King Cakes and Mardi Gras

The holiday fog is starting to lift here at the bakery, and today we will be taking down the last remaining decorations. The timing is just about right, because we baked our first batch of King Cakes today!

Each year at Toni we love to keep the holiday season going by celebrating Mardi Gras.

We do this with traditional New Orleans-style King Cakes. Our King Cake is a light, buttery coffee cake that is accented with cinnamon-sugar, and decorated with purple, gold, and green sugar. We make it even more festive by including the .History of the King Cake beads and a plastic baby trinket, inside the cake itself.

Legend has it, whoever finds the baby trinket in their piece is crowned King for the day, AND gets to throw the next Mardi Gras party and provide the King Cake!

Join in on the New Orleans tradition and brighten up the dreary winter months by bringing one to parties in the office, school, or with family and friends thru February 16th.

Mini Pastries for Holiday Parties

Mini pastries are a great way to spice up your holiday parties. By giving your guests many options, everyone can find something they like!

Mini pastries also allow you to incorporate mulitple flavors, colors, and textures to your desserts.

Toni offers festive, fun flavors like mini Egg Nog Cheesecakes, mini Blood Orange Charlottes, and Kircsh or Pistachio Macaroons. Toni also has traditional favorites such as mini fruit tarts, peppermint brownies, eclairs, mousse cups and cream horns.

With mini dessert pastries from Toni, you can offer an amazing variety of upscale desserts that will impress and delight all your guests!

Holiday Hor d’ Oeuvres - Entertaining with Toni

December is here and it’s time to think about entertaining for the Holidays!

This is always an exciting time at Toni, because we love to put together great flavor combinations for appetizers.

Our Fig & Proscuitto wrapped in Filo provides that warm, comfort food feeling, along with the decadent Artichoke and Goat Cheese Vol a Vent.

We also have our current favorites, Mini Quiche in assorted flavors, and Chicken Salad Profiteroles. Don’t forget our festive Sundried Tomato & Goat Cheese Tarts in bright red filo cups!

Some can be served hot, some cold, but all are mouth-watering and ready to be devoured by guests!

Holiday Gift Ideas at Toni 2009

The holidays always sneak up so quickly, and purchasing gifts becomes a priority. We at Toni feel like you can get gifts for everyone on your list right here!

From friends and family, to teachers, clients, coworkers, and neighbors, we have wondefully festive and delectable ideas for you to choose from!

Cup Full of Comfort and Joy’. A ceramic mug filled with tea and hot chocolate packets, biscotti and cookies.


"Star Delight’. White butter cake with dark chocolate ganache and raspberry preserve filling, covered with fondant and elegantly decorated with silver and gold stars. Jane’s Blue Iris of Hinsdale provides a decorative fresh floral display. This gift is a beautiful centerpiece that has both phenomenal smells and tastes!

We always offer a wide variety of gifts for all different tastes and budgets. See below for more ideas and Happy Holidays!

Jolly Old Christmas Chest with a jar of assorted cookies, Cocoa Cones and long-lasting plants and a poinsettia.


Toni Holiday Stollen


Afternoon Tea Basket


Chocolate Confection Brownie Connection

Thanksgiving Breads

Thanksgiving always seems to be a big “bread Holiday”, and we have some of the most delicious varieties available at Toni!

We freshly bake our bread from scratch, and our Pumpkin Pecan Cranberry Bread and Rolls are very popular for Thanksgiving. This bread is not only tasty with Thanksgiving dinner, but also wonderful when used as a sandwich with leftover turkey!

We offer this sandwich at our store with a cranberry shallot relish (from Earth & Vine Provisions, available for sale at Toni!) and cream cheese. It is an excellent flavor combination and we will have it available through Christmas!



Our unique Green Onion Cheddar bread and rolls, spice up your bread basket at Thanksgiving dinner, and also taste great with other meals like chili or stew.

Thanksgiving 2009

It’s hard to believe it is November already, and Thanksgiving is only few weeks away!

We’re really excited about the new items on our menu this year, including the Apple Fig Tart in Walnut Crust. These fall flavors go together so well, and it’s a new spin on a more traditional dessert.

Another new item is our Pumpkin Pecan Cranberry Bread Pudding. We’ve been trying to sample it in the store every weekend, because the look of it doesn’t even begin to describe the taste!

We sample it at room temperature with a dollop of our house-made bourbon sauce, but this dessert is simply decadent when you heat it up, slice and plate it, then drizzle the bourbon sauce on top.

Every year our Pumpkin Mascarpone Roulade is one of our biggest sellers. This light, moist pumpkin cake rolls up around rich mascarpone cream and then drizzled with a deliciously sinful cinnamon glaze on top. Shimmery fondant fall-colored leaves dress up this dessert, and it is not only wonderful to serve at your own party, but to bring it to other parties as well!

And don’t forget the classic Pumpkin, Apple, or Cherry Streusel Pies that are all to die for!

Claire and Alice's Birthdays

It is fun to personalize cakes for clients, especially when they have an inspiration that we can draw from. Invitations and fabric samples are useful tools when we are understanding the theme of an event. This cake was made for Claire and Alice's 5th birthday party. Their father, an architect, drew this picture in the theme of the party and we re-created it on the cake. He was kind enough to send pictures following the celebration so that we could see how much the girls enjoyed the cake. The party looks like it was a blast!