Gluten-Free Turtle Tart at The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem, Utah
It’s a special Valentine-sie love week over here at Utah Loves Cupcakes. I’m featuring one of my favorite local bakeries, The Chocolate Dessert Cafe, all week long. Four lucky ULC readers will win a $25 gift certificate to The Chocolate Dessert Cafe. You can enter to win on this post. Hurry–deadline to enter is Saturday, February 11 at 10 pm MST.
Say hello to Mr. Turtle Tart. He’s about to play your palate like a fiddle. He begins his masterpiece with a crunchy pecan cookie, then builds to a chewy caramel crescendo and ends with a movement of thick milk chocolate ganache.
Did I mention this dessert is gluten free? I don’t eat gluten free, I just crave the crunch and flavor of this combo.
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
Orem & West Jordan, Utah
thechocolatedc.com
Hours and Addresses, here.
Pricing, here.
@TheChoco on Twitter
The Chocolate on Facebook
All delicious treats photographed by me and all tasty opinions are my own. Please do not use photography without written permission.
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies from The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem, Utah
It’s a special Valentine-sie love week over here at Utah Loves Cupcakes. I’m featuring one of my favorite local bakeries, The Chocolate Dessert Cafe, all week long. Four lucky ULC readers will win a $25 gift certificate to The Chocolate Dessert Cafe. You can enter to win on this post. Hurry–deadline to enter is Saturday, February 11 at 10 pm MST.
It’s not Valentine’s Day without heart-shaped sugar cookies.
If you’re looking for a good sugar cookie give The Chocolate Dessert Cafe‘s a try. I know many a person who swear this is the best sugar cookie they’ve tasted. They love the hint of lemon, the soft chew and the creamy buttercream. And no fret, The Chocolate makes these frosted sugar cookies year-round.
So order up some of The Chocolate’s heart-shaped sugar cookies by the dozen or a single heart for you or your sweetheart. These cookies sell out fast. Many a time have I visited The Chocolate in the afternoon and the plate of heart-shaped sugar cookies is empty. Rest assurred, the round sugar cookies taste just as great!
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
Orem & West Jordan, Utah
thechocolatedc.com
Hours and Addresses, here.
Pricing, here.
@TheChoco on Twitter
The Chocolate on Facebook
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe – Valentine’s Giveaway {Now Closed}
This giveaway is now closed. The winners are ARI (#67), Kerianne (#150), Jenny Jenkins (#175) and Carina (#217). Congratulations! An email has been sent to you from utahlovescupcakes(at)gmail(dot)com. Please respond before Monday at noon and I will then let you know how to receive and redeem your gift cards. Thanks to everyone who entered and keep your eyes peeled for more cupcake fun and more giveaways.
Hear ye, hear ye. Saint Valentine is set to arrive in t-minus eight days. Whether your sweetheart loves chocolate, wants a big wet kiss or you’re one who has yet to be struck by the power of Cupid…I’ve got the goods to put you in that Valentine’s mood.
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe is one of my very favorite local bakeries here in Utah. I know this bakery like the back of my frosting-filled hand. It just so happens it is on the morning commute and often ends up being an afternoon stop. To celebrate Valentine’s, I’m bringing you a week full of posts in hopes that you’ll see The Chocolate Dessert Cafe as I see it. I hope you’ll join me in a gluttonous week of delicious @TheChoco posts.
I’ll be sharing practically every item on their menu, talking you on a virtual walk through their winding staircases and rooms through the cafe, and giving you a slice (quite literally) of the vision and growth of The Chocolate Dessert Cafe’s concept. It will be all buttercream, whipped cream, hot chocolate, cake, cupcakes, tarts and brownies from here on out. So prepare yourself. Pull on those stretchy pants and grab a glass of milk cause it’s about to get real.
I’m happy to announce that The Chocolate’s annual Cake by Candlelight event begins this week. From Febraury 10-14 The Chocoalte Dessert Cafe will host a romantic night where you can eat their cake and desserts in an ultra-romantic ambiance of candelight. I don’t think it gets more Valentine-sie than that, folks.
So get ready, get ready to oogle and aww and freak out a bit over The Chocolate Dessert Cafe’s creations all week long. Real quick: I can’t go a post without giving a shout-out to my favorite cupcake made by The Chocolate: the Caramel Chocolate cupcake! I could speak volumes about this cupcake, especially its frosting. But let’s get this giveaway going. Enter now. Details only a picture away!
