’Tis the season for sweets! If you’re too busy to bake your festive favorites this year, these local bakeries across the state have pastry cases brimming with delectable holiday treats.
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5 Items for Your December To-Do List
Eat, shop, learn, and celebrate what North Carolina has to offer this month.
Brown Sugar Breakfast Tarts
Forget the store-bought treat: Spread icing over these warm, homemade tarts and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar to impress children and adults alike.
Maple-Pecan Coffee Cake
We recommend adding North Carolina-grown nuts to this maple-pecan coffee cake — a Christmas morning classic.
The Miracle of the Oil
When cultures collided in one family’s Raleigh kitchen, a new food tradition — part Jewish, part Southern Baptist — was born. Two treats served each year for Hanukkah — latkes and sufganiyot, or jelly doughnuts — got updates. The Jewish husband was mesmerized. The Southern wife had a secret.
Aunt Nancy’s Cookies
A writer in Greensboro recalls how a favorite relative arrived each December, bearing shirt boxes brimming with old-school gems.
5 Vintage Cookie Recipes
Cocoa-dusted sugar balls, cream wafers, featherweight butter cookies — these sweet recipes are straight from the land of the TV dinner.
A Sweet Legacy at Mickey’s Pastry Shop
For 75 years, a Goldsboro bakery has forged a special bond with its customers — one birthday cake, cream pie, cookie, and pastry at a time.
The Full Package at Farmer and the Dail
A Greene County bakery outgrew its former space thanks, in part, to the popularity of its generously loaded biscuits and baked goods — just like the ones you’d get at Grandma’s house.
