Gourmet Cakes Delivered to Your Doorstep

Now here is a great idea for a gift - Bake Me a Wish - a gourmet cake sent through the mail to your favorite person. All you have to do is specify the occasion and a delivery date, and your cake will be baked, decorated, and delivered.

This week, I was lucky enough to receive an unbelievably luscious rich chocolate mouse cake with fudgy rosettes in the mail from Bake Me a Wish, a New York based bakery that was founded in 2004. This has to be their most decadent offering, with the cake itself arriving in perfect order in an attractive gift box packed in a dry ice container, and they even put a message on the cake.

If chocolate cake is a bit rich for your tastes, there are plenty of others to choose from. These include the strawberry shortcake topped with whipped cream and Belgium white chocolate shavings or the vanilla bean layer cake with buttercream mousse.

link:  Bake Me A Wish

By Michael Hepworth | October 21, 2006 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Fresh Wild Salmon Shipped Direct

Get wild salmon caught by hand with hook and line by The Alaska Wild Salmon Company, and have it shipped directly to your door.  While farmed salmon contains added colors, antibiotics, or vaccines, these hand caught fish are quickly dressed to preserve its freshness, taste, and Omega-3 nutrients.  Run as a family owned business, every order comes with a satisfaction guarantee.

Visit GoodSalmon.com for your fresh caught wild salmon.

By Robert | September 24, 2005 in Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Holiday Cookbook Gift: King Authur Flour Cookie Companion

This book is just in from the award-winning team that put together the "King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook." "King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion" is a thorough, comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about cookies. The first few chapters are devoted to cookies developed from one or two "essential" recipes. These are ingredient-based cookies such as Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Molasses Cookies. Later pages cover an incredible range of cookie varieties, separated into chapters such as Bars and Squares, Drop Cookies, Roll-Out, Shaped, Batter, and No-Bake. Each recipe is as tempting as the next, but what makes this cookbook so special is that you get tons of tips, techniques, and explanations that lead to a complete understanding of what goes into making a great cookie. The King Arthur team includes hints on measuring molasses without making a mess, intricate illustrations that outline steps for essential techniques, and sidebars with informative tidbits on certain ingredients. Unlike many cookie books, which only give one recipe for each type of cookie, you can make every cookie-lover happy here with chewy and crispy versions of many of your favorite cookies.

Whether you want to build a gingerbread house for the holiday season, or simply have a hankering for a big whoopie pie, the "King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion" is a cookie resource you will return to again and again for years to come.

By Robert | December 16, 2004 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Cookbooks, Holidays, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Holiday Gift: Richart Chocolate Introduces a Chocolate Vault

French chocolate maker, Richart, introduced a burlwood chocolate vault with temperature and humidity gauges for the perfect storage of their chocolates.  "Chocolate is very absorbent.  The same air will be circulating around onions!," says John Scharffenberger of Richart.  Makes sense to us.  Coming with 112 pieces of chocolate at $750, is this decadence at its best?

Visit RICHART Chocolate online.

By Robert | November 20, 2004 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chocolate, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (1)

Seafood Online: Order Fresh Crab, Live Lobster, and Seafood Delivered Direct to Your Doorstep

Ordering live Maine lobster and fresh crab online for delivery has never been easier. Our two favorites are The Crab Place, and Maine Lobster Direct. Straight from the chilly waters of the North Atlantic, live Maine lobster is delivered overnight direct to your doorstep from Maine Lobster Direct. We love ordering from this family owned business, and their great service. Specialty of the house at The Crab Place is the Maryland blue crab. You can order them live or steamed, plus an assortment of other seafood goodies like crab cakes, clams, and oysters.

The Crab Place | Maine Lobster Direct

By Robert | February 23, 2004 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Food, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (3)

Holiday Gift Certificates for Foodies

Gift certificates are a favorite gift choice for many, and online gift certificates add extra value because one gift certificate can be used across a wide selection of online stores. Certificates from GiveAnything.com are good at over 500 online stores. For foodie and gourmet fans, GiveAnything certificates are good online at stores including Chef Revival, Restaurant.com, Wine.com, SimplySeafood.com, Flying Noodle, New York Flavors, and others.

See all the online stores at GiveAnything.com

By Robert | December 10, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Gourmet Christmas Gift Ideas from Red Envelope

One of our favorite online stores, Red Envelope, has a great selection of sweets, wine, and food gift baskets. Check out their special Gourmet section to find that special gift for the foodie in your life.

By Robert | December 9, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Christmas Treat - Tamales

The tradition of making tamales during the Christmas season is like holiday cookie baking for some. If you're not lucky enough to have friends bestow you with their homemade goodies, you can always get your tamales from our neighborhood local favorite, Corn Maiden Tamales. This Los Angeles kitchen specializes in tamales that boast being "Hand Made, Hand Tied, No Lard, No Preservatives, No Kidding". Order them online and get these delicious tamales delivered via FedEx overnight.

Choose from over 20 different tamales and a variety of sauces--our favorites include roasted green chile and smoked gouda, black bean and red jalapeno with mozzarella, and a lobster and coconut and ginger tamale. Corn Maiden also offers an assortment of dessert tamales. Enjoy.

By Robert | November 26, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Roasting Chestnuts for the Holidays

Whether you're listening to Bing croon a few "chestnut" tunes or you're wanting to snuggle up in front of the fireplace, roasting chestnuts over an open fire is the perfect pastime. Delmarvelous Chestnuts from Delaware offers two pounds for $14.50 or $30 for five pounds. See their assortment of chestnut gift baskets too!

By Robert | November 12, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Food, Holidays, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (1)

Holiday Gift Idea: Photo Cookies

Looking for a unique gift idea for a birth announcement, wedding or anniversary favor? Or maybe you're looking for a corporate gift?? Mrs. Beasley's offers the perfect solution--photo image cookies! Your photo is printed with edible ink on sugar paper and glazed onto a shortbread cookie, simply amazing!

By Robert | November 11, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Holidays, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Special Delivery - Online Gifts For Foodies

With the holiday season fast approaching we created a new category called Special Deliveries. We hope this section will not only make the usually hectic season a little less so, but also introduce the wonderful world of online mail order gifts to those of you who have not yet discovered this time saving phenomenon! A little impersonal you say? Not so! Time and thought go into every gift, whether you shop in a brick and mortor shop or you surf the world wide web. Check out Special Deliveries as we feature interesting and unique gourmet food items for this holiday season.

To start, here are some finds:

Nonnie's Traditional Southern offers wonderfully scrumptious pound cake presented in an elegant, reuseable hatbox. A perfect hostess gift or great for a holiday get together dessert. Poundcake...simple and familiar.

Gourmet bacon--why?? Because we can and because nothing else rings in a holiday morning like the scent of frying bacon. Who else can say they belong to a bacon of the month club?? "The only club like it on the planet (as far as we know)" Check out The Grateful Palate for more info.

By Robert | October 25, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)