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Desserts
Nothing brings back wonderful memories like dessert! Eating gelato in Florence, that creamy rice pudding from your wonderful Aunt, the best brownies ever baking in your mom's kitchen and, of course, no one can ever forget the memory of the last chocolate babka or the Black & White cookie on Seinfeld. Create, or recreate memories with your favorite; the wonderful dessert resources below have put much time and love into their specialties.
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French Nugget - Inspired by the delicacy of Southern France, French Nugget is 100% unsweetened dark chocolate, raisins, honey with almonds, peanuts or oatmeal/walnut. We sampled all varieties, they are perfect to serve on your cheese board at a party or take with you as a all-natural no additive \"energy\" bar. Very unique snack
Good Karmal - Beautifully packaged, each with a positive quote of good karma - these handcrafted caramels (karmals)are excellent. This makes a meaningful & delicious gift. Gooey, rich and wrapped with inspirational sayings. These wrappers can also be customized with your own sayings and sentiments.
Il Laboratorio del Gelato - Homemade gelato using locally grown ingredients. 75 flavors.
Capogiro Gelato - Devoted to using local hand picked produce and milk from grass fed, hormone -free cows;artisanal gelato & sorbetto produced using Italian artisan know-how
Michael's Frozen Custard - Genuine frozen custard, dense & creamy. Made with the finest ingredients including local milk, cream, sugar and eggs.
Kopp's Frozen Custard - A landmark in the Metro-Milwaukee area, Kopp's is famous for delicious frozen custard, many unique flavors. Shipments leave every tuesday!
ECreamery - Ice cream customized to your specs, from only the best ingredients; many exotic ingedients to choose from.
Decadence Gourmet Cheesecake - Delicious homemade cheesecakes in oh so many flavors made in small canning jars. Not only adorable but this serves as the perfect portion control. It allows you to enjoy the Decadences while staying in control. Perfect gift idea.
Bassett's Ice Cream - For over 140 years, Bassetts Ice Cream has been making real true ice cream, now available online!
Graeter - Graeter's has been indulging ice cream lovers since 1870, one of the oldest continuously family-owned ice cream makers in the country. They maintained and perfected the traditional French Pot process. Each French Pot freezer produces just two gallons of ice cream at a time - creating a one of a kind creaminess.
St. Clair Ice Cream - St. Clair speciality ice cream offers 40 fruit, flower, & specialty shapes in 17 ice cream and kosher sorbet flavors
Tropical Flavors - Jamaican all natural ice cream flavors
Mashti Malone - Iranian homemade ice cream; rosewater ice creams and sorbets
Creme Delight - A reduced fat/calorie ice cream - that many NYers gush over - the big plus that we see is that it contains 50% more protein than regular ice cream.
Rice To Riches - Varieties of homemade rice pudding
Robin's Chocolate Sauces - 6 very yummy flavors of certified organic chocolate sauce. We tasted them all - the Orange Spice is our favorite. They give back to the enviroment using cocoa that is made using sustainable farming & shade grown cocoa.
Heavenly Soufflle - These are too good to be true. Open, bake & serve these wildly decadent souffles. Your guests ( or just you!) will feel like you are in a fancy restaurant. They include reusable ceramic ramekins. It leaves the question of why hasn’t anyone thought of this before
Mr. Kent's Foods - Chocolate mousse, all natural - ready to eat, 3 flavors. Can also be used as to fill/frost a cake/pastry.
Kings Cupboard - Montana gourmet food Co, making fine dessert sauces, hot chocolate, frosting, cake mixes & puddings. We sampled the Triple chocolate layer cake mix & frosting - excellent! Natural ingredients & rich quality chocolate. We also tried several dessert sauces - each one was smooth, rich & unique in flavor.
Three J's Desserts - Specialists in the art of making the finest Tiramisu! 8 varieties!
Bittersweet Pastries - Award winning cakes, tarts, cookies and more. These desserts are sold to many of the best hotels, restaurants, country clubs & gourmet stores in the country.
