Saturday, July 06, 2002


holiday weekend sends you scampering down to the village for a retro dessert treat from the magnolia bakery, that little spot on bleeker that so quaintly evokes a church bake sale in a small southern town, with kitschy but delicious red velvet cakes towering almost comically tall. . .

only to discover that they are closed! sacrilege! what to do? turn the corner on w. 4th of course, and continue onto mary's off jane, which just happens to be a few doors down from the chocolate bar.

mary's off jane has the same retro cakes, but they're not taken to such crazy heights. there you can get the triple chocolate cake with buttercream chocolate icing, the devil's food cake with buttermilk icing, and yes, that red velvet cake, served here with almond buttercream frosting. it's better than no cake at all. . .

however, i must say, that while the cake itself is very good there, mr. right thinks that the icing just doesn't quite make it. the magnolia is irreplaceable. . .irreproducible, to his mind.

for myself, nothing beats the gotham chocolate cake with ganache and the tiniest scoop of perfect french vanilla ice cream. that slim intense wedge is probably 1/8th the size of a magnolia cake slice, but oh my! the valrhona rush. . .

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