May is set aside to celebrate the strawberry so don’t let this month pass by without paying homage. Treat yourself and your family to some delicious strawberry delicacies. Delightful Pastries’ three Chicago-area locations will be offering some of its most popular strawberry pastries. Pick up a strawberry tart, it’s a great dessert for your spring menu.
Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Delightful Pastries welcomes the return of its Belgium chocolate dipped strawberries, a most appropriate “I love you” gift for Mom and don’t forget to treat yourself; these huge Belgium chocolate dipped delights are hard to pass up.
Perhaps the most luscious strawberry treat this May is Delightful Pastries’ Strawberry Shortcake Paczki which makes its return for Strawberry Month as well as Strawberry & Cream Day, May 21.
Delightful Pastries Spring Tarts & Crisps Class May 3
Delightful Pastries is offering a special spring tarts and crisps cooking class from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, May 3. Learn how to make three tarts using local fruit: raspberry and white chocolate mousseline, blackberry and apple crisp, and rhubarb crumble. The class takes place at Delightful Pastries, 1710 Wells St. The class is $60 per student.
No Kidding. May 6 is International No Diet Day. Feast at Delightful Pastries Café on Wells.
We aren’t sure that you really need a day to celebrate a dining splurge, but just in case, Tuesday, May 6 is the day to let it all hang out. It’s International No Diet Day. Delightful Pastries invites you to enjoy their new expanded brunch menu at the Wells Street location. You’ll enjoy a variety of amazing dishes and their creative takes on brunch favorites makes Delightful Pastries one of the best brunch spots in Chicago. Check out the Bacon, Bacon Yum ($9.95) with 2 Eggs scrambled with ham, 2 strips of bacon and 1 slice of extra, extra thick cut bacon; British Mob Movie ($9.95), Pan-fried potato, tomato braised beans w/ mixed vegetable, sunny side up eggs, extra-thick-cut-bacon, blood sausage or Eggs Benedict ($9.95), Polish ham, homemade everything bun*, Hollandaise sauce w/ vodka, poached eggs — all worthy of breaking your diet. For those staying on plan, you’ll be happy to know that Delightful Pastries can accommodate you with an egg white omelet loaded with healthy veggies.
Mother’s Day is one of the busiest restaurant holidays. Why not considering surprising Mom with a beautiful catered brunch at home? Delightful Pastries recommends treating Mom and the family with their delicious tray of Quiche Bites, the perfect solution to groups with varying tastes. Choose from Frittata, Gruyere and Ham; Potato; Lamb and Spinach pie, or Vegan with Mushroom. Trays feature 18 pieces and can be ordered in any combination for $42 per tray.
- Vegetable Quiche – Sautéed mushrooms, spinach, leeks and onions, mixed with Swiss cheese and filled in a French pastry crust.
- Ham & Swiss Quiche – Creamy quiche filled with cubes of Krakus ham and Swiss cheese.
- Leek and Gruyere Quiche – Local leeks sautéed until tender, mixed with Gruyere and topped with custard in a French pastry crust.
- Spinach Lamb Pie – Layers of delicious lamb filling, topped with spinach and béchamel sauce in a French pastry crust.
- Frittata – Potato, caramelized onion, zucchini, yellow pepper, fresh herbs and Fontina cheese.
Throw a Mother’s Day Dessert Bash Start a new Mother’s Day tradition at home and throw a Mother’s Day Dessert Bash. Delightful Pastries makes it easy. Their beautiful desserts are perfect for showing Mom how sweet she is.
This year, Delightful Pastries will be featuring Mousse Hearts ($4 each or 2 for $6), loaded with passion fruit mousse or chocolate mousse, and Mother’s Day Spring Cakes ($30) with either raspberry jam or apricot jam and finished with swirls of luscious buttercream.
Can’t decide? The Delightful tray of mini pastries ($40/small, 25-30 pieces; $80/large, 55-60 pieces) is for you. You don’t have to choose, trays come with everything: tiramisu, chocolate mousse cups, fruit tarts, cannoli, éclairs, ganache tarts, key lime pies, lemon curd blueberry tart, boozy coconut macaroons, German chocolate cake, black forest torte and berry compote mousse cup.
If you or Mom are gluten intolerant, don’t worry. Delightful Pastries offers an array of Gluten-Free Mini Pastries (30 pieces for $30). Pick up a tray featuring chocolate mousse berry cups, lemon mousse topped with blueberries, strawberry custard trifle, caramel panna cotta, raspberry mousse cups, praline truffles, passion fruit truffles, and French macarons in assorted flavors.
Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Delightful Pastries welcomes the return of its chocolate dipped strawberries, a most appropriate “I love you” gift for Mom and don’t forget to treat yourself; these huge Belgium chocolate dipped delights are hard to pass up.
Perhaps the most luscious strawberry treat this May is Delightful Pastries’ Strawberry Shortcake Paczki which makes its return for Strawberry Month as well as Strawberry & Cream Day, May 21.
Going to a Memorial Day Party? Don’t Forget to Bring Your Delightful Pastries.
Memorial Day, May 26, is the unofficial start of grilling season. No outdoor party would be complete without a terrific dessert. Delightful Pastries makes it easy for you to be the standout guest or host. Bring an assortment of Delightful international cookies ($35 per tray for about 50 cookies; $19/pound) – they offer a yummy selection including buttery Linzer, mouthwatering Mexican Wedding, melt-in-your-mouth Viennese Almond Crescents, egg-free crunchy Irish Pistachio Shortbread, buttery French Pecan Sables and a host of Polish Kolaczki (raspberry, apricot, cheese and others). Don’t forget, Delightful Pastries’ highly regarded French Macarons make a wonderful hostess gift. You’ll be the hit of the party. All cookies are filled with locally made preserves.
National Macaroon Day is May 31. Celebrate at Delightful Pastries and Enjoy Chicago’s Best, including its news Boozy Coconut Macaroon with Vodka and Chocolate Buttercream.
Delightful Pastries has been named as one of the top locations in Chicago to enjoy traditional French Macarons (Chicago Now, March 12, 2013). If you haven’t already experienced a Delightful macaron, May 31 is the perfect day to try. It’s National Macaroon Day. There are two distinctively different kinds of macaroons, thus the spelling difference. Delightful happens to excel at both. Their French Macaron will save you the trip to Paris. Rivaling the best that the City of Lights has to offer, Delightful Pastries offers a variety including chocolate, black currant, marzipan, passion fruit, raspberry, hazelnut, pistachio and mango, $30 per pound or about $1 each.
For the traditional Italian coconut Macaroon, Delightful has two large and worthy varieties, plain and one dipped in dark Belgium chocolate for $1.75 each. They recently added a new boozy coconut macaroon which features a macaroon base and a vodka and chocolate buttercream, $30 per pound.
For more information please visit www.delightfulpastries.com.
