Dessert Valley, Wisconsin

Cream Cheese Pastry/The Goat Coffee House

By Luc | September 1, 2022

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

By Luc | August 25, 2022

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

By Luc | August 18, 2022

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

By Luc | August 4, 2022

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.

By Luc | July 21, 2022

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

By Luc | July 12, 2022

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

By Luc | July 5, 2022

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

By Luc | June 27, 2022

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

By Luc | June 21, 2022

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…