Strawberry Shortcake Vanilla Bean Soft Serve Special at Dessert Club, ChikaLicious

Date September 19, 2011

Dessert Club ChikaLicious

The great conundrum for every serious food lover: Do you reveal the little places you love at the risk of making it that much harder to get in yourself? Well life is about sacrifices, and fortunately for me, the biggest I’ve had to make are connected to this blog. Without further adieu, I reveal the East Village’s Dessert Club, ChikaLicious. If you’ve been searching for something sweet south of 14th Street and it hasn’t yet taken you here, you’ve been spinning your wheels. Everything is delicious. Read on for my top picks and an explanation of what you’re looking at above.

Dessert Club ChikaLicious

The chocolate chip cookies ($1.50) are thin and chewy, filled with melty dark chocolate and surrounded by a crisp edge. By far the best in the East Village. The S’mores cupcake ($2.85) features graham cracker-flavored cake filled with chocolate ganache all topped with housemade marshmallow fluff, pre-torched for good measure. The real star, however, is the housemade vanilla bean soft serve ice cream (Small $3.50, Large $4.50). It puts Carvel to shame. It takes many shapes and forms: between two cookies ($5.95), inside a halved eclair shell topped with chocolate sauce ($4.95) and affogoto, topped with a shot of espresso and chocolate pearls ($5.95), to name a few. The newest incarnation, the Strawberry Shortcake soft serve ($6.95), is a special; how long it will last is unknown. It mixes oversized crumbs of pound cake and thinly sliced strawberries with vanilla bean soft serve and it’s all made to order. Go get some now and have your own conundrum.

Dessert Club, ChikaLicious Link 204 East 10th Street b/t 1st & 2nd Ave
(212) 475-0929 Open Daily Mon-Fri: 1pm – Midnight, Sat: Noon – midnight,
Sun: Noon – 11pm