The best news is that four lucky Utah Loves Cupcakes readers will win a $25 Gift Certificate to The Chocolate Dessert Cafe.
To Win a $25 Gift Certificate to The Chocolate Dessert Cafe:
Visit The Chocolate Dessert Cafe’s website and leave a comment on this post telling me what you’d order off their menu.
Bonus Entries:
1. “Like” The Chocolate Dessert Cafe on Facebook. Leave a comment letting me know you did so.
2. Follow @TheChoco on Twitter. Leave a seperate comment on this post letting me know you did so.
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5. Follow @DomesticBecky on Twitter. Leave a separate comment letting me know you did so.
6. Share the link to this giveaway post on your Facebook page. Leave a separate comment letting me know you shared the link to this giveaway.
7. Tweet about this giveaway. Make sure the link to this giveaway post and my Twitter handle @DomesticBecky are included . Leave a separate comment letting me know you tweeted the fun!
The giveaway is open until Saturday, February 11 at 10 pm, MST.
The giveaway is only open to Utah residents or those who will be in Utah between February 13-18 and able to redeem their gift certificates in person at either locations of The Chocolate Dessert Cafe . Be absolutely sure to leave a current and valid email address with your comment(s). Four winners will be selected at random and announced on this post. If winner does not respond by Monday at noon, they will be emailed and given 24 hours before another winner is selected.
This giveaway is sponsored by The Chocolate Dessert Cafe. All delicious treats photographed by me and all tasty opinions are my own.
Flavor Review: Strawberry Vanilla from The Chocolate
Flavor: Strawberry Vanilla
Made of: Their popular Kitty-Katrina vanilla cake topped with melt-in-your-mouth strawberry buttercream and topped with a fresh blueberry for good measure.
Where: The Chocolate Dessert Cafe (both locations, though I think this is making a special appearance at the Orem store for just this weekend. I think it’s a staple in West Jordan.)
How Much? $2.25
Christmas in full swing at The Chocolate
Come they told me pa-ra-pah-puh-pum….
That’s the music playing right now as I type from my favorite spot inside The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem, Utah. I’m sipping some chamomile tea and snacking on the spicy, sweet n’ tangy seasonal molasses ginger cookie. I haven’t had it since the last holiday season and oh-how-I adore it. On my way out I’ll be picking up this holiday cupcake:
The chocolate peppermint one. Here’s what I had to say about it last year when I first tried it:
“It was a delicious holiday flavor. It was a great balance of the chocolate and peppermint, paired perfectly. The peppermint was apparent, but not cheap nor strong. It cooled my mouth, yet made my taste buds beg for more chocolate. I loved it. I dare say I’d take this cupcake over my faved Williams-Sonoma Peppermint Bark.”
And speaking of peppermint bark…The Chocolate just introduced a new cookie: Peppermint Bark that is. I tried it and holy cow it is chewy.
The Chocolate has decked their halls and bakery cases with sweet treats for kids of all ages. Head on over. You’ll love it.
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
9118 South Redwood Road
West Jordan, Utah
212 South State in Orem
Hours: Monday – Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday-Saturday 10am-11pm
**Ladies Night: EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8pm-11pm
Web: http://thechocolatedc.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thechoco
Twitter:http://twitter.com/TheChoco
Blog: http://www.thechocolatedc.com/blog/
More Utah Loves Cupake posts about The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem, Utah:
Stylishly Sweet: The Chocolate Dessert Cafe Opens New Location in West Jordan
New West Jordan Location for The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
Brotherly Love at The Chocolate
New Cake and Cupcake Flavor at The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem
Cookies and Cream Cupcake from The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe: Vanilla Vanilla Cupcake (Review)
Wednesday Night is Ladies Night at The Chocolate
The Perfect Cupcake Scene
Mirror Mirror on the wall (Peppermint Cupcake)
Photo Tour of The Chocolate Cupcake Cart at University Mall (Orem, Utah)
My Two Favorite Cupcake Flavors at The Chocolate
Brotherly Love at The Chocolate
It’s not every day that The Chocolate Dessert Cafe adds a new item to their menu. In fact, this is the first permanent addition to the two-year old bakery’s repertoire.
