Highly efficient eating

In order to make some more progress on my goal of eating the top 50 treats listed on 7×7.com, I had to do some strategic planning on Saturday when I went to the city.  For lunch, my mom and I headed to the Ferry Building.  After having a delicious porchetta sandwich from Roli Roti, we ventured inside and I first stopped at Miette for their old fashioned chocolate cake with Italian meringue frosting.  You can buy it as an actual cake or as a cupcake.  The cake is probably the best chocolate cake I’ve had.  It’s really moist and has a very rich chocolate flavor.  The frosting wasn’t my favorite, in terms of taste and texture.  It is more gooey and less solid than the usual frostings used for cupcakes.  I prefer the traditional frostings that go on cake.

Old-fashioned chocolate cupcake with italian meringue frosting from Miette

Next, I stopped at Michael Recciuti for some truffles.  I bought a truffle with jasmine tea infused ganache, one with hazelnut, and one called the Peanut Butter Puck.  All three are delicious.  I love chocolates that are infused with tea flavor.  The peanut butter in the Peanut Butter Puck is not super sweet like in Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Chocolate truffles from Michael Recchiuti

There was also a guy sampling these amazing pretzels that are covered in chocolate and toffee chips.  The outside tastes similar to Almond Roca candy.  I had to buy a bag because they were that good.  Apparently, they have also been featured on the Rachel Ray show.  The saltiness of the pretzel and the sweetness of the chocolate and toffee are incredible together.

Finally, for dinner we ate at Townhall.  I had two main reasons for eating there, the buttermilk fried chicken and their butterscotch and chocolate pot de crème dessert, which is on the list.  I was also pleasantly surprised by one of their appetizers.  It is a ham and cheese toast with poached egg.  However, what makes it amazing is the cream sauce they pour over the whole sandwich.  It is super creamy and slightly spicy from the jalapenos.  The butterscotch and chocolate pot de crème is seriously one of the best desserts I have ever eaten and definitely my favorite thing (so far) off the 7×7.com list.  They serve it in a bowl and the bottom layer is chocolate and the top layer is butterscotch.  The consistency is more dense than mousse but it is not heavy.  They serve it with toffee (or maybe butterscotch?) pieces that are covered with chocolate on one side.  I could not stop eating the dessert even though I was beyond stuffed at that point.  This dessert is definitely meant to be shared, but not with too many 😛

Butterscotch and chocolate pot de creme from Townhall

My day in the city was quite successful as I can now check off three more treats from my list of 50 and I had some seriously fantastic food.

#21: Coconut cupcake from Kara’s Cupcakes

What better way to start my 50 Treats mission than with a cupcake?  #21 on the list is a coconut cupcake from Kara’s.  I’ve had Kara’s cupcakes before and I personally like their carrot cake cupcake and their chocolate velvet cupcake.  I never tried their coconut one because coconut is not at the top of my list for favorite foods.  However, I have been missing out because the coconut cupcake is quite fantastic.  For the coconut cupcake, they use a chocolate cupcake with a vanilla (or possibly coconut) buttercream frosting, and the frosting is covered in shredded coconut.  I found it difficult to distinguish whether the frosting is vanilla or coconut because the shredded coconut is all over the frosting.  I like the combination of the chocolate cupcake and the coconut flavor.  I am happy to say that my mission has started off deliciously.

Kara's Coconut Cupcake

It was such a hot day the frosting melted! But it was still good 🙂

Sidenote:  I am currently eating the apple pie that I mentioned in my previous post.  My mother was supposed to have taken it to work today because otherwise, I would not be able to stop myself from eating the rest of it.  But she didn’t take it to work and thus, here I am, stuffing my face with pie.  I told my mom that by not taking the pie to work, it was the same thing as keeping alcohol in the house if I were an alcoholic.