Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts

Our individual Chocolate Caramel Pecan Tarts are available for purchase in our retail pastry shop!
If you like pecan pie, you'll love this chocolaty twist on that classic holiday dessert. The sweet dough crust is filled with chewy caramel and pecans, and topped with chocolate mousse!

Sports

Often, we have customers come in with a specific theme in mind for their party and therefore their cake. This Mitzvah had a ESPN type theme, except the boy's first name started with "Z" so they made their own "ZSPN ZONE" logo.

We worked together to design this unique sports themed cake, featuring their logo and sports equipment from his favorite sports, all made from rolled chocolate. Add some buttercream grass and some whimsical rolled chocolate dots on the side, and we think this cake went perfectly with the customer's theme!

Bows

Bows are quite popular with our brides that don't want flowers on their wedding cake.

This dark brown, rolled chocolate bow adds a touch of elegance to this wedding cake covered in our interlocking scroll design.

Holiday Baking Tips

From our kitchen to yours.

Today, we're sharing a few of our tricks-of-the-trade with you, for all that holiday baking you have coming up!

• Tip 1 - Making many different kinds of cookies can be time consuming. To break it up, make your different doughs one day and refrigerate them, then cook them another day. Most cookie doughs can be refrigerated up to 4 days, and can last 1-2 weeks in the freezer!

• Tip 2 - Cookies that are all the same size will be more appealing visually and will also cook more consistently. To accomplish this, use a small ice cream scoop to portion out your cookies!

• Tip 3 - We all know the best part of a pie is the flaky, buttery crust! To get a nice flaky crust, make sure you use COLD butter and don't over work the dough. You can also make your pie crusts in advance and keep them in the refrigerator, like you can your cookie doughs.

• Tip 4 - For any fruit pies, let the fruit and spices that make up the filling sit and macerate in their juices for a few hours, or even over night before you put them into your crust. You'll develop more flavor that way!

• Tip 5 - With the economy the way it is, we're all being a little bit more careful with our money. If you're making something like eggnog that uses a lot of egg yolks, find a meringue cookie recipe that uses a lot of egg whites to make too! Then you aren't throwing them all away.

And, of course, if you'd rather spend time with your family than all that time baking in the kitchen, stop by Dessert Works by December 20th to place an order and guarantee your selection for pick-up on December 24th!

Do you have any holiday baking tips?? Leave us a comment below!

Designer Purse

If you're new to our blog, around here, Fridays are Featured Friday, where we feature one of our custom cakes! The cake can be for any occasion, but today's cake was a birthday surprise.

If this woman asked for a designer purse for her birthday...

...she definitely had a little surprise coming for her when it showed up made out of cake!

Snowcouple

Every wedding cake we create is unique to each couple. They come in many shapes and sizes, and can represent a wedding theme or colors, or the couple's personalities. With December here and winter quickly approaching, what better example to share than this winter themed wedding cake topped with a snow couple, hand made out of rolled chocolate, "representing" the bride and groom.

Gingerbread House Kits!

Looking for a fun holiday activity for the kids? Decorating gingerbread houses is always a hit, and you can get a complete kit, with an already assembled house, right here at Dessert Works!

Our gingerbread houses are baked and assembled here on-site so they are ready for you to decorate. The kit includes all the candy you could need plus icing! The houses also come in 2 different sizes.

Small (6"x6"x6") - $18
Large (9"x11"x7") - $36

Stop by the store today to pick one up and then get decorating!