Holiday Tip Sheet: Food

December 1, 2000
SWEET TREATS
Collin Street Bakery, located 50 miles south of Dallas, has been baking its world-famous fruitcakes for more than 100 years.

Creative Cakes Inc. will ship custom decorated gingerbread houses (or kits to make your own) from Silver Spring, Maryland.

Creative Cakes Inc. (another one--this one's in New York) also does holiday cakes--customized three-dimensional chocolate and vanilla ones.

Kosher Cornucopia makes cookies shaped like menorahs, dreidels or the Star of David. Also: gift baskets including a dreidel-shaped cookie jar of holiday items.

Manhattan Fruitier makes great fruit baskets, including a chocolate fondue and fruit set.

Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland has a decadent house specialty: champagne truffles--a blend of fresh cream, butter and chocolate with a champagne cream center, dusted with confectioner's sugar.

More Sweet Treats...
Black Hound New York
Cakes 'N Shapes
Empress Chocolate Company
Li-Lac Chocolate
Sylvia Weinstock Cakes

KOSHER CATERERS FOR HANUKKAH
Abigael's
Classic Caterers
Delancey Dessert Company
Foremost Glatt Kosher Caterers
Karen's Fabulous Biscotti & Company
Le Chocolat
Manna Catering
Mansoura
World of Chantilly

CAVIAR SUPPLIERS
Caviarteria
Paramount Caviar
Petrossian

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Colette's Cakes makes incredible three-dimensional cakes. Our favorites: the snowmen (above), polar bears and penguins she did for the Clintons in 1998. And she just got back from another trip to the White House.
Colette's Cakes makes incredible three-dimensional cakes. Our favorites: the snowmen (above), polar bears and penguins she did for the Clintons in 1998. And she just got back from another trip to the White House.
St. Clair Ice Cream Company makes Christmas trees, Yule logs, snowballs and other holiday-inspired pieces, all out of ice cream or sorbet.
St. Clair Ice Cream Company makes Christmas trees, Yule logs, snowballs and other holiday-inspired pieces, all out of ice cream or sorbet.
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