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#OMGDessertGoals 2017: The Yays and the Nays
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#OMGDessertGoals 2017: The Yays and the Nays

I'm posting some of the hits and misses at Dessert Goals I experienced yesterday. I'm a person who loves substance over style. So I'd prefer a well executed sugar cookie to a razzle dazzle dessert with too many elements and not enough follow through. That said there were a handful of vendors at Dessert Goals who suffered from the latter and a few who succeeded. I didn't taste all 21 vendors for various reasons but I think I made a good dent in terms of what was there.

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Dessert Offerings of 2015

In addition to the annual list of readers you know it’s also time for the annual list of desserts I had, the good, the bad, the ugly. And it seems fitting to post it on my birthday! Yay sweets! As you know I like to keep it honest. Life is too short for bad books and bad desserts. 

Sweet Buttons Desserts – This place has been around for about 3 years in the Lower East Side. It’s in walking distances from Sugar Sweet Sunshine and they specialize in small treats. Passionfruit is one of my fave items on dessert and when done well in a tart it can be refreshing and perfect. Sweet Button’s had a great gelatin filling and thick buttery crust with meringue on top that was delectable and worth a winter splurge. I loved it big time. In fact I owe that place a visit.

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Interview with Judy of Silk Cakes (A classically trained pastry chef who makes the best dang icing I've ever tasted.)

I'm stoked that Silk Cakes recently opened in Forest Hills, Queens. Brooklyn and Manhattan tend to get the trendy, new, high-end bakeries but now Queens can add Silk Cakes to the mix as it's second location for specialty cakes and delicious cupcakes.

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