Darth Vader

This groom's cake was the perfect wedding surprise for a Darth Vader fan!

Happy Thanksgiving!

With Thanksgiving tomorrow, we thought this fall wedding cake was perfect for Weddings Wednesday today!

This cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream and decorated with fabric ribbon and our champagne dot design. It was then finished with a variety of fall toned buttercream flowers in a beautiful cascade.


Forget to place a Thanksgiving order? Stop by our store today and there will be a variety of holiday desserts available for purchase! We will have pies, cakes, white chocolate pumpkin cheesecakes and much more available while supplies last, including these festive cookies:

We will be CLOSED Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th so that our staff can celebrate Thanksgiving with their families.

Thanksgiving Orders

Today is the last day to place your Thanksgiving orders and guarantee your selections for pick-up on Wednesday, November 24th. We are open until 2pm today, so call or stop by and get your order in! If you miss the deadline and don't get an order in, don't worry! There will be a selection of pies, cakes, pastries, cookies and other holiday desserts available for purchase in our retail store on the 24th as well!

Thanksgiving Specials

Maple Pumpkin Mousse Cake
6” $22, 8” $30, 10” $40
Moist, tender pumpkin cake layered with maple mousse. Finished in vanilla buttercream and our autumn leaf design.

Caramel Apple Cake
6” $25, 8” $34, 10” $48
Vanilla chiffon cake layered with creamy caramel mousse and fresh, sliced apples, seasoned with cinnamon & ginger. Our autumn version of the Fresh Strawberries & Cream cake.

White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
6” serves 6-8 $19, 8” serves 8-12 $28, 10” serves 15-20 $36
Back by popular demand!!! Creamy pumpkin cheesecake with a ginger molasses crust, finished with white chocolate cream topping & fresh whipped cream.

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tart 
8” (serves 6-8) $21, 10” (serves 10-12) $27
Pecans and caramel in a shortbread crust, finished with chocolate mousse & chocolate dipped pecans.

Rustic Apple Tart
9” (one size only serves up to 16) $18.50
A deep-dish tart brimming generously with fresh locally grown apples topped with brown sugar oatmeal streusel crumble.

Pear & Cranberry Galette
9” (one size only serves up to 16) $18.50
A free-form tart filled with crimson cranberries & pears mellowed with a sweetened cream filling and baked inside a flaky crust.

Lemon Meringue
8” (one size only serves 12) $21
Buttery shortbread crust, fresh, tart lemon curd & fluffy meringue.

Cappuccino Buzz Bombe
6” (one size only) (serves 8-12) $19
Chocolate cake layered with milk chocolate espresso mousse & a lightened vanilla cream center. This dome-shaped dessert is finished in chocolate ganache & decorated with cocoa nibs & chocolate cigarettes.

Gingerbread Roulade
16” (one size only) (serves 8 -16) $20
This delicious, tender gingerbread cake is filled with a light & fluffy cream cheese filling, and then rolled to create the roulade. Garnished with fresh whipped cream and confectioner’s sugar.

Pies
9” (one size only) (serves 6 to 8 generously, up to 12)
Like all of our desserts, our pies are made fresh, by hand, from scratch, using premium ingredients.
Traditional Pumpkin $14.00
Maple Pecan $14.50
Chocolate Mousse $14.00
Double Crust Apple $15.00
Blueberry $15.00

Please be aware that we will be CLOSED Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th so that our employees can celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. All Thanksgiving orders must be placed for pick-up on Wednesday, November 24th. We will be open regular store hours, from 9am - 6pm, on that Wednesday the 24th.

Call us or stop by the store today to place your order before it's too late!

*Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.*

Paris in Springtime

They say there's no place like Paris in springtime. It's definitely not springtime here in New England, but today's Featured Friday cake is a great representation of Paris in the spring.

The Eiffel Tower and tulips were hand-made out of rolled chocolate, and the rest of the design of the cake was all done using colored buttercream frosting!

Daisy Lace

We love when couples share professional photos of their wedding cake with us. Ashley & Wayne are one of those couples who were kind enough to share some of their professional photos of their wedding cake, and it looks even more beautiful at their wedding reception at The Villa than it did in our kitchen!

 Photo by Black Thumb Studio

 Photo by Black Thumb Studio

Their cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream and had our intricate daisy lace design on the sides, all hand-piped! A pink, rolled chocolate package bow with a pearl finish sat on top as the perfect topper!

White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

Today's Tasty Tuesday treat is our White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake! This creamy, pumpkin cheesecake has a ginger molasses crust and is finished with white chocolate cream topping, fresh whipped cream and white chocolate shavings! 

One of our most popular fall items, this dessert is available in an individual serving size, as well as a larger 6", 8" and 10" size. 

Some of these delicious cheesecakes are available in our retail store for your last minute dessert needs, however, we recommend that you place an order at least 3 days in advance to guarantee availability of a certain size.

Individual - $3.85

6" (serves 6-8) - $19

8" (serves 8-12) - $28

10" (serves 15-20) - $36

Stop by our retail store today to pick up an individual size as a treat for yourself, or get your order in for Thanksgiving now so your whole family can enjoy it!

*Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.*

Baby Shower Inscription

We see many different cake inscriptions for baby showers, but this one is one of the cutest! We've created the cake in many different color combinations too, and it always comes out adorable!

A cute button nose, a sweet little smile...

A baby girl's coming in just a short while!

The bottom tier of this cake is frosted in vanilla buttercream, and has a brown rolled chocolate band and pink & blue rolled chocolate applique polka dots. The top tier is frosted in blue vanilla buttercream, and has a scalloped, brown, rolled chocolate band, with a brown, rolled chocolate bow on top.

