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I love food, I love cooking, and I love all things New York City. Email me at leslie@mynyplate.com for dining ideas or recipes.

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This is a dark picture of desserts we had the other night at Peels. I didn’t love them, so I feel like you should know about it. I do love Peels, so this broke my heart - but desserts seem like an afterthought at Peels, or at least the items we tried. I know they have a lot of baking-centric items like buiscuits and croissants and other delicious items on their brunch menu, but I’m not sure if those are all baked in-house or not. Anywhoo, on the left is the sundae, which, I’m not kidding, is a jar halphazardly filled with ice cream, hard chunks of chocolate, some peanut butter, and a broken up sourdough pretzel. Delicious, but like, what? For $10? On the left is the s’mores cake which came with an ice-cold marshmallow swirl on top that appeared to have been toasted at some point. The cake was dry and tasteless, and then leaned up against it was a single graham cracker that you essentially had to break with your spoon, and balance on the spoon while carving into the hard marshmallow and cake in order to get a bite resembling a real s’more. That said, we ate them (obviously), but it made me feel like such a number. Just another guest plowing through that they have to slam down some dessert in front of. I hate to knock Peels, so do tell me - was anyone else totally let down by their desserts recently?

This is a dark picture of desserts we had the other night at Peels. I didn’t love them, so I feel like you should know about it.

I do love Peels, so this broke my heart - but desserts seem like an afterthought at Peels, or at least the items we tried. I know they have a lot of baking-centric items like buiscuits and croissants and other delicious items on their brunch menu, but I’m not sure if those are all baked in-house or not. Anywhoo, on the left is the sundae, which, I’m not kidding, is a jar halphazardly filled with ice cream, hard chunks of chocolate, some peanut butter, and a broken up sourdough pretzel. Delicious, but like, what? For $10? On the left is the s’mores cake which came with an ice-cold marshmallow swirl on top that appeared to have been toasted at some point. The cake was dry and tasteless, and then leaned up against it was a single graham cracker that you essentially had to break with your spoon, and balance on the spoon while carving into the hard marshmallow and cake in order to get a bite resembling a real s’more.

That said, we ate them (obviously), but it made me feel like such a number. Just another guest plowing through that they have to slam down some dessert in front of. I hate to knock Peels, so do tell me - was anyone else totally let down by their desserts recently?

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Thursday, January 12th 2012 1:57pm