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318 Restaurant Week: A $10 Crash Course in Whisk Dessert Bar

Featured Photo: This flight of signature desserts from Whisk Dessert Bar will only be available during 318 Restaurant Week, March 13-17, 2018. Whisk Dessert Bar, Chef Blake Jackson’s chef-driven dessert emporium located at 724 Azalea Drive in Shreveport, is doing something really cool for their daily 318 Restaurant Week special. …

A photo of pastries from Scratch House Kitchen

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Scratch House Kitchen Puts the ‘Good’ in ‘Baked Goods’

When I asked Monika Thompson, founder of Scratch House Kitchen, why she decided to launch a business that specializes in healthy baked goods in Shreveport, La., I expected to hear about how there aren’t a lot of local options for healthy indulgences. What I heard, instead, was an incredibly personal …

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Whisk Dessert Bar Now Open in South Highlands

Featured photo: Whisk Dessert Bar is now open in Shreveport. Chef Blake Jackson’s Whisk Dessert Bar is now open at 724 Azalea Drive in Shreveport’s South Highlands neighborhood. Whisk is a chef-driven, dessert-only eatery serving artful pastries, cookies, gelato and other fine desserts. On my first visit to Whisk, I …

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Dessert Gets Weird at N2O Puff in Bossier City

Recently, a boba tea and smoothie shop called N2O Puff (1131 Airline Drive, Bossier City) opened in Rams Airline Plaza, at the corner of Airline Drive and Barksdale Boulevard in Bossier City. My interest was initially driven by the simple fact that a boba café was opening in Shreveport-Bossier; most boba sold in …

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Buttercups Cupcakes’ Unicorn Cake is an Instagram Sensation

Featured photo: Kim Hand, owner of Buttercups Cupcakes, holds the bakery’s signature unicorn cake. Photo by Jennifer Robison. If you have a sweet tooth and live in the Shreveport-Bossier area, chances are good that you’re already familiar with Buttercups Cupcakes. Featured on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars in 2011, Buttercups …

A photo of strawberries from The Chocolate Crocodile

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The Chocolate Crocodile’s Strawberries: A Valentine’s Day Tradition in Shreveport-Bossier

Featured photo: Two chocolate-covered strawberries from The Chocolate Crocodile. Photo by Chris Jay/Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau Chances are good that, if you’re familiar with the Bossier City chocolate shop The Chocolate Crocodile, you’ve heard about their assortment of huge, candy-covered apples. Their top-selling apple, the Monster Croc, is a large …

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Pastry Chef Shelby White Enlivens Baked Offerings at Rhino Coffee, Port Au Prince

If you’ve recently visited Rhino Coffee, the independent coffee house located in Shreveport’s South Highlands neighborhood, you may have noticed that the coffee shop’s baked goods offerings now include an array of oversized, festively colored macarons. Macarons are sweet meringue cookie sandwiches that are commonly filled with such tasty fillings …

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Return of the Cookie Macster: Geauxsicles Reopens on East 70th Street

Photo: A sign marks the new location of Geauxsicles at 1817 E. 70th Street in Shreveport. Long before Shreveport-Bossier discovered local craft beer or farm-to-table dining, we were wooed by Geauxsicles, a family-run shop serving locally made “gourmet ice pops.” Founded in 2010 at their original location on Youree Drive, …

An image of a snow cone from Tim's Southern Sno

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Tim’s Southern Sno: Park Straight and Carry a Big Snowcone

The heat of July in the Great State of Louisiana, if not properly dealt with, has been known to send otherwise sensible people into fits of misbehavior. The best cure for these fits is prevention, and the best form of prevention may just be snow cones. Just like everything else …

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