Dominique's Sweets

Products

  • French Macaroons

    Idées Macarons; macaron of the month club!  Seasonal flavors, in pretty colors, delivered to your door.    We're also dabbling in the macaron factory with saffron macarons for fun.  Stay tuned.

    Our standard flavors are:

    lemon-bittersweet chocolate-salted caramel - rose

    Find these flavors at the farmer's markets or order specialty flavors online. 

    Vanilla is always a favorite, but not available at the market during warm weather. Come by when it's cold outside to taste a vanilla sensation.

  • Pies

    Each pie is handcrafted using locally produced butter for the crusts from the cows you see grazing in the field on your way home from the beach.  The crust is hand mixed, rolled out, crimped and baked in a glass pie plate for a perfect flaky crust.

  • Cakes and Speciality Breads

    Also available are cakes for any occasion and holiday breads and cookies. 

    We use only housemade candied fruits and California nuts for all of our holiday breads and all of our puff pastry is rolled out by hand.  No machines ever touch your treats : ) they are all lovingly made by hand.


Annual Sweetbread making for Easter season.  We use our great grandmother's recipe, it's a secret!

 

Dominique's Sweets invites you to taste a pastry tradition, French Macaroons (macarons). 

     Macaroons are little round cakes, crunchy on the outside and tender on the inside. They are always made of almonds, sugar and egg-whites. Macaroons have been around since the 8th century and were  made in the kitchens of Venetian monastaries.

     Eight hundred years later, they came to France with the court of Catherine de Medici on the occasion of her marriage to the Duke d’Orleans, the future king of France.

    They became French regional specialities, as each region made their own particular type of macaroon.

    During that time, macaroons were mostly made by nuns in monastaries, because of the strict rules around eating meat.

     Macaroons are also a Passover treat because they use no leavening.

    Dominique’s Sweets macaroons use a Parisian recipe and all natural, local and organic ingredients. 

   They contain no gluten and some contain no dairy products (except butter for some fillings and cream for the chocolate ganaches).

 

photo by Laura Martinphoto by Laura Martin

The pineapple pies are a surprise treat.  A friend in Arizona asked me if I made them, and I thought she was joking.  I found a recipe in an old pie cookbook and I ended up really liking them.  The pineapple cooks in the crust and it is sweetly syrupy tart with a hint of lemon.  The pies are made with organic pineapple and baked in the butter crust we all love. 

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!