Priory Fine Pastries

The hot cross bun is an English culinary icon for Lent. Made from buttery dough seasoned with allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, or cloves, hot cross buns get their name from the mark that’s scored on them before they’re baked or squiggled on them with fondant icing once they come out of the oven.

For the best Hot Cross Buns in Pittsburgh, come to Priory Fine Pastries!  Our Hot Cross Buns are baked in the shape of cross and our extra delicious!  Call us today to pre-order yours!

Stop by Priory Fine Pastries for all of your Passover breads and desserts!  Take home a loaf of our Challuh Bread (only $3.99/loaf) or our delicious Jewish Apple Cake (only $4.99).  Call us today or stop in to order yours in time for Passover.

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Stop by Priory Fine Pastries for the best selection of St. Patrick’s day desserts in the city of Pittsburgh!  We have a wide variety of cookies to mix and match like our green and white iced thumbprints, our sugar shamrock cookies and our heavily iced jumbo shamrock cutouts.  More of a cake person?  No problem – stop by and pick up our yummy St. Patrick’s Day dinner cake!

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We also have some traditionally Irish treats, such as Irish Soda Bread and Irish Scones!

Get your Paczkis and King Cake for Mardi Gras right here at Priory Fine Pastries!  Call us to order your Mardi Gras desserts or stop in and see us!  Paczkis will be available today – Feb. 16 and tomorrow – Feb. 17 only!

We want you to have the best Valentine’s Day possible this year.  So if you’re in the Pittsburgh area, stop by Priory Fine Pastries to take home one of our many Valentine’s Day desserts – a sure fix to any Valentine’s Day blues out there!  We’ve got everything you could ask for here – cupcakes, cookies and cakes decked out it red, pick and white!  Stop by or call us to order a special Valentine’s Day treat for your sweetheart this year!

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Valentine’s Day Cakes

Valentine’s Day Cupcakes

Valentine’s Day Cookies

Celebrate Mardi Gras this year with the best Fat Tuesday pastries in Pittsburgh at Priory Fine Pastries! Visit us at 528 East Ohio Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side or call us at 412.321.7270 to order your King Cake filled with cream cheese or cherry filling in Time for Fat Tuesday – February 16! Comes with the traditional King Cake baby -  the person who gets the piece with the baby has various obligations (like buying the cake next year.)

And, don’t forget to get your order in for a dozen (or more) of our delicious traditional Paczkis, sold the day before and the day of Fat Tuesday (February 15  &  16). Paczkis are similar to donuts but are made with a richer dough and are extra delicious!  They come covered with powdered sugar or icing and with a fruit filling. A true Mardi Gras favorite!

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.

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!

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!

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!