaes in LA, brownie waffle sundae, ice cream sundaes |
By Nastassia on November 9, 2011
There is something so satisfying about pie. I began my love affair with it as a young child who frequented Marie Calendar’s. Remember Marie Calendar’s? Or Baker’s Square? I think there are a few of them left scattered about the suburbs. I remember the excitement I had when I knew we were going to pick [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged apple pie, Best Apple Pie in LA, Jones in Hollywood |
By Nastassia on October 26, 2011
Desserts for dinner? Yes, I did that (again). And it was delicious. Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited to a very special dessert date at the recently opened LA outpost of NY’s popular Fig & Olive. My date for the evening was the lovely Lynn of The Actor’s Diet. We started off our [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged Apple Tart, Chocolate Souffle, Dessert at Fig & Olive, Dessert Crostini, Desserts in Los Angeles, Fig & Olive Restaurant, Mango Sorbet, Raspberry Sorbet |
By Nastassia on October 19, 2011
Sometimes you find the most sensational desserts at the most unassuming of places. On a visit to the elusive Macallan £10 bar, located above Scarpetta at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, I was excited to get the opportunity to enjoy beautifully hand-crafted Macallan cocktails. Our bartender prepared an off the menu cocktail that suited [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged caramel budino, Macallan £10 Bar Beverly Hills, Macallan £10 budino, sweet in LA, where to find to find budinos in LA |
By Nastassia on September 7, 2011
While I have my go-to coffee and sweets shop in my neighborhood (The Village Bakery), there is another local gem that tugs at my heartstrings – Proof Bakery. Proof Bakery is a small and quaint coffee shop with a dangerously delicious selection of pastries. Located on a stretch of Glendale Blvd. in Atwater Village that [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged almond croissant, atwater village, croissant, flourless chocolate tart, pavlova, Proof Bakery |
By Nastassia on August 25, 2011
They were nothing to write home about. There I said it. I know a lot of people out there are going to completely disagree with me since the Donut Man in Glendora seems to be loved to mythic proportions, but I just wasn’t that impressed. After much planning and anxious anticipation, a few close [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged Donut Man Glendora CA, donuts LA, fresh peach donuts, fresh strawberry donuts, tigertail donut |
By Nastassia on August 4, 2011
Culina Modern Italian is a fresh new enoteca occupying a beautiful indoor/outdoor corner of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. The kitchen is run by chef Victor Casanova, with the pastries overseen by Pastry Chef Federico Fernandez. On a recent visit with my good friend Julie I got the opportunity to enjoy the entire [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged afogato, beverly hills desserts, culina modern italian, four seasons, italian dessert, panna cotta, profiteroles, rice cloud, tiramisu |
By Nastassia on May 4, 2011
There are certain occasions that call for cake. I have two such occasions: today is my birthday and I am celebrating my 2 year blogiversary! My blog turned 2 years old on April 22nd and I was so busy (presumably eating sweets) that I completely missed it. Since I’m having cake already I might as [...]
Posted in Sweets in LA | Tagged Ace of Cakes, animal restaurant, bacon chocolate crunch bar, cardamom pistachio cake, Charm City Cakes, Duff Goldman, LA Times Book Festival, Let Me Eat Cake, pumpkin chocolate chip cake, sorbet |
