Sometimes you do not need a whole cake to celebrate. You need one very good small thing, on a walk, on a Tuesday, for no particular reason.
That is most of what sits in our cabinet, and it is the part of the menu people discover last.
The individual patisserie
Each of our mini desserts is a complete dessert at one-person scale — several components, several textures, no compromise for the size.
The lemon tart is pastry, curd and torched meringue. The Ferrari Rocher is a flourless hazelnut and chocolate cake with Nutella mousse under a dark chocolate coating, and it is made with no added gluten. The Romeo & Juliet pairs white chocolate cheesecake with guava jam on a no-added-gluten shortcrust. On both of those, our kitchen is small and without exclusive production areas for all of 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, and the Banoffee Cookie Tart is the most cheerful thing in the cabinet.
Things that travel
Some treats are for now and some are for a handbag. Our packaged range covers the second category: our layered Honey Cake, dense Brownie Bites, Bon-Bons and buttery fruit biscuits.
And brigadeiro, at $2, which is the most Brazilian two dollars you can spend in this city — more on that here.
A slice counts as a small thing
Our signature cakes are available as single slices, which is both a treat and a research method — taste the one you are considering before ordering a whole one for a birthday. Our guide to buying by the slice covers where to start.
Or the smallest thing of all
Petit fours are one perfect mouthful each — ten flavours, made to order with seven days' notice, which puts them in the "planning an event" category rather than the "walking past" one.
What to have with it
An espresso, a pot of organic Zealong tea, or a dark Belgian hot chocolate — full drinks list here, and there is a whole piece on pairing coffee with cake.
Sweet treats as a gift
The same small things, boxed properly, become a gift box — several include a handmade Curios ceramic and New Zealand-grown Zealong tea alongside the food. See our gifts page, or our piece on corporate gifting.
Where
The cabinet is stocked 10am to 6pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am to 3pm on Saturday at our patisserie inside The Welder on Welles Street. Nothing needs ordering ahead. Just come in.
