Strawberries: Not just for daiquiris!

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It may be blustery & cold today in San Francisco but we're feeling sunny because look at the cute pink buttercream! Strawberries are back at the Ferry Building Farmers' Markets, as mentioned last week, and we can't get enough of them. Yellow cupcakes with strawberry buttercream? So stylin' & girly I wish they came in a dress.

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Even the Tomboy's sporting strawberry buttercream, though you know she is pouting about having to wear pink. You'll have to just deal, Tomboy, it's strawberry season!

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Strawberry macarons are like travel-size on-the-go strawberry shortcakes. Finally!

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And these babies manage to be strawberry-y & spare, in their black & white & pink splendor. Now that would make a cute shoe...

Cupcakes:$3.25/each

Tomboy Cakes: $30/six-inch, $50/eight-inch

Macarons: $1.75/each

All available at Ferry Building & Octavia!

Rosy drops of honeysweet prettiness

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Hard candies seem like such a no-brainer, right? They're the good ol' reliable candy you can always count on, just as delicious after spending months at the bottom of your bag, just waiting for that moment when you're fingers will happen upon them... Oh hey- candy!

Nothing's better than surprise candy.

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Still, with all the virtues of all the classic hard candies, we're always on the look-out for something a little more...fabulous. You know: French.

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One day one of our favorite vendors sent us a little brochure along with our usual chocolate shipment, just a single sheet with photos of flowers & herbs & tiny drops...and the rest is candy history. We love them! They're sweetened with honey, & taste just as pretty as they look.

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We especially love their dainty size- you can enjoy them without feeling like a cow chewing its jawbreaker-cud. Feel free to use that in your next brochure, candy-makers! I'm sure it sounds better in French.

French Drops
Top to bottom: Rose, Lemon Verbena, Raspberry, Garden Mint
New flavors to come soon!
Gift Bag: $5
Bulk (at Octavia only): $20/lb

P.S. The rose drops were honored to be featured in a breathtakingly beautiful issue of Martha Stewart Weddings!

No, We're Not On Some Crazy Strawberries-Only Diet!

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I sooo wish my refrigerator was like this: full of vintage charm & strawberries! Now that spring is here, the Ferry Building shopgirls jaunt out to the Farmers' Markets a few times a week to pick up flats of strawberries for us. The bakers incorporate them into buttercreams, mousses, & more, while the shopgirls place them delicately atop spring-pink desserts...

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...like this one! Super-moist chiffon cake is layered with soft-yet-bouncy strawberry mousse, topped with strawberries, and wrapped gently in an elegant little just-for-you wrapper.

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It doesn't get more single-serving-perfect than this petite buttermilk panna cotta, with its crown of fresh strawberries. Like something a fairy queen would served!

Strawberry Mousse Cake

Ferry Building Only (Octavia by special order)\

$5/slice

Contains gelatin, needs refrigeration

Panna Cotta

Ferry Building Only (Octavia by special order)

$4- bring back your jar for a $1 refund

Contains gelatin, needs refrigeration

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry Blossom!

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That's right! Inspired by Japantown's annual Cherry Blossom Festival, the gorgeous spread in Martha Stewart Weddings, and of course the carried-away pink-&-white blooming cherry tree in front of our confiserie, we're having a tiny cherry blossom festival of our own!

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Oh, sweet little Milkies! These glossy buttons are Denmarks version of m&ms, and all the more elegant for the missing m's. $3/bag

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Now, you have to give me a little creative license on this one: a bag of cherry jelly beans, while delicious, would not really evoke the whole glorious wonder of the cherry trees themselves. You know? We're counting on Pear, Toasted Marshmallow, & Strawberry Shortcake to evoke the lovely palette of leaves, branches, & blooms. $3/bag

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Lollipops so satiny you'll want to wear them as accessories. Satiny, sticky accessories... $3.50/each

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And eventually, if the all goes well, all these blossoms will lead to cherries! Fruit trees are such over-achievers. Either the flowers or the fruit would be more than enough, but they have to go all the way! Marzipan cherries, $5

Let's have another look at our very own cherry tree, proud producer of 3 cherries last year:

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Thanks sweet tree, you're an honorary Miettegirl.

Nope, the tree's not for sale

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The outrageous cherry tree in front of the Confiserie, with its fluffy, flouncy pink & white blooms, has inspired us to have a little Cherry Blossom Festival of our own. More to come soon...

Last-Minute Bunny Transfusion!

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Thanks to a late-night (afternoon) raid by your two stalwart candy girls, we have a bunch of chocolate bunnies for your baskets! Just look at them- those bunnies are ready to go!

Solid (Gold) Milk Chocolate Bunnies
$7.50
Ferry Building & Octavia

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We couldn't resist adopting a hundred of these little doe-eyed sweeties!

Semi-Solid Milk Chocolate Bunnies
$5
Ferry Building & Octavia

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And we saved the gorgeous-est for last...we now wait with baited breath each holiday to see what Diane of Maison Bouche has come up with. The answer is always "awesomeness". (You can also catch a glimpse of her Easter caramel boxes in the second bunny photo.)

Maison Bouche Dark & Milk Bars
$6
Ferry Building & Octavia