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Restaurant Hospitality
39 desserts that tap the spirit of the holiday season
Anna.Kang Dec 18, 2017

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L’Adresse
L’Adresse

Customers at the New York City location of Moscow-based restaurant group Coffeemania can enjoy the Snowman, made with vanilla-cream-filled choux pastry, white chocolate glaze and a buttercream scarf. The dessert, priced at $12, can also be boxed as a holiday gift.

Bravo Cucina Italiana
Bravo Cucina Italiana

The Columbus, Ohio-based casual-dining chain is serving a crème brûlée trio as part of its two-course menu, through Dec. 29. The three-part sweet comes in peppermint, hot cocoa and vanilla bean.

Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill
Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill

The Las Vegas dining destination is serving peppermint hot cocoa crème brûlée for $12 through Dec. 25. The dessert is made of a hot cocoa-custard base with crystallized caramel, fudge brownie bites, candy-cane-flavored whipped cream and peppermint candy.

The Hummus & Pita Co.
The Hummus & Pita Co.

The Mediterranean restaurant based in New York City is giving hummus a holiday twist, as a dessert. The hummus dips are available in chocolate chip cookie dough, vanilla cake batter, fudgy chocolate and eggnog varieties, and comes with housemade cinnamon-dusted pita chips.

Gigi’s Cupcakes
Gigi’s Cupcakes

Gigi’s Cupcakes, headquartered in Dallas, has a host of winter flavors – chocolate peanut pretzel, caramel brûlée and peppermint chocolate – on the menu through Jan. 31, 2018.

Gigi’s Jingle Box
Gigi’s Cupcakes

The cupcake chain also offers a Jingle Box, a decorated assortment of six vanilla and six devil’s food cupcakes.

Goro Ramen
Goro Ramen

The ramen shop in Oklahoma City has a seasonal dessert: eggnog ice cream, made with eggnog and whiskey, and topped with sesame brittle crumble and black lava salt. The ice cream is available through December for $5.

Eatzi’s Market & Bakery
Kathy Tran

Dallas-based Eatzi’s Market & Bakery has multiple holiday goodies on the menu until Dec. 24, like chocolate mice – almond cookies covered with chocolate ganache and glaze – priced at $2.99 each.

Dough
Dough

This Tampa, Fla., bakery is serving gingerbread people Florida-style, with a beachside look. The twist on this holiday classic is available for $5 each through December.

Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins

The Canton, Mass.-based frozen-treat chain is embracing the holiday season with two cakes: a new Winter Wonderland cake, an ice cream cake decorated with blue icing, white chocolate and glitter; and a Fudge Yule Log cake, a chocolate cake rolled together with mint chocolate chip ice cream and white icing, topped with three red candles and holly leaves.

Baskin-Robbins’ December flavor
Baskin-Robbins

In addition to the cakes, Baskin-Robbins is serving a new December Flavor of the Month: York Peppermint Pattie, or mint-flavored ice cream mixed with mini York peppermint patties and a dark chocolate-mint ribbon.

Clinton Hall
Clinton Hall

The New York City spot is partnering with ice cream shop Tipsy Scoop to create the Apple of My IPA Waffle for the holiday season. The Christmas-themed waffle features Tipsy Scoop’s IPA apple ice cream infused with Clinton Hall’s IPA beer, a salted caramel candied apple, candy apple rings and caramel lollipops.

Salt & Straw
Salt & Straw

The ice cream chain, based in Portland, Ore., is offering holiday present options. A Pints of the Month club subscription entitles the receiver to five pints of Salt & Straw’s limited-edition monthly flavor series for three, six or 12 months. Other options are the Pick Your Own gift pack, a $65 one-time delivery of five customizable pints, and gift cards, which are available online and in stores. One of the seasonal flavors Salt & Straw developed is peppermint cocoa, a mix of homemade peppermint patties and chocolate ice cream.

Salt & Straw’s Apple Brandy & Pecan Pie ice cream
Salt & Straw

Another scoop for the holidays is Apple Brandy & Pecan Pie ice cream, vanilla custard ice cream spiked with apple brandy and churned with chunks of homemade pecan pie.

Salt & Straw’s Gingerbread Cookie Dough ice cream
Salt & Straw

This yuletide flavor is made with molasses cookie butter, rum royal icing ice cream and pieces of gingerbread.

Brio Tuscan Grille
Brio Tuscan Grille

As a seasonal dessert, the casual-dining chain, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, has white chocolate berry bread pudding, served with vanilla bean gelato, housemade berry sauce and crème anglaise, priced at $6.95.

Gelateria Uli
Gelateria Uli

Located in Los Angeles, Gelateria Uli has holiday flavors lined up for customers, like halva gelato, made with tahini, milk, cream, sugar, all-natural stabilizers and an optional all-natural blue food coloring for Hanukkah. Another seasonal option is white chocolate peppermint gelato, made with milk, cream, white chocolate, sugar, all-natural stabilizers and pulverized peppermint candy.

Gelateria Uli’s affogato
Gelateria Uli

The shop also offers zabaglione Italian eggnog gelato affogato, a mixture of milk, cream, sugar, all-natural stabilizers, egg yolks and Marsala wine. The dessert is served with two cups of espresso poured on top.

Tipsy Scoop
Tipsy Scoop

Tipsy Scoop in New York City is collaborating with Popbar to make $5 boozy holiday popsicles. Blood Orange Champagne Sparkler pop is dipped in chocolate and chocolate sprinkles, and the Rum N’ Eggnog gelato is served on a stick with white chocolate and waffle cone pieces. Both flavors are available at Tipsy Scoop and Popbar through December.

