Petit Fours

Petit Fours

Petit Fours is a cake shop in the West Village. My mom was really excited about going here to get some tiny cakes over spring break so I was happy to take part in it. They are gorgeous, and the selection is good. I was pretty bummed that they didn't have the strawberry shortcake in a petit four. The smallest they had it was a 10 inch 50 dollar cake. The petit fours are five dollars each, so we shared four. We ate them in the order that we were looking forward to them, from least to most.


Peanut Butter & Ganache

We weren't very excited about this one because my mom and I both don't like peanut butter very much. The lady who owns the shop said it is her favorite though, so we decided to try it. But we ate it first because we had low expectations. It turned out to be really good. The filling was the best part. It was sweet and light, and not to peanut buttery. The cake was fine. I thought the ganache was a kind of pain in the ass because once I cut off a bite it would fall off and then I had to eat it with my fingers.


Vanilla Bean Blanc

We were very excited about this, because my mom had been trying to find something to satiate her craving for white cake since Chrismas. Finally, a plain white cake that will be delicious. It wasn't. The cake part was good but the frosting blew. I just wanted some thick, sweet buttercream icing or something. But this was just whipped cream with barely any sugar in it. And the texture was sandy and gritty. We couldn't figure out why... I still have no idea. And there was no extra icing hidden on the inside like there was on all the others. This was bad.


Pure Chocolate

My mom and I love chocolate so we had to have this. The ganache on this one stuck to the cake better. There were several layers of chocolate cake and chocolate icing. I really don't like chocolate cake, but this had enough chocolate otherwise to mask the taste of the cake. It wasn't as spectacular as it could have been, there isn't much else to say.


Chocolate Toffee Obsession

This name is horrible! But the cake was good! It was much more bitter than I thought it would have been, and the toffee just wasn't that good. Also, it had the same gritty texture that the vanilla bean blanc had. But if we were judging on appearance alone, this one takes the cake. And the taste was really pretty good too. The piece of candy on top was interesting, it had little bits of toffee on the inside that tasted like peanuts.

These cakes just weren't that good. I would probably eat the peanut butter and ganache one again... Actually I'd probably eat all of the again, but I wouldn't spend five dollars on a bite size piece of cake from this place again.