It is important to keep menus regularly updated, so customers don’t get bored of the same items. The great thing is there nearly always seems to be a special occasion to base dessert choice around, from Christmas to Valentine’s.
With Easter just around the corner, you might want to freshen up your menu with some puddings that are popular at this time of the year.
Easter egg brownies
Who doesn’t love Easter eggs and who doesn’t love brownies? Well, the combination of the two is sure to lure everyone through cafe doors.
Serve a gooey chocolate brownie scattered with crumbled mini Easter eggs for an afternoon traybake nobody will be able to resist.
Vegan simnel cake
Simnel cake is perhaps the most famous of Easter puddings, but why not put a 21st century spin on the traditional dessert and make it vegan?
It still has all the delicious flavours associated with simnel cake, including marzipan, mixed dried fruit, glace cherries, orange zest, ground almonds, ginger, cinnamon and mixed spice, but without any animal products.
This is sure to appeal to customers who are conscious of boosting their plant-based diets.
Colomba cake
Simnel cake might be Britain’s traditional Easter treat, but the colomba cake is Italy’s.
The lightly fruited cake is in the shape of a dove, which is the symbol of peace, with ‘colomba’ meaning ‘dove’ in Italian.
Those familiar with the Christmas Italian cake panettone are bound to enjoy colomba, as it is very similar. However, the panettone’s candied fruit and raisins are gone and the colomba instead has a crunchy topping of sugar, almonds and dried fruit.
“Colomba is delicious on its own, but it can also be served with berries, spreads, cream or chocolate. Perfect as an Easter dessert, it can also be enjoyed for breakfast or as a snack with some tea,” Olive magazine suggests.
Chocolate hot cross buns
One of the best things about Easter is the abundance of hot cross buns in the supermarkets. However, nothing compares with fresh homemade ones, so spoil customers with these chocolate hot cross buns this season.
This will appeal to most people who walk through the coffee shop door, from hungry commuters wanting to grab something for breakfast to those who can’t resist a little afternoon treat or an after-lunch pudding.
They can be enjoyed cold or toasted with some melted butter on top. The delicious flavours, including chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange zest, and vanilla, are scrumptious all on their own.
Cheesecake-filled Easter eggs
If you really want to wow patrons this season, include cheesecake-filled Easter eggs on your menu.
This craze of filling a hollow Easter egg with a decadent cheesecake, has been doing the rounds on social media over the last couple of years, and doesn’t look to be going anywhere.
You can adapt your recipe depending on the cheesecake flavours and toppings you want, but whatever you create, you can be sure it will be incredibly popular among customers.
Make your desserts even more appealing by offering a takeaway service, so buyers can grab one of the tempting puddings in Kraft food boxes and enjoy them while on the go.
