Debbie Does Doberge at Bakery Bar
Sweet Potato Pie Doberge Slice
Turtle Doberge Slice
Rainbow Wedding Cake Doberge Slice
Velvet Elvis Doberge Bite, Bloody S’mores Doberge Bite, Fig and White Chocolate Doberge Bite
One of those “why didn’t someone think of this sooner?” situations, where a simple conversation hatched a business plan that somehow found an audience, Debbie Does Doberge is owned by the team of Charlotte McGehee and Charles Mary, their take on New Orleans’ classic layer cake previously sold only by pre-order now offered by the slice at the couple’s “Bakery Bar.”
Surely an interesting idea, the former dive at 1179 Annunciation Street just beneath the Pontchartrain Expressway reinvented as a place for “Sweets and Drinks” from before noon until midnight daily, Bakery Bar initially opened as the official point-of-sales for Debbie Does Doberge in April 2016 and now joined by a limited selection of savories the small corner-store has officially caught fire, the space nearly 2/3 full at the time of our Thursday 4:00pm arrival.
Far more appealing in appearance than the pudding cake from Joe Gambino’s, the texture also better with smooth Buttercream dividing soft layers as stiffer, boiled Icing helps each wedge hold its form, Ms. McGehee follows a modified version of the Hungarian Dobos Torta recipe ‘invented’ by Beulah Ledner during the Great Depression in building her creations, a half-dozen or more flavors offered daily by slice or as small pyramidal ‘bites’ for the indecisive.
Making difficult decisions to maximize variety, three slices and a trio of bites shared amongst the group, even the most ardent descendent of Hungary would be hard-pressed to claim “Debbie’s” cakes anything short of excellent, the Rainbow-themed Wedding Cake as sweet as it was colorful while the “Sweet Potato Pie” was completely opposite the heavy Southern Classic in terms of texture, though the flavor was precisely like it.
Having just passed Halloween, “Bloody S’mores” both Cocoa-rich and nicely accented with Cinnamon at the same time, equally complex pairings were found amidst the Peanut Butter and Banana bite as well as the White Chocolate coated Figgy Pudding, the best of the best nonetheless agreed upon by all as the Pecan-studded Milk-Chocolate slice with lightly salted Caramel.
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