Thanksgiving Desserts

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays--number two to Christmas most years--but let's face it, if you're cooking dinner like I am, it's a ton of work. Other people might be out watching football, but I'm straining to pay attention to the Macy's parade while I'm buttering and stuffing an obstinate turkey.

One of the great things about this job is that I don't have to give a second thought to dessert. Chef Steve shows up with a variety of pies from La Patisserie, and everyone gets a slice of their favorite. After spending all day checking on the bird and making sure the squash is cooked, the mashed potatoes aren't lumpy, and the onions aren't cooked to mush, it's nice to know that I don't have to jump up after my second bite of stuffing and make sure that a pie is cooking.

I can't say enough for letting someone else make dessert, and we've got some good ones. No, we don't have the tradtional pies online, but if you're near the Winchester, Massachusetts area, we've got them in our store--stop by and order by November 20, please, or call 781-729-9441 and we'll be happy to help you.

We do have petits fours, cookies, our fabulous, amazing, astounding Turkey Cookie Centerpiece (pricey, but very impressive), pumpkin cheesecake, and pumpkin and pecan tarts. You'll find them all on our Thanksgiving Desserts page.

Without going back and rereading all my old posts (mildly amusing but largely painful), I'm pretty sure I promised to have pies by this Thanksgiving. I tried to find some--oh, how I tried, knowing that I could hardly call this a full-service bakery site if we couldn't meet your pie needs.

Then we got caught up in a site development cycle, and football season began. So no pies.

But we've got tarts! Tarts, I say! Really extraordinary tarts. And what is a tart, if it's not a pie in a butter cookie shell with a saucier name? And let's admit it--you're sick of pie in the same way that you're sick of turkey year after year. So once you've ordered your Turducken, why not order a tart? I've even made that easier for you by setting things up so you can get two of our pecan or Rum Pumpkin tarts and pay shipping for one, as long as they're going to the same address. If you're expecting a big crowd, that'll save you money, money that you'll need when you realize on Thanksgiving day that you're out of Bell's Poultry Seasoning and have to go buy some at the gas station, which has opportunistically stocked it for the holidays.