Tucked into little bird’s nest pastries and featured in authentic Damascan-style ice cream, pistachios are a key ingredient at the new Pistachio Café in Westville. …
Tag Archives: desserts
Claim to Fame
The cranberries in a piping hot cranberry orange almond scone from Kathy’s Famous Cookies nearly melt in your mouth. …
Baker’s Dozens
As customers visit Hen & Heifer, a little bakery around the corner from the Guilford Town Green, it’s clear they’re coming for dessert. …
Sweet Dream
Darrell Nurse opened his Westville confectionary, Chip in a Bottle, last November, right down the street from a dentist’s office. Over the course of the last few months, more and more dental employees have been …
Holy Cannoli
At 6 a.m. the day before Christmas, a line will form at the door of Lucibello’s Italian Pastry Shop, extending further and further down the block until the doors open at 8:30. By 11, the cannoli will be …
Layer Cakes
At Marjolaine Pastry Shop, even the non-layer cakes can have serious levels to them. You’d probably never know it just by looking or eating, but the bakery’s buttercream icing, for instance, which frosts nearly all of Marjolaine’s wedding and…
Soup Upped
After years spent roasting, chopping and simmering in rented kitchen spaces and ladling on-the-go from a silver truck, Jessica Hazen, a.k.a. The Soup Girl, knew that opening a storefront was the next step.…
Life By Chocolate
It’s threatening rain on a warm afternoon as Christian Wilke whips butterscotch sauce into cupcake batter, folding ingredients into a dusty pink kitchen mixer. All is quiet on Chapel Street: Yale undergraduates have gone home for the summer. But customers …
Cupcakes 2.0
All hail the cupcake craze. The national phenom about all things petite and sweet took hold in New Haven ahead of the curve: we welcomed The Cupcake Truck in 2008 and now, occupying the block with Kennedy & Perkins, Katahdin …
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