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-Oakleaf Cakes Team
We are in the process of updating our website (7-4-14). The process should be concluded in the coming days. Thanks for your patience!
-Oakleaf Cakes Team
Posted on July 4, 2014 by oakleaf - FrontPageBlurb
While we might be world-famous for our amazingly artistic wedding cakes and sculpted cakes, what truly makes our bakery special receives much less publicity: effort. It’s our secret ingredient. We don’t have to grind each cup of coffee individually, or hand squeeze our orange juice a cup at a time, or insist that everything we bake and sell is made on-site from raw ingredients. If we could bring ourselves to use mixes, or frozen doughs, or a buttercream recipe that doesn’t take 5x longer to make, our lives would be much easier – but that’s not who we are.
We are here because some things are more important than profit margins, convenience or cheap calories. If we don’t make life-sized cakes of Star Wars characters, few others can, and if we don’t serve the type of skill and labor-intensive foods that we serve, no one else will. Every day customers tell us: “I don’t like cake, but this is good!” or “I don’t like fondant, but this is amazing!” or “This is the best orange juice I’ve ever had!” But the truth is that there is no magic here. You just saw us squeeze the oranges directly into your cup. That’s why it’s different. That’s why it’s better. To our surprise, making real food by hand from raw ingredients has proven more novel than even our most whimsical wedding cake. We truly hope that you enjoy our food as much as we have loved making it.
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Available Goodies:
Dessert: French Macarons, Cookies, Brownies, Poptarts, Marshmallows, Rice Cereal Treats, Whoopie Pies, Biscotti, Linzer Cookies, Coconut Macaroons, Regular Cupcakes, and Mini Cupcakes.
Breakfast: Muffins, Sticky Buns, Cinnamon Rolls, Croissants, Scones, Poptarts, Granola Bars, Fruit Breakfast Bars, Danishes, and Sweet Breads.
*Inquire about what Vegan are options available.
*Inquire for available specific flavor options per item.
Sweet Package:
$10/person. Choose any 4 of the above goodies. Enough goodies for each person to take 2-3 items.
Sweetest Package:
$17/person. Choose any 7 of the above goodies. Enough goodies for each person to take 2-3 items.
50 person minimum order for all dessert/breakfast bars.
Stand and platter rentals available for additional cost.
Custom cakes priced separately.
Delivery fees additional, based on location.
Dessert Bars can be baked to simply provide an array of delicious goodies or built to match a certain color scheme/theme as seen below. If you would like your desserts to match certain colors just let us know and we’d be happy to recommend what color and flavor combos would look best!
Pictured above, from left to right: Toasted Coconut Marshmallows, Super Fudge Brownies, Chocolate Cherry Poptarts, Vanilla and Chocolate Cupcakes with Italian Meringue Buttercream, Custom Wedding Cake decorated with our Marshmallow Fondant, Chocolate and Lemon Macaroons, More Poptarts, and Vanilla Marshmallows.
Complete Styling of above Dessert Bar done by members of Boston Betrothed.
Pictured above, from left to right: French Macaroons with blueberry filling, handmade vanilla marshmallows, Custom buttercream frosted 3-tiered cake, nutella-filled pop tarts, chocolate raspberry whoopie pies, buttercream frosted ‘smash cake’.
Breakfast Bars can be baked to order to provide your morning gathering with a much needed pick-me-up. We’ll bake an assortment of baked goods in seasonal flavors as a healthier alternative to our usual desserts. Should you choose to add hot coffee we’ll bring the cups, cream and sugar just choose your roast from our coffee menu.
If you’re interested in a Breakfast or Dessert bar for your upcoming event call, click, or stop by to discuss the possibilities.
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Every single day, before dawn even thinks about cracking, our bakers are cracking eggs, mixing, and baking away so you can have a completely new selection of delicious goodies. Where most bakeries are content to simply “bake” on site (AKA freezer-to-oven bakeries), we do all of our baking from raw ingredients in small batches. For this reason, much of our selection is completely different every single day based on what’s in season. Here’s some of the fun stuff that we do:
These are like mini hand pies made with a flaky pie dough, made fresh everyday, and filled with whatever’s in season. Flavors range from triple berry jam in the summer, to pumpkin pie filling in the fall and chocolate peppermint ganache in the winter. These sell out fast so get here early.
Who said healthy and delicious have to be mutually exclusive? We make our granola and breakfast bars on site from nuts, berries, honey, oats, and other magical energy boosters. They’re the perfect grab-and-go breakfast food for when you’re headed to work or out on your morning jog and need that extra boost of energy without all the guilt.
