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Soiree Cakery Lemon Cake Soars

Andrea — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:25 +0000

We stopped by to celebrate Butter’s Fine Foods & Wine 3rd Birthday with Krystan and the crew on July 30.

A nice selection of wines to sample per usual, but the treat was the cake. Wow!

Kristy Stephens Ammann, owner of Soiree Cakery, was behind the counter cutting up heavenly slices of her signature lemon cake. A perfect concoction of sour and sweet, it would be perfect for weddings, showers, anniversaries… heck, for Thursdays. I think it was a Thursday.

The flavor harked back to the cakes my grandmothers made from scratch, a hint of lemon pudding cake, as rich as anything Julia Childs ever concocted. Light but packing that infusion of citrus to keep it real.

It’s also perfect to pair with champagne, so we took home a bottle of the Cavit after all!

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Bread & Chocolate – Concord

roger — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:32:58 +0000

(603) 228-3330

29 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301

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Bread & Chocolate Seduction

Andrea — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:44:11 +0000

Okay, so the truth is this: the way to a woman’s heart is through chocolate… or it is poppy seeds?

A few years back, Roger and I were working on a shared project through Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. I was the writer and he was the designer for their employee newsletter. We’d grown fond of each other and become good friends over a period of time.

He was commuting from Hillsboro up to Lebanon a few days per week, and somehow he found time to get to South Main Street in Concord to pick up several slices of Bread & Chocolate to surprise me with. It didn’t take me too long to anticipate and long for this periodic treat.

Each slice is a dense but flaky one inch wide by four inch stretch of pastry filled with a lovely sugary spice mix. The secret I kept for along time — didn’t want to hurt any feelings — was that I actually like the honey and black poppyseed version best. Yes, chocolate rules, bu this flavor is also special. There is also a cinnamon and walnut version of the strudel, so it really requires a taste of each one at each sitting to be sure of one’s favorite.

Baker Franz Andlinger, Austrian born and trained, is responsible for the wonderful flaky strudels and hearty breads. They also sell sandwiches and all manner of cakes and pastries. It’s also a source of the best all-purpose farm loaf at the best price we can find in the region. Hard to go wrong with any of it.

So, the truth? I did fall for the guy. But Bread & Chocolate paved the way.

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