Restaurant/bakery desserts you have been loving?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I might order a pie from Dangerously Delicious Pies.

Especially if they make a southern peach variety.

https://postmates.com/merchant/dangerously-delicious-pies-washington-dc

https://www.yelp.com/biz/dangerously-delicious-pies-washington-2

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes,

OMG sooo good! The Canton location they are super nice.

We like the savory and sweet ones. I don't think we have had a bad one. Some of the sweet ones are very sweet like the Balitimore Bomb. The blueberry, apple, chess pies are all amazing. As are the chicken and steak pies.

Basically we a like all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm super-lowbrow. I love grocery store desserts. Always have. My friends and I go to $300/plate restaurants in D.C....or we used to, but the desserts were always hit or miss for me. And tiny.

But I can go to Giant and get my favorite super chewy, bare bones icing brownies with cosmic sprinkles and be happy.

Not what you were looking for I expect. Good luck in your search.

Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which is your Wegman’s favorite?

[Anonymous]

French Baguette in Bethesda and Rockville has some decent desserts. Bread is their speciality and it's really good for MOCO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which Wegmans cake do you love? We need a birthday cake. We tried their white cake once but hated the frosting. I’m thinking about just the sheet cake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:French Baguette in Bethesda and Rockville has some decent desserts. Bread is their speciality and it's really good for MOCO.

Op here. Oddly I got a bunch of stuff there right before everything went haywire and didn't really like any of it. And all the different stuff I got tasted exactly the same. Didn't try to bread though, only the desserts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm super-lowbrow. I love grocery store desserts. Always have. My friends and I go to $300/plate restaurants in D.C....or we used to, but the desserts were always hit or miss for me. And tiny.

But I can go to Giant and get my favorite super chewy, bare bones icing brownies with cosmic sprinkles and be happy.

Not what you were looking for I expect. Good luck in your search.

Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which is your Wegman’s favorite?

The regular vanilla cake with cannoli cream filling. And whipped cream topping instead of buttercream. It sounds so basic but the cake is so moist and delicious and the cake is just perfect. We have gotten it as a sheet cake for parties and as a small round cake for smaller get togethers.

Everyone asks us where the cake is from and always assume it's from a fancy bakery. They are always surprised it's Wegmans.

Basically I'm not into fancy-I'm into delicious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just today we had a cake from Sweet Teensy and it was incredible. It was the "classic chocolate."

Been looking at the reviews for this place which look quite favorable. Not a fan of just plain chocolate cake but the rest of her her flavors look delicious. Also see she makes a tres leches-that I might have to try!

Going to make her bacon twists for breakfast tomorrow. Looks yum.

[Anonymous]

I almost always like my home baked better.

From dangerously delicious pies, i love their steak pie but find many of their dessert pies too sweet or gloppy.

I’ve had some good things from praline bakery.
I like the almond cake from stellas. I think maybe the fruit tart too but its been a while since i’ve had it.
I know a lot of people hate georgetown cupcakes but i really like their salted caramel cupcake.
And the tres leches cake from guapo’s in bethesda is really good.
I’ll try to think of others, and would love more suggestions. I often find stuff from even fancy bakeries to be too dry or too sweet.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and and Jenny’s cakes in kensington are pretty solid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm super-lowbrow. I love grocery store desserts. Always have. My friends and I go to $300/plate restaurants in D.C....or we used to, but the desserts were always hit or miss for me. And tiny.

But I can go to Giant and get my favorite super chewy, bare bones icing brownies with cosmic sprinkles and be happy.

Not what you were looking for I expect. Good luck in your search.

Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which is your Wegman’s favorite?

The regular vanilla cake with cannoli cream filling. And whipped cream topping instead of buttercream. It sounds so basic but the cake is so moist and delicious and the cake is just perfect. We have gotten it as a sheet cake for parties and as a small round cake for smaller get togethers.

Everyone asks us where the cake is from and always assume it's from a fancy bakery. They are always surprised it's Wegmans.

Basically I'm not into fancy-I'm into delicious

Is this a special order cake?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm super-lowbrow. I love grocery store desserts. Always have. My friends and I go to $300/plate restaurants in D.C....or we used to, but the desserts were always hit or miss for me. And tiny.

But I can go to Giant and get my favorite super chewy, bare bones icing brownies with cosmic sprinkles and be happy.

Not what you were looking for I expect. Good luck in your search.

Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which is your Wegman’s favorite?

The regular vanilla cake with cannoli cream filling. And whipped cream topping instead of buttercream. It sounds so basic but the cake is so moist and delicious and the cake is just perfect. We have gotten it as a sheet cake for parties and as a small round cake for smaller get togethers.

Everyone asks us where the cake is from and always assume it's from a fancy bakery. They are always surprised it's Wegmans.

Basically I'm not into fancy-I'm into delicious

Is this a special order cake?

Yes I think they need 24 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm super-lowbrow. I love grocery store desserts. Always have. My friends and I go to $300/plate restaurants in D.C....or we used to, but the desserts were always hit or miss for me. And tiny.

But I can go to Giant and get my favorite super chewy, bare bones icing brownies with cosmic sprinkles and be happy.

Not what you were looking for I expect. Good luck in your search.

Op here. Interestingly enough Wegmans makes my favorite cake as of right now and it's so cheap. And better than most expensive cakes I've tried. So definitely don't think "low brow" means not tasty in any way. I'm just looking for some general gems some have found and would love to support small and local right now.

Which is your Wegman’s favorite?

The regular vanilla cake with cannoli cream filling. And whipped cream topping instead of buttercream. It sounds so basic but the cake is so moist and delicious and the cake is just perfect. We have gotten it as a sheet cake for parties and as a small round cake for smaller get togethers.

Everyone asks us where the cake is from and always assume it's from a fancy bakery. They are always surprised it's Wegmans.

Basically I'm not into fancy-I'm into delicious

Sounds like we have similar taste, OP. Wegmans vanilla whipped cream cake is my current favorite. Also not a fan of Fresh Baguette, even the bread (for me bread is Bread Furst all the way). I’m trying a Tout de Sweet vanilla cake next week, will post a review.

[Anonymous]

I just had a chocolate budino from Little Pearl on Capitol Hill and it was one of the best restaurant desserts I’ve had in a very long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I might order a pie from Dangerously Delicious Pies.

Especially if they make a southern peach variety.

https://postmates.com/merchant/dangerously-delicious-pies-washington-dc

https://www.yelp.com/biz/dangerously-delicious-pies-washington-2

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes,

OMG sooo good! The Canton location they are super nice.

We like the savory and sweet ones. I don't think we have had a bad one. Some of the sweet ones are very sweet like the Balitimore Bomb. The blueberry, apple, chess pies are all amazing. As are the chicken and steak pies.

Basically we a like all of them.

Dangerously Delicious' savory pies are amazing. But their sweet pies aren't very good. I find some actually inedible. The apple and sweet potato are good but not great. You can make much much better at home.

I've gotten cupcakes from Baked and Wired that were amazing. We've also ordered poptarts from Ted's and cookies from Emelie's along with our takeout dinners and both were really good. Otherwise, I've been baking myself. In normal times, I like the baked goods at Northside Social but I haven't been during the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Birthday 2 from Georgetown cupcakes!
Which I will never have again since I was diagnosed with a severe diary allergy! Do you think if I take two bendaryls I will be ok if I eat it? I haven't touched anything with dairy for months now. Would I really have some kind of a shock reaction now that I eliminated it?