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How Sweet it is with Break the Fast Favorites

Just desserts for the holidays to sweeten the New Year and break the fast.

  • Mocha Chocolate Chip Brea at Breadwinner makes a great gift and dessert.
    Mocha Chocolate Chip Brea at Breadwinner makes a great gift and dessert.
  • Annette Marcus Catering presents mouth-watering sweets for Break the Fast
    Annette Marcus Catering presents mouth-watering sweets for Break the Fast
  • Goldbergs Chocolate or Cinnamon Babka is perfect for Break the Fast.
    Goldbergs Chocolate or Cinnamon Babka is perfect for Break the Fast.
  • The popular Midnight Cake from Alon’s Bakery & Market is irresistible // Photo Courtesy of Alon Balshan
    The popular Midnight Cake from Alon’s Bakery & Market is irresistible // Photo Courtesy of Alon Balshan
  • Breadwinner Café & Bakery’s brownies are a Break the Fast chocolate winner
    Breadwinner Café & Bakery’s brownies are a Break the Fast chocolate winner
  • Nadia Deljou of Delle Dining presents a divine delicacy for Break the Fast.
    Nadia Deljou of Delle Dining presents a divine delicacy for Break the Fast.
  • A divine dessert platter by Annette Marcus Catering
    A divine dessert platter by Annette Marcus Catering
  • Goldbergs’ rugelach is always a popular choice.
    Goldbergs’ rugelach is always a popular choice.

As we break the fast, sweetening the New Year is deliciously done with a line-up of break the fast desserts. Fast forward to some irresistible options from some of Atlanta’s go-to-experts. While baking is a favorite pastime for many family members and deservingly appreciated, when there’s little time to bake or you are an expert at picking-it up, here are some of our community’s go-to gurus for delicious delicacies and out of this world desserts. You’ll have a field day with these mouth-watering options filled with sweetness at your break the fast.

Annette Marcus Catering presents mouth-watering sweets for Break the Fast

Annette Marcus Catering

Ask anyone who has enjoyed Annette Marcus’s catering for decades and you’ll discover her home-baked-style sweets are bite-sized super stars. Annette’s delicious, lovingly baked treats are classified as divine desserts. Handmade and homemade with love, Annette’s comfort-catering and beautifully baked sweets are worthy.

Annette grew up with a family catering legacy, baking with her grandmother and continuing to learn from the family’s talented mother, Charlene Sacks, a well-known caterer for over 50 years in Indianapolis who relocated in Atlanta to be closer to family. Annette’s desserts seem to appear like magic as she says, “order up!” Her effervescent boundless energy is certainly reflected in her baking talents as well as in her full-service special events and catering company.

Annette’s sweet trays are stunning – and her rugelach is a memory maker. The lemon squares are delicately cut into mouth-watering bite size delectables. Gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, toffee topped brownies and pecan coated sweets topped with assorted jellies top it off. Don’t miss her traditional wedding cookies coated with powdered sugar and oh, those layered brownies. Annette’s detail to each cookie, sweet and edible eye-candy, is testimonial enough. www.annettemarcuscatering.com

Goldbergs Chocolate or Cinnamon Babka is perfect for Break the Fast.

Goldbergs Fine Foods

Goldbergs, Atlanta’s beloved delicatessen and restaurant with full-catering services, specializes in deli to dairy with a special menu for the holidays and break the fast with convenient locations from Dunwoody to Buckhead, The Battery to East Cobb, and Toco Hills to West Paces. Since 1992, Goldbergs has created timeless delicacies with a highly attentive leadership, staff and is a sure-fire solid resource with traditional favorites for every occasion year-round. Goldbergs’ culinary team is devoted to sweetening the holidays and makes it effortless with their ready in a flash catering service.

Goldbergs fans appreciate co-owner Howard Aaron who manages the catering and a host of responsibilities for the entire operation. Customers are well taken care of with great attention and concern for the entire family with nourishing choices. Along with business partner, Wayne Saxe, Goldbergs defines hospitality. Pop in for last minute items and for larger orders, be certain to order online or at the stores.

Popular desserts range from a chocolate or cinnamon babka, a popular break the fast delicacy. You’ll also discover their rugelach, as well as assorted cookies including their black and whites, brownies, muffins, cheese Danishes, pound cakes and more. Well known for their pastry trays, Goldbergs is prepared to help you break the fast with spreads, salads, bagels of all descriptions and flavors plus more.

