SWEET HEART
CAKEY STUFF
The Great Pastry Shop has expanded from Riverside to Riccarton! One of our front runners for pastry and coffee on the go is now in Westfield Mall, as well as its central city location. This family patisserie has an ever-evolving range of pasties, entremets, choux, tarts, and plenty of ‘cakey stuff’. You can also find them at the Christchurch Farmers Market and the Arts Centre Mākete every weekend.
FREEZE!
Silky smooth pink chocolate is sometimes all you need in your life. With 28 per cent cacao white chocolate and generously topped with a tart punch of freeze-dried raspberries, New Zealand dry roasted hazelnuts and crunchy cacao nibs, each of these gluten-free bars has a touch of edible gold flake for a luxe finish. House of Chocolate is a carefully handcrafted Kiwi brand stocked locally at Ballantynes.
SIMPLY THE ZEST
Butter’s latest menu offerings have arrived, which means spring ushers in bold, sweet flavours with fruit. The office favourite here at Avenues HQ is the lemon and hazelnut tart. A mix of crunch, zest, and pillowy soft meringue, and locally sourced ingredients mean this is set to be a menu favourite for the warmer months. Butter’s tarts easily feed four people, maybe six if you’re restrained. Not us.
HAGLEY CHERRY BLOSSOM
This dessert is one of Sweet Soul’s iconic limited editions. The pastry chefs create these when the cherry flowers blossom at Hagley Park and continue to serve them until summertime. This year, spring will be even more special than usual, as every Hagley Cherry Blossom dessert sold means a donation of one dollar to the Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Foundation. Founder Taina Scur says that this offering is a special dessert. “Not just because of its amazing taste and the meaning behind the name, but because we support Pink October and the wider community. It’s a sweet fulfilment for us.”