More Sweets for Your Sweet

Straight up, I'm going to tell you about more stuff you can buy on our site. But before I get to that, today I was thinking about how romantic a Raspberry Buttercreme cake would be. Too bad it's still stuck in development. It's hard to get just the right balance of raspberry and buttercreme, apparently. Really, really hard. I hope the overtime spent on cake development doesn't cost the workers their sanity.

Now on to the sales pitch. We've got three new bakery partners this week, all of whom are worthy and welcome additions to our product line. I personally taste everything that we sell (and that we decide not to sell), and I can tell you that all three of these bakeries have wowed me. That's not an easy thing to do.

I told you about Solomon's Gourmet Cookies in my last post. For Valentine's Day, we've just added a Valentine Gift Basket that includes a dozen Silver Label cookies without nuts, three Black Label cookies, and three fondant-covered hearts expressing the warm sentiments of "Happy Valentines Day" and "I Love You." It's only available until the 13th, and it's sure to be a coveted gift of Valentines everywhere.

We've also got two new items from The Nutty Cookie of California, with more to come next week. These folks have perfected big, soft-baked cookies, and they use a lot of California-grown ingredients. Much to the dismay of the Wheat Council and the USDA, I ate these cookies for lunch a couple of times this week. I have a weakness for chocolate chips and skipping meals. I'm working on it, I swear.

The Nutty Cookie has supplied the biggest cookie we've ever carried, the "Bee Mine" Heart Cookie. Four pounds of cookie goodness stuffed with Guittard chocolate chips. It says "Bee Mine," and there's sugar bees on it, because nothing says, "I love you" quite like an edible pun. It's fun and cute and you know someone who'd love to get it, so stop snickering.

Finally, for you Mardi Gras afficionados out there, how about a genuine New Orleans King Cake from Randazzo's Camellia City Bakery? It's like getting Carnival in a box, because you'll get the cake along with Mardi Gras beads, plastic doubloons, and a history of Mardi Gras. There's more to the story of this partnership to be told, but it's Friday, and you should be out enjoying the weekend. I'll have the full story on Monday.