White & Ivory

Recently, we created white and ivory wedding cakes for both Wendy & Patrick and Sandra & Steven.

Wendy & Patrick's cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream frosting, and decorated with a variety of rolled chocolate and gumpaste flowers in white and ivory.

Sandra & Steven's cake was covered in a rolled chocolate covering, featuring rolled chocolate swags, custom designwork, horizontal pleating, and a variety of white and ivory rolled chocolate and gumpaste flowers.

Thanksgiving Specials

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so today we're sharing all the information you need to place your Thanksgiving order!

We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 25th and the day after Thanksgiving - Friday, November 26th. All Thanksgiving orders should be placed for the day before Thanksgiving - Wednesday, November 24th. We will be open regular hours, from 9am-6pm, on that Wednesday the 24th. All orders for pickup on Wednesday, November 24th must be placed by Sunday, November 21st to guarantee selection. However, there will also be a variety of items available in our retail store, for your last minute dessert needs.

Thanksgiving Specials

Maple Pumpkin Mousse Cake
6” $22, 8” $30, 10” $40
Moist, tender pumpkin cake layered with maple mousse. Finished in vanilla buttercream and our autumn leaf design.

Caramel Apple Cake
6” $25, 8” $34, 10” $48
Vanilla chiffon cake layered with creamy caramel mousse and fresh, sliced apples, seasoned with cinnamon & ginger. Our autumn version of the Fresh Strawberries & Cream cake.

White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
6” serves 6-8 $19, 8” serves 8-12 $28, 10” serves 15-20 $36
Back by popular demand!!! Creamy pumpkin cheesecake with a ginger molasses crust, finished with white chocolate cream topping & fresh whipped cream.

Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tart 
8” (serves 6-8) $21, 10” (serves 10-12) $27
Pecans and caramel in a shortbread crust, finished with chocolate mousse & chocolate dipped pecans.

Rustic Apple Tart
9” (one size only serves up to 16) $18.50
A deep-dish tart brimming generously with fresh locally grown apples topped with brown sugar oatmeal streusel crumble.

Pear & Cranberry Galette
9” (one size only serves up to 16) $18.50
A free-form tart filled with crimson cranberries & pears mellowed with a sweetened cream filling and baked inside a flaky crust.

Lemon Meringue
8” (one size only serves 12) $21
Buttery shortbread crust, fresh, tart lemon curd & fluffy meringue.


Cappuccino Buzz Bombe
6” (one size only) (serves 8-12) $19
Chocolate cake layered with milk chocolate espresso mousse & a lightened vanilla cream center. This dome-shaped dessert is finished in chocolate ganache & decorated with cocoa nibs & chocolate cigarettes.

Gingerbread Roulade
16” (one size only) (serves 8 -16) $20
This delicious, tender gingerbread cake is filled with a light & fluffy cream cheese filling, and then rolled to create the roulade. Garnished with fresh whipped cream and confectioner’s sugar.

Pies
9” (one size only) (serves 6 to 8 generously, up to 12)
Like all of our desserts, our pies are made fresh, by hand, from scratch, using premium ingredients.
Traditional Pumpkin $14.00
Maple Pecan $14.50
Chocolate Mousse $14.00
Double Crust Apple $15.00
Blueberry $15.00

Call us or stop by the store today to place your order before it's too late!

Before placing your order, please inform your server if a person in your party has a food allergy.

Penguins

Today's Featured Friday cake was a custom design for Rudy & Elsie.

The penguins, Eiffel Tower and band around the bottom were all made out of rolled chocolate.

Rolled Chocolate Lace/Floral Applique

We created Kara and Neil's wedding cake for their late September wedding reception at The Fairmont Copley Plaza. The inspiration for their wedding cake was a vintage piece of lace.

The cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream, each individual flower was hand-made out of rolled chocolate and the detail work on each flower was all done by hand in buttercream. The flowers were then hand applied and layered to create this vintage lace look.

Bread!

We have a special treat for Tasty Tuesday today and it's not dessert, it's BREAD! We have had many requests for bread over the years, so it is a product we have decided to try in our retail store.

To start, we will have a Rustic French Baguette, a Sea Salt & Olive Oil Focaccia, and a Sea Salt & Rosemary Focaccia baked fresh and available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the time being. But since we are introducing the bread to you on a Tuesday, it will be available in the store today for this week only.

With our move to Lambert's Plaza in Westwood in January, we anticipate that bread could be a popular item and hope to expand this selection and it's availability based on feedback and demand.

For now, the large Rustic French Baguette is only $2.00...

 ...and the Focaccia is only $2.00 as well!

You just can't beat those prices for a fresh, all-natural product! The reason for these unbeatable, fabulously low prices? We are still working with recipes and we want your feedback! So please stop by the store, buy some bread and let us know what you think!

Give us a call, send us an email, leave us a comment here on this blog post, or just stop by the store with your feedback. We want to know:

• What you think of our bread? Positive and negative! - Is it delicious? Does it need more flavor? Is it dry? Is it moist?
• What time of day you usually buy bread? - In the morning? Around lunchtime? Just before dinner?
• What are you buying bread for? - Buying it for lunch or dinner? Picking it up at lunchtime for dinner tonight or actually for your lunch?
• What type of bread you're looking for?
• And anything else you can think of!

This feedback will help us improve our recipes and provide our customers with the bread they are looking for, along with the quality and freshness they have come to expect from Dessert Works!