We always have our three basic gourmet flavors of cupcakes, which are Yellow, Red Velvet and Chocolate, available in our case everyday. Beyond that our bakers bake off extra batter from custom cakes which are new and different every week. Some weeks we might have pina colada cupcakes and another week we might have strawberries and champagne cupcakes. Our decorators are given the creative freedom to mix and match cupcakes and buttercream as they see fit. Stop by to see what we have today!
-Cupcakes are also available with customized decorations if you order in advance.
*Vegan cupcake options available
Muffins, more hearty than cupcakes, also change with the seasons. In late spring we love making rhubarb muffins with rhubarb from the farmers market and in the fall we have a pumpkin streusel muffin that is to die for.
*Vegan muffin options available
We always make our own cookie dough and our cookies are baked off fresh every morning. Our confetti sugar cookies are always popular with the colors changing with each passing holiday. Some of our other customer favorites are chocolate chunk cookies and vegan peanut butter cookies.
*Vegan cookie options available
Scones are baked in small batches to ensure they stay fresh all day. A couple staff favorites are the chocolate chip scones and the cranberry orange scones. Sometimes a little (a lot) self control is necessary to work here.
Our bakers have perfected the art of baking cheesecake. Our cheesecakes are made from scratch with a shortbread cookie crust, bake up extra tall and are decorated with Italian meringue buttercream. We always have a few flavors available in our display case everyday. Our cheesecakes come in 3 sizes. 9″ (feeds 16), 7″ (feeds 9), and a mini cheesecake that you could share with one other person but only if you wanted to. Like the rest of our baked goods cheesecake flavors change with the seasons. Our summer favorite is coconut lime cheesecake while our cappuccino cheesecake is a year round delight.
Decadence in a cup. These cute little cups are brimming over with our very own house-made mouses, creams, and fillings. From our refreshing Lemon Dream trifle, to our rich and creamy Brownie Bliss, to a million other amazing combos, these creamy trifle cups are hands down our new favorite thing.
Our brownies are probably the only thing we make that is always the same. If you’ve got a craving for some serious chocolate these brownies are for you. No messing around. Just a seriously chocolatey, fudgey brownie. (without nuts!) Sometimes we spice things up and make Aztec chocolate brownies.
*Vegan brownie options available
After we made it once customers came back looking for it and esentially demanded we always have our banana chocolate chip bread available. In addition to banana bread we usually have one other bread choosing from coffee cake bread, zucchini bread, and even cranberry orange walnut bread. Bread is available by the slice if you’re dining in or you can buy the whole loaf to take home to share (or not).
These are really fun, and really messy, to make. Our most popular flavor is the toasted coconut marshmallow. The contrasting textures of the crispy coconut and silky smooth mallow is amazing. In the winter months try one of our vanilla marshmallows in your hot chocolate.
We also make french macarons. The are made using almond flour so they are gluten free. They are available in several flavors from plain vanilla, chocolate fudge to lemon curd. These are a special occasion item so it would be best to order these in advance.
Whoopies are for people who really enjoy their frosting to cake ratio to highly favor the frosting. Most whoopies are filled with a marshmallow fluff frosting, while sometimes we fill the chocolate whoopies with peanut butter frosting. The customer favorite is probably a tie between the oatmeal cream pies and red velvet whoopies.
Whether you have a egg or dairy allergy or eating vegan is a lifestyle choice we always have several vegan baked goods everyday. Options include at least one cookie, one muffin and one-two cupcake flavors. We occasionally make treats that are just dairy free, just ask us when you’re in next time.
We are not a gluten free bakery so if you have a serious allergy please take caution when ordering. However, we do offer two items that are gluten free. Our marshmallows and our macaroons are both gluten free.
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Do you know what’s in your juice? Our customers do. Delicious Florida Red Valencia oranges. That’s it. And we think you’ll agree that it’s the best juice you’ve ever had.
If you buy orange juice from a store, it’s often undergone various types of treatment – most of it to the point where it can barely be described as juice anymore. Even if you get the most premium, 100% natural, guaranteed to be the real-deal juice, the extraction methods used by large commercial juicers often compromise the juice by inevitably mixing it with bitter outer rind of the orange.
Our squeezing process avoids this. Using our high-tech ZUMMO juicer, our oranges are sliced, squeezed and extracted while you watch. The process is delicate enough that the juice never comes into contact with the rind at any time in the juicing process, meaning that your juice couldn’t be purer. It’s so good, in fact, that some of our most loyal customers can even distinguish between the different Florida farms where the oranges were grown.
As with our orange juice, our lemonade is as pure as possible, using only lemons, sugar, and H20. The lemons are sliced and squeezed by hand while you watch. If you want to spice things up, we also offer strawberry and raspberry flavors for ultimate refreshing goodness!