A great place to also get a plain or raisin round challah, Goldbergs is a year-round, delivery available and last-minute destination resource calling ahead for family style platters. For those traveling and welcome a taste from home, you’ll find two Goldbergs (Concourse A and Concourse T) at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. www.goldbergsfinefoods.com

The popular Midnight Cake from Alon’s Bakery & Market is irresistible // Photo Courtesy of Alon Balshan

Alon’s Bakery and Market

Alon’s Bakery, an award-winning bakery and market, presents artisan baked goods, and an array of beautiful desserts. Each dessert is tested and prepared by Alon Balshan’s skilled team of pastry experts. In May 1992, Alon opened his bakery and has been a popular resource in Atlanta ever since. Celebrating 27 years in bustling Virginia Highlands in Morningside, Alon’s Bakery recently opened in Phipps Plaza.

You’ll discover a relaxed casual café meets gourmet foods at both of Alon’s locations, desserts are prepared at his commissary, created by his long-time dedicated pastry teamed with a European influence. Growing up in Israel, Alon developed a passion for baking at a young age. With a culinary degree and love of baking, cases of delicious desserts are ready to go or pre-ordered. Alon’s popular Midnight Cake has a combination of moist cake with white chocolate mousse, and for a non-dairy choice, the Apple Sponge Cake presents Granny Smith apples baked in an almond sponge cake and this 10-inch cake serves six to eight people.

Another crowd-pleaser is Alon’s French Almond Macarons which are traditional French almond macarons that are light and moist, and made with real fruit, nuts and delicious dairy creams, fruit confections or ganache. He has a new addition — the pomegranate orange blossom macaron and comes in an assorted box of 12. Also check out the coconut macaroons (great for freezing ahead of time), which are generous-sized coconut kisses, with a perfectly browned and crisp exterior and a dozen macaroons to a bag. If you love the mix of chocolate and coffee, his holiday addition is a Yirgacheffe (a coffee-influenced chocolate choice). www.alons.com

Breadwinner Café & Bakery’s brownies are a Break the Fast chocolate winner

Breadwinner Café & Bakery

Founded in 2005 by Geoff and Katie Melkonian, along with sister, Wendy, today Breadwinner has grown with popular locations in both Sandy Springs and Dunwoody. The Melkonian’s family-kitchen style atmosphere is a popular dine in, take out and catering resource with a dedicated lunch crowd which is ever present. You’ll be greeted with a line-up of homemade breads (outstanding), soups, salads and sandwiches, staples with a mix of handed-down recipes, and shelves of beautifully presented catering and dependable delicacies. Dishes are marked so food-sensitive eaters can determine their matches.

Breadwinner’s dessert-brunch-break the fast homemade breads are moist, cake-like and divine. These iconic breads featured on national media and across the country, put them on the map and their baked goods include delicious (generously sized) chocolate lovers brownies, great big cookies and sweet themed moist breads are fan favorites. Breadwinner’s loaves of sweetness, ranging from Shafar So Good, Apple Honey Bread and Papa Don’t Peach, Mocha Chocolate Chip and more, are both the perfect gift to platter up or bring as a hospitality gift; their loaves of lusciousness are time-tested and delicious. Ideal if you are heading to a break the fast ready to grab and go tied up in a bow.

If you’re a freezer fan, one of Atlanta’s lunch and catering options presents some guaranteed freezer pleasers to keep on hand. During the holidays, thaw a day before and these dessert-like goodies are ready to be devoured. www.breadwinnercafe.com

Nadia Deljou of Delle Dining presents a divine delicacy for Break the Fast.

Nadia Deljou’ s Delle Dining ATL

Chef Nadia Deljou of Delle Dining ATL curates’ multi-course private dining experiences exploring the rich landscape of Middle Eastern culture and cuisine. She loves to bake sweets that incorporates Persian flavors and enjoys baking yogurt-based cakes, blondies, and flourless chocolate cakes flavored with cinnamon and cardamom for a warming note. Nadia’s cooking revolves around the use of fresh herbs, warm spices and bright citrus. She offers other various services including meal prep, and pastry orders for sweets like Earl Grey tea cakes, cardamom cookies, or chai brown butter blondies.

A favorite dessert is her Cardamom Roulette which is a very light and airy sponge cake that’s rolled around a rose water cream and topped with roasted pistachios and strawberries. Nadia shared that this is a great breaking fast dessert due to its light and pleasant floral notes and pairs super well with coffee or Earl Grey tea and is a nice palate cleanser. As a master of flavor, she uses a lot of ground Persian Earl Grey in her batters, and bakes with lots of freshly ground cardamom, orange blossom and rose water. www.delledining.com

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