Priory Fine Pastries

Look for Priory Fine Pastries on the front page of Pittsburgh’s Magazine Eat Street!  The blurb talks about about our new store front renovations and our Colossal Cupcake.  Click here to read the entire issue or scroll down to read our section!

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Priory Fine Pastries Celebrates Five Years

With New Storefront and Three-Pound Cupcakes
Located in the North Side’s former D.L. Clark Candy Co. building where Clark Bars were once manufactured, Priory Fine Pastries (528 E. Ohio St., North Side) celebrates five years in business with some sweet new offerings.

The bakery’s Colossal Cupcake ($25.99; pictured left), which weighs in at more than three pounds and is equivalent to 18 traditional cupcakes, joins 19 new cupcake flavors including the North Sider, a yellow cupcake with peanut butter filling topped with Clark Bar pieces.
Dedicated to maintaining the historic integrity of the building, the bakery will soon update its storefront with a new sign. The glass-front addition will be, “the type that was sold to merchants in the late-19th century. It will be hand-carved-the old-fashioned way,” explains John Graf, part owner of Priory Hospitality Group. Place orders for Christmas goodies by Tues., Dec. 22: 412/321-7270, prioryfinepastries.com/order-online .

Looking for something a little different this Thanksgiving?  Try one our Pumpkin Custom Cupcake Creations!  It’s a whole lot of pumpkin all in one cupcake-size punch! You know you want to try one…or a dozen!  Hurry in and take some home for this year’s Thanksgiving celebration!  Happy Holidays everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out for Priory Fine Pastries’ Fifth Anniversary Celebration last night.  It was great seeing all of you and we plan on doing it again in another five years!

Click here to view a few pictures from the event, or follow us on Facebook to see all of the pictures.  We also have a video of co-owner Ed Graf speaking about Priory Fine Pastries during the event – see the video below! Also, check out the coverage we received in the Post-Gazette about our anniversary.

Thanks to You Pittsburgh, We’re Celebrating Our Happy 5^th Birthday…Sweet! In the mid-1880s, on the current site of Priory Fine Pastries, a teenage Irish immigrant, David Lytle Clark launched the D.L. Clark Candy Company with $1,000 in capital.
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By 1890, his manufacturing had outgrown this North Side location and he relocated to McKeesport where his family had a dairy.
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During its peak, the Clark Candy Company manufactured daily nearly 2 million Clark Bars,  6 million sticks of gum and more than 150 products including its infamous five cent candy bar.
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Its signature Clark bar was developed in 1917 to meet the demand of U.S. soldiers for candy in World War I. At his death in 1939, David L. Clark left $1.2 million dollars to eleven area hospitals, including our neighbor Allegheny General.
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Not since Mr. Clark left this East Ohio location in 1890 had this property been used for manufacturing.  In 2004, our family brought that back with our own sweet touch – the opening of Priory Fine Pastries. Over the past five years, we’re proud to say we’ve worked hard to keep the innovative, fun, tasty and charitable ways going on in the spirit of D.L. Clark and our own ancestors. Thank you for your support and friendship over the past five years.
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Here’s to many more great years of creating sweet memories with you,
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Mary Ann, Ed, Suzanne and John

The Graf Family
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P.S.: Click here to read more about Priory Fine Pastries’ connection to the world famous confectioner D.L. Clark.

Need something sweet for your next Steelers party?  Visit Priory Fine Pastries and pick up one of our many Steelers desserts!  We have everything from cakes, to football cookies, to cupcakes and more!  Just one example is this tasty Black & Gold cake, something that will hit every Steelers fan’s sweet tooth.  Give us a call to preorder yours or stop in and see us!  Let’s go Steelers!

Make sure to get your orders in by Saturday, November 21 for your Thanksgiving desserts!  We have pies, cakes, cookies and much more to choose from!  Stop in or give us a call today so we can help you pick out the perfect dessert for your holiday celebration!  Ask about our special turkey cake too!

We are happy to announce that we are celebrating our 5th Anniversary this month!!  We want to personally thank all of you for making us so successful over the years and invite you to join in on the celebration yourselves! We are having an anniversary party at the bakery on Monday, November 23.  We’ll have lots of treats and giveaways so make sure to mark your calendar.  We’ll have more details for you soon – keep checking back often!

Thanksgiving is upon us and now’s the time to get your order in for your desserts from Priory Fine Pastries!  We have our traditionally pumpkin pie – a Thanksgiving classic – and a variety of other pies to please the entire family. Not a pie kind of person?  No problem!  Try one our fabulous cookie trays, cupcake platters and specialty cakes instead!

Get your orders in before Monday, November 23, 2009 to make sure you get your pie or other desserts in time for the holidays.

We hope you are enjoying Priory Fine Pastries new website!  Browse around and let us know what you think!  Your comments and suggestions help us improve so that we can better serve you, our valued customers!  And make sure you sign up for eNewsletter to receive the latest news from our bakery along with specials offers and coupons!

We are going to have a Featured Item every week that we think you should DEFINITELY try! This week’s item is our delicious dutch apple pie, a pie so good, we know you’ll be back for more! It’s loaded with tons of apples and is baked fresh by order. This guy is big enough to share with friends and family, but we won’t tell if you keep it all to yourself!
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Call us today and pre-order your dutch apple pie for your Thanksgiving dinner or just buy one to keep all to yourself (you won’t regret it!)