Now this is something special. We make our own custom hot chocolate mixes from raw ingredients in house. We have two different varieties, a warm and comforting traditional Hot Cocoa, as well as a spicy Aztec Hot Chocolate that has cinnamon, dark cocoa and cayenne pepper for that little extra kick.
But as cool as that is, it’s nothing compared to the real star of the show: HAND MADE MARSHMALLOWS! If you’ve never had a real, hand made marshmallow your life is incomplete. This is one heavenly dessert that Jet Puff just couldn’t replicate. We chunk them into huge squares and put them on the side of your cup like a wedge of lemon. Bon-Freakin-Appetit!
What do you get when you take our amazing orange juice, lemonade, and iced teas and mix them into a bunch of different fun and adventurous combinations? Awesomesauce. Oh, and these really cool drink combos:
Arnold Palmer: This bad boy is a 50-50 mix of our cold brewed English Breakfast iced tea and our hand squeezed lemonade.
Green Tea-Ade: Like the Arney, this is a 50-50 mix of lemonade and tea, but with our Golden Green iced tea this time.
Sunrise Squeeze: This drink is as good looking as it is delicious. From bottom to top, it is strawberry, OJ, and lemonade in a beautiful ombre explosion of flavor.
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When it comes to tea, nothing is more critical than having fresh high-quality ingredients, paired with a really solid brew method. To make sure that our tea is top notch, we brew only MEM loose leaf teas. MEM Tea Imports is another exceptional local business that is almost as famous for the quality of their teas as we are for cake!
To make sure that your tea is brewed to perfection, we hot brew each of our teas using our aeropress brewing machines. This allows us to custom tailor the perfect brew cycle for each strand of tea we serve.
For iced tea, we employ a traditional cold-brew methodology to ensure that the tea isn’t shocked by radical temperature changes usually associated with brew methods used at larger corporate coffee houses.
Lastly, our Spicy Chai Tea Lattes are made with a 50-50 blend of tea and milk using a concentrated Chai tea that we brew from loose leaves on-site. Our Chai tea lattes are available either iced or steamed, and have a flavor that is beyond description.
YOU CAN NOW ORDER YOUR DRINKS ONLINE FOR PICKUP IN 15 MINS! –> OUR ONLINE STORE
Not satisfied with making seven foot tall movie characters out of cake, we decided to try our hand at coffee. When we opened our first storefront in Winthrop the space was not set up for serving coffee, but with our move to Boston in the fall of 2013 we thought we’d give it a try. Naturally we way out-did ourselves.
Sure we could have opted for a middle of the road coffee set up, with fancy machines that did most of the work for us, but where’s the fun in that? No, instead we opted to grind every single cup of coffee and espresso by hand to order. While many high end espresso shops do grind to order currently, NO ONE grinds their coffees to order. To see how we do it, check out the illustration below!
Choose your beans. Be sure to make direct eye contact with your beans. As they are being ground just for you, it is the only honorable course of action.
The beans you have just selected are ground fresh while you wait. Because of our unique aeropress brew method we are able to grind the beans incredibly coarse, which means that you get all the flavor of the bean, without unlocking so many of the nasty, bitter bits.
Your coffee is individually brewed, just for you in our Trifecta aeropress machines. In traditional drip brewers, water channels through the grounds. As it channels, it erodes paths for itself causing some areas to over-extract, while other areas are not extracted at all! This leads to bitterness and that “Charbucks” flavor. Our brew method shoots jets of air into the coffee at predetermined strengths and intervals, ensuring that all grounds are equally extracted, using the perfect amount of force and brew time for each individual bean variety. Plus it’s fun to watch!
You’ve got coffee! In less than the two minutes since you placed your order, we’ve gone from whole beans to your lips. It’s not just marketing when we say we have the freshest coffee in Boston! With such a quick brew cycle, more of the tasty bits of the coffee bean go in your tummy, instead of evaporating off of the grinds, or separating out in the pot. When you combine that with the benefits of a completely even brew cycle uniquely tailored to each bean variety… let’s just say you’re in for a treat!
Our roaster is Barrington Coffee Roasting Co. of Lee, Massachusetts. They are, much like us, that rare bread of a small, local business, who has become world renowned for their quality and craftsmanship. They source their beans directly from individual farmers, which is where many of the beans’ names come from. While different types of beans do rotate seasonally from time to time, these are the strands we are currently brewing:
Ground-to-order Aeropress Brewed Coffee
Cold brewed iced coffee (Yirgacheffe)
Espresso Shot
Espresso Macchiato
Espresso Con Panna
Traditional Cappuccino
Cafe` Latte (available iced or hot)
Mocha Latte
Vanilla Latte
Caramel Latte
Hazelnut Latte
Americano (available iced or hot)
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