Table Talk a look at Christmas Confections
Louisa’s Bakery
1039 Woodley Road • Montgomery, AL 36106 334.356.1212
Besides supplying Café Louisa with baked goods to go along with your coffee and espresso, Louisa’s Bakery offers a lot more in their storefront location on Woodley Road. With a wide selection of fresh baked breads, specialty cakes, pies, cookies and tarts, Louisa’s flavors the holidays with iced and sprinkled sugar cookies, maple pecan tarts, pumpkin pies and cheesecake, decorated petit fours, truffles, and gingerbread men – and gingerbread women too! I must admit that there is a twisted Voodoo-esque nature in all of us when it comes to eating gingerbread people – I refuse to believe it is only me! “Really, Mark?” you might ask. “Oh, yes! I mean, where do YOU take the first bite?” But oh how delicious the “snap” of ginger is in this favorite holiday treat! And besides the festively decorated people, Louisa’s also sells gingerbread house kits. The kits are only
sold once a year, and the Café holds a contest, usually the weekend before Christmas, for the best gingerbread house. Gift certificates are donated by local merchants as prizes. I am fond of bittersweet chocolate – overly sweet is just not my thing. Bittersweet chocolate is complex in taste, giving you the promise of sweet with the overtone of something that has been toasted or smoked. Louisa’s “Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles” give you all of that, plus the woodsy flavor of hazelnuts. They are an adult holiday treat – the simple sophistication of a “little black dress,” the amber aroma of a good quality Scotch, and the warm crackling of a mid-winter fire – all in one rich bite. We may all celebrate different holidays with different traditions, but gathering together to “treat” ourselves with a little extra “somethin’ somethin’” is something we can all take delight in. I mean, isn’t it better to give than to receive? Here at Louisa’s bakery, there is plenty to choose for the giving – that promises to make the receiving deliciously joyful too!