Swedish Bakery - European style breads, cakes, pastries, cookies.
Sweet Street Desserts - Large variety of frozen baked goods, desserts.
Polly's Cakes - Special Occasion cakes - each a work of art. From painted cakes, bubble cakes and of course streamline traditional.
Marla's Magic - Homemade, hand decorated - treats of all types. Cookies, cupcakes, browines, cakes, poundcakes.
Ruthy's Bakery - Someone special celebrating a birthday, send them a surprise birthday cake, baked fresh and flown Next-Day from New York City (candles included)
Cakes by Jane - Homemade cream cheese pound cakes
Confetti Cake - Hand sculpted delicious works of art. Each one-of-a-kind design is an amazing life-like composition, a multi-dimensional work made entirely of moist cake, rich buttercream and sweet sugar dough.
A Southern Season - Shortbread cookies.
Chewys - Rugulach & Hamentashen. Certified Kosher Dairy
Elegant Cheescakes - Pastry chef Susan Morgan designs original wedding & celebration cheesecakes!. A master chocolatier, she decorates her cheesecakes with intricate hand-sculpted chocolate designs.
Desserts David Glass - Famous gourmet cheesecakes, ultimate chocolate truffle cake, ultimate espresso chocolate walnut madness, luscious Italian almond cake.
Holey Moses Cheesecake - Unique Style -award winning cheesecakes. The ingredients are whipped in a blender to create a light, creamy batter, then slow-baked in a tube-pan. This allows the batter to bake evenly from the edges to the center creating a smooth creamy cake.
Venieros Italian Bakery - Authentic NYC Italian pastries, cakes, cookies.
William Greenberg Bakery - NY's famous black & white cookies; large cake like cookie with chocolate & vanilla frosting- The key to eating a black & white cookie, according to Jerry Seinfeld, is to get some black & some white in each bite! They also make Babke to die for - Linzer tarts, rasberry thumbprints.
Cheesecake Momma - Over 30 flavors of award-winning all-natural cheesecakes.
New Skete Cheesecakes - Order homemade cheesecakes in many varieties from the Nuns of New Skete.
Cheese Cake City - Since 1985 they have been baking high quality cheesecakes in many varieties - rave reviews on their website.
Eileen's Special Cheesecake - Award winning NY Style cheesecakes, many flavors.
Strawberry Hill's Poritica - Traditional bread (cake)of Eastern Europe. Each Povitica is hand rolled, baked and shipped direct.
Dancing Deer Baking Company - All natural, fresh baked from scratch cake, cookies & brownies.
Lady M Confections - Cakes, tarts, crepes, mousse.
Sarabeth's Kitchen - Award winning jams (famous for her orange-apricot jam) cakes & cookie.
Sweeties Pies - Many varieties of homemade pies, shipped frozen for you to bake. The Pecan has nuts all the way to the bottom!
C. J. Olson Cherries - Bing cherrie pie.
Ou là là Sweet Passions - "Yam Good" Pies.
Little Pie Company - Pies from scratch.
JT Pie - Over 30 types of scratch pies.
Macpie - Macadamia nut pies in many varieties.
Bonert's Slice of Pie - Variety of pies including the American Flag.
Julian Pie - Homemade old fashion apple pie.
Dangerous Pies - Fresh, handmade pies: sweet and savory.
My Pie in the Sky - Artisanal sweet & savory pies delivered in signature wooden crates.
Levain Bakery - Know for their mammoth, rich cookies.The chocolate chip is 1/2 lb!
Carol's Cookies - Homemade cookies; cookie of the month club offered.
The Nutty Cookie - Life's too short not to eat good cookies, homemade, oversized very special cookies.
Chip-N-Dough - Cookies, cookie dough.
Cookies On Call - Variety of chocolate chuck cookies.
Solomon's Gourmet Cookies - Unique variety of cookies, brownies, and bars.recipes for these cookies were handed down by their grandmother.
