Dessert Valley, Wisconsin
Coffee Cake/Cabin Coffee
Guest blog time! For this edition of Dessert Valley, Wisconsin, I decided to lead with a few words from my fellow on-air personality, Dan Kasper, who you may know from…
Cinnamon Roll/Mom’s Kitchen
The first image you see when you go to the menu at the Mom’s Kitchen menu page on their website is a cinnamon roll. Having never made my way up…
Cheesecake Egg Rolls/Egg Rolls And More
One of my fellow DJs here at the Mid-West Family Eau Claire group of radio stations — Teri Ryan — told me a couple years ago about a friend of…
Concha/La Norteñita
If you know where to look, there are little bakeries all over the Eau Claire area. By these, I refer to the ones that churn out muffins and loaves of…
Shakes/Chippewa Family Restaurant
Good ol’ comfort food. It’s something practically everyone likes, yet, the best type in a restaurant is often found in local establishments. You can probably think of several in the…
Cranberry Bar/Cottage Forged Baking
The wildly colored building on Cameron just easy of Clairemont has an interesting history. My first time there was in the summer of 2008 — not to eat or drink,…
Peanut Clusters/Star Line Candy Shoppe
There are a good number of local confectionaries; some have storefronts, some are online, and some…show up where they show up. Take my recent discovery while perusing The Local Store…
Fruitcake/Augusta Bakery
I had to have it. It’s the holiday season, after all. What dessert truly defines the lead-up to Christmas? Not necessarily in the realm of popularity, but in terms of…
Figgy Tart/The Nostalgic Bean
We’re squarely in the 2023 holiday season; this meant that I wanted to see what was on the December Monthly Menu at The Nostalgic Bean in Altoona. The Christmas season…