What’s better at Christmas, pie, cookies or gingerbread? Here’s where to sample them all
When you’re doing your Christmas shopping, don’t forget your pie shopping.
The deadline for pie orders is coming up, so don’t slip up and forget that pie for Santa or Christmas Day.
The Black Rooster Cafe, one of Fort Worth’s busy local artisan bakeshops, sells pies, cookies and gingerbread for Christmas, along with its quiche Lorraine or butternut squash quiche.
Owner Immy Khan has been combining the Black Rooster’s west side location with the older Lunch Box sandwich cafe next door in the Village at Camp Bowie.
Both shops will host an open house and dessert tasting from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Order now for pickup Dec. 21-24.
For lunch, try one of the Lunch Box’s traditional chicken salad or tuna salad sandwiches on the Black Rooster’s harvest grain bread ($6.95 including a side).
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For dessert, order Lunch Box meringue pie or a gingerbread tea cake from the Black Rooster.
And the Lunch Box also has upgraded its coffee. It now pours Craftwork Coffee Co.’s special blend from Craftwork’s three local coffee cafes.
New sandwiches such as a Cuban and a muffuletta will be added next year, Khan said.
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The Black Rooster/Lunch Box is open daily for lunch and dinner at 6333 Camp Bowie Blvd. (park in the back along Sunset Drive and walk into the courtyard).
Other Rooster locations are at 2430 Forest Park Blvd. near TCU, or downtown at 910 Houston St.; roosterbakery.com.
The picks of the pies
More pie updates:
▪ Sweet Lucy’s Pies, a mobile vendor but an excellent baker, will be selling from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Clearfork Farmers Market, 4116 Edwards Ranch Road, and then after 1 p.m. at the Lettuce Cook take-out shop, 5101 White Settlement Road.
Sweet Lucy’s top holiday pies include eggnog chess, TX Whiskey pecan, salted-caramel chocolate, mocha-espresso cream and tart cherry-cranberry; facebook.com/SweetLucysPies.
▪ Swiss Pastry Shop, one of the local favorites, sold 530 Black Forest cakes at Thanksgiving and expects to sell almost the same, along with pecan, apple, cherry and chocolate cream pies.
Swiss Pastry, 3936 W. Vickery Blvd., also sells rum balls, apple strudel, stollen, cookies and cakes; swisspastryonline.com.
▪ Judy Pie in Grapevine is selling a “Pippi” peppermint pie for Christmas, a chocolate-peppermint, millionaire pie, pecan-chocolate silk, apple crumble and chocolate-bourbon.
Judy Pie’s top Thanksgiving seller was a pumpkin pie with a molasses shortbread crust. Holiday orders end Dec. 20; 520 S. Main St., Grapevine, 817-400-7437, judypie.com.
This story was originally published December 12, 2018 at 12:25 AM.
