pumpkin cheesecake

Limoncello Ice Cream Floats

Mini Fruit Pizzas

"the compost cookie, which includes potato chips, pretzels, coffee grounds, oats, graham-cracker crumbs and chocolate and butterscotch chips, tastes like nothing in particular, as if the ingredients canceled out one another"

"I overheard a customer complaining to the counterwoman about the small size of his slice [of the crack pie]. He should have thanked her for saving his life."

"The mantra of excess reaches fruition in the behemoth layer cakes. In one, an unfortunate juxtaposition of chocolate chips and passion-fruit curd conjures a midnight run to the deli for a quart of Tropicana and cookie-dough ice cream, to be devoured on the couch while watching TV. This is cuisine for Harold and Kumar."

"A hefty knish called a volcano disgorges a gloppy mass of potato gratin, molten Gruyère, Mornay sauce, onions and bacon. Despite the high-end ingredients, its beige creaminess brought back queasy memories of my high school cafeteria."