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem is a dessert lovers dream. It’s located in a quaint historic home on Orem’s State Street, and the cottage is filled with jazzy music, relaxing colors, sweet smells and friendly staff. The warmth and passion for sweet treats shines through on The Chocolate’s menu.
At the Chocolate, vanilla is not just called vanilla, and dark chocolate definitely not dark chocolate. The owner, Ange Christiansen, pays homage to important people in her life and career through each cake’s name. She has named cakes after her husband (The Husband), her best friend (The Dottie) her bakery mentor (The Veronika) and other people or places that have inspired her lifelong dream of creating cakes by the slice.
“Ever since the bakery cafe opened I’ve been getting grief from my three older brothers,” Christiansen said. “They keep wondering when they will have ‘their’ cake.”
Christiansen finally nailed down a new cake flavor and name which she dedicated to her three older brothers. The new treat is aptly titled “The Brothers.”
And it’s quite fitting. The whipped cream cake is topped with three different berries both tart and sweet: strawberry, blackberry and raspberry. “Three berries for three brothers,” Christensen continued.
The cake is perfect for summer: light and refreshing. It’s reminiscent of strawberry shortcake, but with a bit more refinement. And there is a secret ingredient to The Brothers that Christiansen will never reveal.
As for the three namesakes, they are happy to find their place on their kid sister’s menu.
Like all layer cakes sold at the bakery, customers can purchase The Brothers by the slice ($4.49), and in a Mini Cake (5-inches) for $13 inside the bakery. The cake is also available in a celebration size by special order ($40). The Brothers has also been translated into cupcake form, which is casually known by the nickname of Berry Licious. The individual-sized treat has the same components as its big brother but instead of layering berries and whipped cream and garnishing with toasted coconut the Berry Licious is filled with a fresh strawberry and topped with a generous portion of satiny whipped cream then crowned with a raspberry and blackberry.
Depending on how you eat your cupcake, you may or may not notice that when it is cut in half the fresh red strawberry forms a heart shape. Perhaps a sweet symbol of love from a sister to her brothers? Maybe.
The Brothers will be the newest rotating cake flavor at the dessert cafe. It’s available for purchase on Mondays and Tuesdays, or for pre-order any day of the week. Berry Licious will be available through special order only. You may want to put in a call for it now, it would make the perfect summer dessert for any event.
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
212 South State in Orem
Hours: Monday – Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday-Saturday 10am-11pm
**Ladies Night: EVERY WEDNESDAY from 8pm-11pm
Web: http://thechocolatedc.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thechoco
Twitter:http://twitter.com/TheChoco
Blog: http://www.thechocolatedc.com/blog/
More Utah Loves Cupake posts about The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem, Utah:
New Cake and Cupcake Flavor at The Chocolate Dessert Cafe in Orem
Cookies and Cream Cupcake from The Chocolate Dessert Cafe
The Chocolate Dessert Cafe: Vanilla Vanilla Cupcake (Review)
Wednesday Night is Ladies Night at The Chocolate
The Perfect Cupcake Scene
Mirror Mirror on the wall (Peppermint Cupcake)
Photo Tour of The Chocolate Cupcake Cart at University Mall (Orem, Utah)
My Two Favorite Cupcake Flavors at The Chocolate
On my other blog, Project Domestication as of late:
Tuesdays with Dorie: Chewy, Chunky Blondies
Support Local: CSA with Jacob’s Cove
Lo Jolla Groves Restaurant (Provo, Utah) – Review
About
hi. my name is becky.
i love utah and i love cupcakes.
it really is just that simple.
this blog is a place where utah and cupcakes come together.
i scope out all the latest cupcake news in utah. visit utah cupcakeries. review cupcake bakeries and cupcake-related items. i post cupcake recipes and ideas from other utah cupcake enthusiasts. i also travel to eat cupcakes and tell you about my adventures.
i hope you will join me in this journey. i can’t tell you how much i love to support local, how much i love eating quality cupcakes, meeting fun and interesting bakery owners and seeing their stores succeed and um…having fun!
cupcakes are here to stay! they are a tradition and not a trend!
join our flickr group, email me the latest on your cupcake baking and cupcake seeking adventures…we are bound to have a great time.
I also blog at Project Domestication — where you can see my personal baking adventures!
-becky
***For more about my story and love of cupcakes, read my guest blog post on Cupcakes Take The Cake!***
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