“Sur ce doux nom, une tache de beurre! Upon his sweet name, a spot of butter!” cries out the pastry chef Ragueneau in the famous French play Cyrano de Bergerac, upon seeing children walking out of his shop with beautiful buttery pastries wrapped in torn out pages of his beloved poetry book. Butter-stained poetry, perfectly understandable to a French audience. Butter is a staple in France, showing up in everything from sauces to sandwiches to the most elegant of pastries.

Paradoxically, can you believe that margarine was invented in France about 150 years ago? By the 1950s, in part due to our eagerness to adopt fashionable food trends, margarine had also become popular here, eventually overtaking butter, sold as a “healthy substitute.” And so manufactured fats, including the worst—trans fats—found their way into cookies and crackers and all sorts of baked goods. Thank goodness we’ve gotten past that. We are enjoying natural fats again, like lip-glistening, totally satisfying real butter. I don’t know about you, but I do love butter! We go through pallets of it, literally, in our bakery operations, where we use it unapologetically in everything from scones to pie shells to our famous Killer Brownie^®.

Adding to our Bakery's repertoire is another butter-centric pleasure ... DLM Classic Coffee Cakes! When you eat a slice (or two) you get that wonderful butter sensation on your palate, and it feels good in your tummy, unlike eating overly sweet treats that make you queasy and regretful. We mix a few ingredients such as local organic eggs, sugar, flour, and of course French-style butter. We then bake the cakes in classic Bundt pans to a perfectly caramelized crust with a moist, dense interior. These coffee cakes were developed and are lovingly baked by our talented pastry chefs, headed up by Amy Brown.

In addition to seasonal features, we have a few traditional flavors for you to enjoy: Double Chocolate and Toasted Walnut Cinnamon (my fave). Plus, look for seasonal varieties throughout the year! Enjoy them for breakfast with a hot cup of DLM 1948 Classic Dark Roast Coffee, a chilled glass of DLM A2 Guernsey Milk, or a latte from our DLM Coffee Bar. Have a slice with an afternoon cup of tea, or even serve for dessert. However you enjoy them, that genuine “spot of butter” flavor from our DLM Classic Coffee Cakes will have you waxing poetic.

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