Cuvée Bistro & Bar, the restaurant at the Greenporter Hotel on Front Street in Greenport, is a drop-off spot for Toys for Tots. Bring in a new, unwrapped toy, and they’ll give you a voucher for a dessert (with purchase of a main course). Their dessert menu includes, beside tarte tatin, mousse au chocolate, flan au pan and profiteroles.
If you want to indulge your sweet obsessions at home, the Monogram Shop, on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, now sells chocolate-covered macadamia butter brickle. It’s from a candy maker called East Hampton Edibles (not related to Edible East End magazine), and they refer to it as “a little piece of Hamptons heaven.” An 8-ounce bag is priced at $12.95.
The work brickle, by the way, is a variation on brittle, as in breakable or friable, and years before it went upscale in the Hamptons, it was a registered trademark for a candy bar manufactured in the Midwest. I hesitate to call that breaking news, however.