Dessert Valley, Wisconsin
Cream Cheese Pastry/The Goat Coffee House
My wife and I have gotten drinks and such from The Goat Coffee House over the years, but when the pandemic hit, she highlighted them for finding a way to…
Kitchen Sink Bar/Mayana Chocolate
When you go to the Mayana Chocolate website, the phrase that appears in the middle of the page is “The best chocolate you’ve never heard of.” Fair point: I had…
Holy Donuts
Mmmm, donuts. It’s what you think when you see this delectable baked/fried good. So, how about a bunch of them at once — but not so many that your stomach…
Maple Pecan Scone/Five & Two Cafe
Pancake-y. That’s how my wife described the taste of the maple pecan scone I got the other day from the Five & Two Cafe in Eau Claire. That’s a good…
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie/Great Harvest Bread Co.
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…
Snickerdoodle Cookie/Dessert First
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…
Cheesecake Chimichanga/Cancun Grill
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…
Oatmeal Butterscotch Scone/Acoustic Café
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…
Malted Puppy Ice Cream/Casey’s Creamery
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…