CREAM
CREAM

Customers at CREAM, or “Cookies Rule Everything Around Me,” based in Berkeley, Calif., can enjoy the holiday season with the dessert spot’s Hot & Perfect Mini Pies, served in apple, blueberry or cherry, and available à la mode with ice cream and a sprinkle of edible gold glitter.

CRAFTkitchen
CRAFTkitchen

CRAFTkitchen, located in Henderson, Nev., is taking orders by phone for its Christmas baskets until Dec. 19. A basket is priced at $45 and contains one bag each of organic ground coffee, housemade granola, chocolate almond brittle, white candy cane bark with crushed peppermint, chocolate almond clusters and housemade jam.

Bang Cookies
Bang Cookies

This cookie shop in Jersey City, N.J., is offering a ginger molasses cookie for holiday shoppers, both in-store and online for shipping nationwide.

TCBY
TCBY

The quick-service chain, headquartered in Broomfield, Colo., is serving peppermint frozen yogurt throughout the season, available as soft-serve and hand-scooped

Pitchoun! Bakery
Pitchoun! Bakery

From now until Dec. 25, the Los Angeles bakery offers festive pastries like a reindeer éclair, or a pate à choux decorated to look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Pitchoun! Yule log
Pitchoun! Bakery

Pitchoun! also has Yule logs on its menu, such as the Red Dress, an almond sponge cake with streusel, vanilla mousse and red berry hearts.

Becky’s Bites
Becky’s Bites

Becky’s Bites in New York City is selling $5 Santa’s Cookies snack packs: sugar cookies with a Christmas-style sweet cream cheese dip.

Acacia House
Gamma Nine

Acacia House in St. Helena, Calif., is hosting its first annual Feast of Seven Cultures, where six guest chefs will each prepare a dinner menu every day starting Dec. 18. The weeklong event ends on Dec. 24 with chef and co-owner Chris Cosentino’s special tasting menu, which features a Meyer lemon, Buddha’s hand citron and fennel yule log as a dessert.

Saint Lou’s Assembly
Clayton Hauck

The Chicago restaurant is inviting customers to gather around a fire pit and watch a holiday film on its backyard patio on Dec. 21 with holiday-themed s’mores kits containing peppermint chocolate bark.

Little Dom’s
Little Dom’s

Located in Los Angeles, the Italian eatery is selling zeppola, deep-fried dough balls with powdered sugar, red sauce and whipped cream.

Trademark Taste + Grind
In Good Company Hospitality

The New York City spot is taking pie orders until 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Two flavors available are poached pear and almond streusel pie for $29, and milk chocolate cultured caramel popcorn pie for $32. Customers who order two pies get 10 percent off, and those who order three pies get 15 percent off. For four pies purchased, there is a free fifth pie. Slices are available for individual dine-in guests for $6 each.

Water Grill
Alan de Herrera

For the holiday crowd with a sweet tooth, Water Grill, based in Los Angeles, is offering a caramel bread pudding with alaea salt, or an unrefined sea salt mixed with volcanic red clay, and caramel ice cream.

Shake Shack
Shake Shack

The New York City-based fast-casual chain is churning up festive shakes through Jan. 2, 2018. The holiday offer comes in three flavors: frozen hot cocoa, Christmas cookie and chocolate peppermint.

Dunkin’ Donuts
Dunkin’ Donuts

Dunkin’ Donuts, headquartered in Canton, Mass., is getting into the seasonal spirit with its new Frosted Sugar Cookie Donut, filled with cookie-dough-flavored filling and topped with frosted sugar cookie bits, and its new Gingerbread Cookie Donut, frosted with caramel glaze and sprinkled with gingersnap cookies. The chain also offers the Snowflake Sprinkle Donut, decorated with red icing and snowflake sprinkles.

MilkMade
MilkMade

The ice cream company’s tasting room in Brooklyn, N.Y., offers seasonal scoops in December. The Eggnog + is eggnog ice cream with gingerbread women.

MilkMade’s Krampus Kreme
MilkMade

The Krampus Kreme flavor, a tribute to Saint Nick’s companion in Germanic folklore, is dark chocolate ice cream with notes of birch bark, candy cane pieces and chocolate brownies.

MilkMade’s Gløgg
MilkMade

This holiday scoop is based on the Scandinavian mulled wine and mixed with cabernet caramel swirl and Aquavit-soaked raisins.

Wendy’s
Wendy’s

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, this quick-service chain is holding its annual Frosty Key Tag sale. The key tag, priced at $2, entitles the holder to a free Jr. Frosty with any purchase every day for a whole year. A percentage of the proceeds goes to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a nonprofit organization benefitting children in foster care.

Maison Kayser
Maison Kayser

This Parisian bakery’s American branch, based in New York City, has a lineup of decadent bûche de Noël, or Yule logs, to bring holiday cheer to the table this year. The seasonal cakes come in dark chocolate, berry and chestnut for $42 each.

Creamistry
Creamistry

Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., this ice cream chain is offering a limited-time holiday menu featuring Milk & Cookies ice cream, a chocolate chip cookie ice cream topped with fudge and a chocolate chip cookie, and White Chocolate Peppermint ice cream, white chocolate ice cream with peppermint candy flakes, chocolate curls and a mini peppermint candy. Either flavor can be served in a festive cone, the Red Velvet Waffle.

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