My friend Eric (who lives currently in Dusseldorf )and I share a fave LA restaurant, Gjelina, so when he was in town a few weeks ago it was a no-brainer to make a reservation there (luckily I got one, not frequently the case). It happened to be the 1st Friday of the month, when there is some sort of food truck fest monthly on Abbott Kinney. Had we known we probably wouldn't have gone, since it took nearly an hour to get there (from Westwood) because of all the heavy traffic accompanying that event. We were seated near the window, and all during my meal, I could see, right across the street, the B Sweet Dessert Truck. I'm not a truck follower so had never heard of it, but I am a huge dessert fanatic (chocolate is my favorite food group!), so I was extremely conflicted, since I had had my heart set on the delicious Gjelina desserts. Eric suggested I have both, so while we waited for our desserts to arrive, I dashed across the street, into the waiting arms of the very friendly proprietors. I was sooo excited at the marvelous array of truly unique and remarkable treats (cupcake in a cup?! Love it! Red velvet truffles on a stick?! Even better!), but being the religious chocoholic that I am, I went for the Sluttiest Brownie (size of a brick, brownie so moist it's almost like brownie pudding, with a cookie bottom and layers of caramel and VEGETARIAN marshmallow----NEVER happens!). I honestly thought I'd died and gone to heaven, and I never thought I'd say this, but none of the Gjelina desserts could hold a candle (sorry Gjelina, you KNOW I adore you!!!). Before leaving Abbott Kinney, I absolutely couldn't resist another visit to purchase another of those incredible brownies to take home (it didn't last too long), along with the red velvet truffles (ditto) and the medallions of raw cookie dough (double ditto). While chatting with Barb, the owner, as she assembled my package of goodies, I happened to mention how I loved Gjelina and that I'd been there for my birthday the week before, to which her response was to gift me with their specialty banana chocolate chip loaf! I was dumbfounded and flabbergasted. I mean, it's a rarity indeed in this town to meet someone who'll give you a birthday gift the minute they meet you.
Needless to say, I took their card and a couple of weeks later ordered some more of those extremely addictive brownies, plus an assortment of cupcakes for myself and my colleagues at Ron Herman. All the desserts disappeared with nary a crumb remaining with alacrity, and were a huge hit. I even shared a couple with some of the other stores, and I was very smugly pleased when the raves came in. One of my co-workers went so far as to say that the cupcake was the best she'd ever had, and I would have to agree. I'm not a huge cupcake fan myself, they tend to be too little for me, I go for the brick-sized brownies or layer cakes, but these cupcakes were truly scrumptious indeed. I was amazed at how good the carrot vegan cupcake was! I'm vegetarian, but tend to avoid vegan desserts because I don't find them as satisfying or delicious as non-vegan ones, but boy is that NOT the case here! I never thought I'd say this, but the vegan carrot cupcake was almost as good as the densely fudgy chocolate one. OK I'm making my mouth water just writing about this! If you find yourself within 100 miles of this truck, run, don't walk there. You'll never regret it....until you have to buy pants a size bigger as a result :-)). read more