Also, the apricot tarts aren't too bad, and the store offers a variety of cakes, tarts, cookies and pirogi made with unusually light Danish-pastry dough.
Eleven different types of bread, including caraway rye, sourdough sunny flax focaccia, sourdough sandwich loaf and daily specials, as well as tarts, cookies, quiches.
There Mr. Gilissen displays and sells his handcrafted pastries (tortes, tarts, cookies, breakfast Danish) and his pralines, truffles and chocolate candies, each one as superb as the next.
Called The Baking Bean (her nickname is Bean, for her runway-ready figure), it takes orders by phone and online for an array of cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, croissants, chocolate bark and other candies, none of which duplicate what Ms. Lam makes for the Chocolate Room.
Cakes, tarts, cookies -- they're all better with walnuts.
Although it is not traditional, brown butter makes a full-flavored stand-in for regular butter in tart crusts, cookie dough, even Rice Krispies treats.
Bakery items include brownies, blondies, fruit tarts, giant cookies, pies and cakes made to order.
Silver Moon also makes cakes, tarts and cookies and has tables for savoring on the spot.
Sweets fill the bottom tier — perhaps miniature lemon curd or custard tarts, buttery cookies and chocolate bonbons.
The deep-dish crème brûlée also won approval, as did a sampler of mini lemon tarts, raspberry cookies, chocolate-covered graham crackers and assorted homemade truffles.
Although I like these fruits for snacking, pastry chefs use them in tarts and cookies, said Lewis Finkelstein, the general manager of the importer, Crossings, of Harvard, Mass.
