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New Year's Pretzel

To celebrate the New Year, Priory Fine Pastries is unleashing their delicious New Year’s Pretzels!  Stop in or call the bakery to order yours today!  The Pretzels are just $4 without icing, $4.50 with icing and $5 with icing and nuts.  Visit our Bakery at 528 East Ohio Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side or call us at 412.321.7270.

Did Someone Say Gingerbread?

Want to get the kids into the holiday spirit this year?  Try building a gingerbread house with them – it’s a great and fun activity for both them and YOU!  Building a gingerbread house can be as simple or as difficult as you’d like.  You can go to the store and purchase kits for easy setup or you can get as creative as you want and build it from scratch!  Either way, we know once you build one, you’ll be back for more!  Here’s a great site to get you started on your dream gingerbread house! Good luck and happy baking!

Pumpkin Pie Bites

Not ready to give up the Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie yet? Here’s a super easy and delicious recipe from Bakerella for Pumpklin Pie Bites. Not only will these cure your cravings for Pumpkin Pie, but they are also just fun to look at!  So whether your making them for a party or just for yourself, these little guys are sure to please any pumpkin lover.
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Pumpkin Pie Bites

2 refrigerated ready-to roll pie crusts

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter

Optional
1/2 cup chocolate morsels
vegetable oil
re-sealable plastic bags

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Use cookie cutter to cut 12 pumpkin shapes from each pie crust. You will need to roll the dough thinner than it comes out of the box.
Press dough shapes into a 24 cup mini muffin tray. (Make 12 at a time, alternating cups to make sure pie crusts don’t overlap each other.)
Apply egg whites from one egg to the top edges of each pie.
Mix cream cheese, sugar, canned pumpkin, remaining 2 eggs, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice together until thoroughly combined.
Spoon mixture into each pumpkin-shaped pie crust.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Remove pies to cool and repeat with second pie crust. Place the muffin tray in the freezer to cool it quickly for re-use.

Makes 24 pies. Keep refrigerated.

To decorate, melt chocolate in a heat-proof bowl in the microwave on medium. Heat in 30 second intervals, stirring in between until melted. Add a little vegetable oil to make the chocolate more fluid. Transfer to a re-sealable plastic bag and cut the corner off. Drizzle or draw faces on pies.

Note: The cutter I used was 3 3/4 inches wide, but if you don’t have one, don’t worry. Just use a round cutter around that size or slightly smaller to cut circle shapes out of the dough. Then make stems with the scraps. Press each stem over the edge and down the side of the dough before filling.

Pumpkin pie spice is a mixture of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice.

Enjoy!

New Chocolate Line

We’ve unveiled a whole new line of chocolate products you absolutely must try.  Chocolate covered pretzels, truffles and peanut butter bar are just a few examples of the new line.

Stop by Priory Fine Pastries and satisfy the chocolate lover within!  You won’t be disappointed!

Priory Fine Pastries on Eat Street!

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 .

Pumpkin Cupcakes

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!

5th Anniversary Celebration

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.

We're Celebrating our 5th Birthday

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.