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| - This is no doubt the prettiest bakery/cafe I've ever set foot in, with a stained glass door and dark wood. The wall of candy jars is also visually appealing, and better yet, the candy is for sale.
All the baked goods are kosher and non-dairy. While I eat dairy, I didn't miss it too much in the sweets I've tried here. The triple chocolate cookie I had was sweet, soft and chewy--my kind of cookie!
A friend had recommended the cupcakes here over Dozen up the street, and I have to second that recommendation. I was impressed by how the icing had been piped on my cupcake to look like a flower, and how my cupcake-to-go was packaged in a little box of its very own, ensuring that it would still look gorgeous when I settled down to eat it. Looks aside, the cake was moist and the icing was light--unlike the dry cake and heavy icing Dozen makes. I didn't feel that the pumpkin cupcake had too much taste, however.
A caramel turtle bar I ordered to go didn't hold up well. The caramel got stuck to the parchment the bar had been wrapped in, and when I tried to peel off the bar, the bar's shortbread base fell apart. Both the tender shortbread and caramel-nut parts of the bar were tasty.
As a home baker, I'm very pro-butter and pro-dairy. But if you need to avoid those because of dietary restrictions, Sweet Tammy's will do. (If dairy and non-kosher are okay in your book, though, I'd recommend Vanilla Pastry Studio in East Liberty).
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