On the surface, buying an ice cream cake for a birthday party sounds innocent enough. Some may even have fond thoughts of childhood parties with the cooling sugary finale (for me, it was trips to the Carvel store in West Chester, Pennsylvania). But when you stop and think about what it means for me to have bought an ice cream cake today (or two days ago), it might dawn on you that there's really only one place to buy such a confection in Carroll Gardens. And then it might dawn on you that I've
often wished that Dunkin' Donuts not make my neighborhood its home. But dammit if Baskin-Robbins (nee Dunkin' Donuts) doesn't make a kick-ass ice cream cake! I'm an especially big fan of the "icing" they use to write the letters on top--it's semi-transparent, and has a texture unique unto itself. I suppose that once every six months won't make or break a business.
WHOA WHOA WHOA!! You served us ice cream cake from there without telling us where it came from first!?!?! That's it, I am getting my stomach pumped now. THANKS A LOT! ;)
Traitor! No one says a boycott would be easy. Why not just gorge yourself on grapes and wash it down with non fair trade coffee. The stomach ache would serve you right. When I walk by "that place" I don't even look at it and if I accidently do I then stare straight into the eyes of the saint statue and beg for forgiveness. You make me sick.
I think personal floggings are in order..
what? no picture of the offending cake? and its precision-cut squares?
someone has my computer. it will be uploaded soon.
You are obviously not from here. You haven't lived until you've had a Cookiepuss.
If you want to avoid the guilt, my birthday cake services are available any time ;) :P Although I do not have the means to provide the infamous $80 home made ice cream cake right now, I do have some other ideas :) I don't know what I could do about the transparent frosting though...possibly that cheap gel stuff they sell at supermarkets?
Another Chester County, PA transplant I see.
Ice Cream cakes are usually better looked at than eaten unfortunately...
horrible, horrible, but when someone pointed out that the DnD that just ate my favorite restaurant is now the only place serving ice cream in Greenpoint...well I knew I would eventually give in like you did.
Ice cream's not playing fair. (Fudgy the whale and it's rotated twin santa were the stars of carvel in my mind.)
Or you could have gone to the Ben and Jerry's on Atlantic near Clinton, you sell-out yuppie.
Nope, would've melted.. we're not in Cobble "Yuppie" Hill
Greenpoint has a Hershey's store on Manhattan Avenue they serve a really good birthday cake the regular kind and sugar free and for kids they do some really cute superhero stuff and barbie stuff and for donuts please go to Peter Pan Donuts on Manhattan Ave its close to Eckerd. Those are the best.
Carvel's greatest creations were, in order:
1. Cookie O'Puss for St. Patrick's Day
2. Father's Day Tie Cake
3. Fudgie the Whale
Their ice cream is foul, but I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Cookie Puss and the Whale. A combination of the little cookie bits and memories of Frank's (?) gravly old voice on the tv and radio when I was growing up.
Wait, it was your birthday?? HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!! Hope you had a fantastic day.
Court Pastry has great ice cream cakes, three sizes, the lovely 16 year old guidettes working there will write whatever you want on them, and they are pretty cheap. they have them premade ,they keep em in the freezer, so you would have to wait a half houur for them to thaw... enough time to get to another neighborhood safely...
Trivia moment: CookiePuss and Fudgie the Whale are made from the same mold. I believe Fudgie is Cookiepuss turned sideways.
I couldn't help myself.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Puss
"Cookie Puss is the name of the collectively raised and cared-for cat who lives at the New York City community center ABC No Rio. Cookie Puss is known for being an especially social cat who will occasionally wander downstairs to check out the weekly Hardcore Matinees."
Hardcore Punkrock and Cookie Puss mentioned in the same sentence?
My irony blade finally has a straight edge.