A whole cake is not always the answer. Sometimes you want one very good small thing, on a walk, on a Tuesday, for no reason.
Most of our cabinet is exactly that, and people find it last.
The individual patisserie
Each of our mini desserts is a complete dessert at one-person scale: several components, several textures, no shortcuts.
The lemon tart runs pastry, curd, torched meringue: crisp, then sharp, then a sweet cloud collapsing on the tongue. The Ferrari Rocher hides a flourless hazelnut and chocolate cake under Nutella mousse and dark chocolate that cracks at the fork, made with no added gluten. The Romeo & Juliet sets white chocolate cheesecake against guava jam on a no-added-gluten shortcrust. On both, our kitchen is small, without exclusive production areas for our different recipes, so traces may occur and nothing is guaranteed safe for severe coeliac disease.
Pudim caramel flan is Brazil's dense, silky answer to crème caramel, glazed in caramel gone slightly bitter at the edge. The Banoffee Cookie Tart is the most cheerful thing in the cabinet: a chocolate chip cookie baked into a tart shell, filled with caramel.
Things that travel
Some are for now, some for a handbag. Our packaged range covers the second: layered Honey Cake in its dark chocolate jacket, dense Brownie Bites, Bon-Bons and buttery guava biscuits that shatter into crumbs.
Then brigadeiro, at $2: sticky, chewy, the most Brazilian two dollars you can spend in this city, and more on that here.
A slice counts as a small thing
Our signature cakes come by the single slice. Call it a treat. Call it research: taste the one you are considering before ordering a whole one as a birthday cake. Our guide to buying by the slice covers where to start.
Or the smallest thing of all
Petit fours are one mouthful each: ten flavours, made to order, seven days' notice. Planning, not passing by.
What to have with it
An espresso, a pot of organic Zealong tea, or a dark Belgian hot chocolate, thick and faintly bitter. Full drinks list here, plus a piece on pairing coffee with cake.
Take the table by the window. Press the meringue flat with a teaspoon, watch it spring back, eat the tart in four goes while the tea cools.
Sweet treats as a gift
The same small things, boxed properly, become a gift box. Several add a handmade Curios ceramic and New Zealand-grown Zealong tea. See our gifts page, or our piece on corporate gifting.
Just come in
Stocked 10am to 9pm Tuesday to Saturday, at our patisserie inside The Welder on Welles Street. Most of it needs no notice: walk in, point, pay. Trays want warning: two days for mini cakes, seven for petit fours. Collection only, in person, because we do not deliver.