Feed Your Soul - Outrageous cookies packaged with creative sophistication.
The New Salem Tea-Bread Co. - Loaf style cakes.
eBabka - Traditional Babkas are baked exclusively by Aunt Heddy's Bakery in Brooklyn, New York.
Fanciulla - Authentic biscotti baked by a nice Italian girl from NYC.
Ruby et Violette - Chocolate chunk cookies in dozens of flavors.
Anna's Puff - Palmiers, traditional French cookie made with puff pastry in a variety of inspired flavors.
Fairytale Brownies - Rich, dark Belgian chocolate, premium butter, farm-fresh eggs, are used in these decadent brownies.
Miles of Chocolate - A cross between a dense brownie and a dark chocolate truffle.
Miles of Chocolate - A cross between a dense brownie and a dark chocolate truffle.
Fat Witch The Brownie - Dense, rich brownies.
Simply Divine Brownie - Baked with the finest ingredients,flavors include chocolate peanut butter, sweet potato, caramel, smores, cherry & whoopie pie brownies.
Baklava - Variety of baklava, burma, ballourie, etc.
Athena's Silverland Desserts - Gourmet brownies, cookies and dessert bars, made with only the finest ingredients. all natural, with no preservatives and no added salt, sugar free, or low fat available.
Cupcake Royale - Homemade cupcakes.
Peninsula Grill - The ultimate coconut cake.
Gambino's Bakery - New Orleans specialty bakery.
My Grandma's of New England - Decadent, dinner-worthy cakes made from the finest and freshest ingredients available in a variety of fresh flavors.
Tennessee T-Cakes - It is not a cookie, cake, or candy - it is a confection. The taste is unique .All natural - 4 flavors.
Sticky Toffee Pudding - English treat; moist cake under warm toffee sauce; shipped ready to heat.
Kitchoon - Traditional Japanese desserts.
Jer's Handmade - Award-Winning peanut butter ball collection. Each of Jer's 11 handmade varieties combines gourmet chocolates with all-natural peanut butter centers.
Bruttles - Passed down from generations, Bruttles has become well known in Spokane, WA. It started with a family recipe for soft peanut butter brittle .They now offer a variety hard nut brittles, caramels, turtles.
Fortunuts - Homemade holiday walnuts.
Valerie's Confections - Handmade gourmet toffees.
Fudge Fatale - Ultimate fudge, dark chocolate sauce.
Hammond Candies - Toffee is still dipped in rich chocolate & hand-rolled in crunchy almonds. Hard candy is hand-pulled to extra-shine, all by hand the old fashion way.
Angelic Gourmet - The world's best dressed pretzels.
Candy Direct - Your candy kingdom.
Custom Fortune Cookie Company - Custom homemade fortune cookies.
Wicked Popcorn - Gourmet Popcorns.
Ali's Cookies - Known for their giant cookie cakes, they ship just about any type of cookie you could want or a variety. Big and chewy - they make a great gift.
Jeni's Fresh Ice Cream - Jeni uses fresh Ohio dairy, honey and fruits from the Ohio countryside, Madagascar vanilla, Vietnamese cinnamon, and varietal chocolates from Venezuela and Africa. Frozen yogurts and sorbets also.
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Love Street Living Foods
They offer organic, raw, vegan foods, free from all genetically modified or processed ingredients. We sampled their raw chocolate with goji berries - it was delicious. Their concept take a semi superfood like dark chocolate and make it a true super food by offering it raw with only organic ingredients (no proceed sugars). Terrific resource.
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Recchiuti Confections
Wonderfully inventive chocolate creations. Tops of our latest tasting their slivers of green apple/lime drenched in deep dark chocolate & Asphalt Jungle Mix ( burnt caramel almonds & hazelnuts, cherries & PB pearls all dipped in chocolate. Oh, and their seasonal flavor lavender vanilla is dreamy.
