Dessert Valley, Wisconsin

Years ago, I was alerted to the bread at Great Harvest on the southeast side of Eau Claire. In fact, I discovered that their Harvest White went extremely well as…

You know what’s an underrated style of dessert? A cool cookie. Typically, cookie desirability involves a warm cookie — particularly, a warm chocolate chip cookie. Warmth brings out flavor; in…

You know what comprises a chimichanga? Essentially, a burrito, deep-fried. So, imagine a cheesecake burrito, deep-fried. I mean, a cheesecake burrito not deep-fried sounds incredible. Deep-fried? Whoa. You can find…

What is something “for sale” that perks you up, but might turn off another? I can be an oddity, it could be something conventional, it could be a quirk of…

I’m noticing a mini-trend of malt-flavored ice cream. Now, this may seem redundant: malts have ice cream. So, malt-flavored ice cream is…a malt, right? In a way, yeah, but the…

What would you call a big cookie? Like, the kind of cookie you can’t really make by putting a massive glob of cookie dough on a baking sheet? A colossus…

Generally speaking, there are three common types of chocolate: milk, dark, and white (yes, yes, I know there’s no cocoa in white chocolate, but we’re talking what you usually see…

What to do for dessert on my birthday? So, so many options. When my birthday came about recently, my wife suggested we take a swing by Olson’s Ice Cream in…

Mmm, a big ol’ brownie. You really can’t go wrong with that. Massive amounts of delicious, moist brownie, in a big square. It’s, like, ultimate dessert. I found one at…

Have you had a cocoa bomb? Until a couple years ago, did you even know what a cocoa bomb was? Did the prospect of consuming something involving a “bomb” frighten…