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Life’s Too Short to Drink Cheap Coffee

ALACHUA, GAINESVILLE: The opposite of cheap coffee isn’t expensive coffee. The opposite of cheap coffee is GOOD coffee.

With a small, local town such as Alachua, Florida or Gainesville, Florida, one really can choose many places to enjoy a cup of GOOD coffee. The Gainesville Cakery website wants to share our favorite places with you.  Continue reading »

Alachua Cake Truffles

If you’re new to the Alachua area, you may not have been able to snack on one of the most delicious and scrumptious creations to ever hit your mouth — Cake Truffles.

What are Cake Truffles?

Cake Truffles (aka Cake Balls or Cake Bites) are very similar to traditional chocolate truffles. Instead of a fruit or filling center, cake truffles contain moist cake and buttercream filling.  They are normally rolled by hand, dipped in chocolate, and then decorated.  Continue reading »

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~ Mark Twain

I don’t like to use ‘gourmet‘ because it has become so overused and abused. — Arthur Schwarz

Let’s talk Gourmet

Everywhere you go now-a-days, you see gourmet. From cake truffles to desserts, coffee to pastries, people like to throw the word gourmet on a product, raise the price, and promote it like crazy. In Gainesville, dealing with a sophisticated pallet, there’s more to the word gourmet than meets the eye.

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I went to the store to buy a candle holder. They didn’t have one, so I got a cake. — Mitch Hedberg

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!