Antoinette's Sweets

5981 Transit Road, Depew, NY - (716) 684-2376

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Posted By Michael Stern on February 15, 2012 10:56 AM

Buffalo is one of the best cities in America to eat chocolate candy and ice cream. In the capital of what one local chocolatier called The Sponge Belt (Syracuse to Erie), sponge candy is the headline grail among such pieces de resistance as cashew-crowded Charlie Chaplin logs, molasses pops, nut barks and non pareils. One of the very best places to sample the city's chocolate-and-ice-cream bounty is Antoinette's Sweets. (Actually, Antoinette's is TWO of the best places; there is another location in West Seneca at 1203 Union Road. The phone there is 716-675-3981.)

Merely walking in the door is intoxicating. The air is perfumed with chocolate; glass cases are filled with masterfully made candies of every shape. And oh, the ice cream! Here are some of Buffalo's most handsome sundaes (which western New Yorkers know as frappes): homemade syrups and sauces arrayed atop ice cream in tall tulip glasses or banana split boats. At the West Seneca location, the ice cream is locally-made Nick Charlap's, which is rich and deep but in no way over-the-top (meaning it is well-suited for sundaes with multiple scoops).

Antoinette's hot fudge is so much more about the flavor and luxe of cocoa butter than sugar that you want to call it savory. It is especially profound when sharing space with fragile marshmallow sauce. If hot fudge is too fudgy, you can get an alternative sauce that Antoinette's calls French chocolate pudding – cool, silk-smooth and thick enough to eat with a fork. To adorn sundaes, Antoinette's skilled scoopers use a pastry bag to pipe on freshly whipped cream which is nothing more and nothing less than that: pure cream whipped enough to add heavy billows of unsweetened luxury.

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Classic Sundae

Old Time Sundae

Frappe

Sponge Candy

Charlie Chaplin

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