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Desserts are an essential part of any meal, but especially so during the holidays. To round out those Christmas meals at home, Austin bakeries and restaurants are making it easier to figure out sweets game plans by offering desserts for preordering. There’s everything from cookie tins from Texas French Bread, gluten-free pies from Gati, buches de noel a-plenty, and much more.
Everything below is listed alphabetically and is available for pickups (delivery services are noted). Check out Eater’s separate holiday meal to-go guide, tamales, and dinners/brunches. Likewise, check out these holiday cocktail pop-ups and general holiday food-and-drink experiences.
Abby Jane Bakeshop
16604 Fitzhugh Road, Dripping Springs
The bakery is offering preorders for the holidays. The menu includes cinnamon roll trays ($30), mesquite chocolate hazelnut Swiss rolls ($40), and grits with bacon and cheddar ($45) and collard greens and roasted tomatoes ($40). There are also loads of breads.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 23 and 24
How to Book: Order online
Bakery Lorraine
11600 Rock Rose Avenue, Suite 100, Domain Northside
The San Antonio-based bakery is offering several holiday desserts this season, including pies (apple-cranberry and Dutch apple for $28, whiskey pecan for $26) and then a buche de noel ($48).
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Monday, December 12 through Saturday, December 24.
How to Book: Order online or over the phone.
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Buenos Aires Cafe
1201 East Sixth Street, East Austin
The Argentinian restaurant’s holiday lineup includes panettone ($20), and a sweets box full of small lemon pies and raspberry tarts, cake balls, Mexican wedding cookies, and more for $52.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 21.
Pickup Dates: Saturday, December 24, through 3 p.m.
How to Book: Order online
Buzzed Bakery Co.
5601 Woodrow Avenue, Brentwood
The boozy bakery’s holiday offerings include winter sangria tart bars ($5.50), boozy cranberry blondies ($5.50), gingerbread beer doughnuts ($4), and more, as well as boxes of the miniature versions of most treats.
Deadline: Sunday, December 18
Pickup Dates: None noted; deliveries are available.
How to Book: Order online
Carpenters Hall
400 Josephine Street, Zilker
The hotel restaurant made an $80-holiday buches de noel, with an eggnog spiced cake base.
Deadline: Friday, December 16
Pickup Dates: Wednesday, December 21 through Saturday, December 24, between 7 a.m. to noon each day
How to Book: Order online
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Commodore Perry Estate
4100 Red River Street, Hancock
The hotel’s executive pastry chef Susana Querejazu is teaming up with Houston-based pastry chef Roy Shvartzapel to create a holiday panettone mixed with chocolate, bananas, and Texas pecans.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Place orders in person at the hotel.
Cookie Rich
1801 North Lamar Boulevard, Near West Campus
The deluxe cookie bakery put together $33 holiday cookie packs for the season, with flavors like gingersnap and eggnog, apple pie, and turtle-bourbon buttercream. There are mix-and-match ones too.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted; there is local delivery and national shipping available.
How to Book: Order online
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Cookie Wookie
The cookie shop teamed up with illustrator Kathy Phan and shop Solid Soaps for a fun little holiday box with rainbow cookies, a soap bar, and a cookie magnet for $30.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted, but it takes place at Parer and Scott General Store, 2113 West Anderson Lane, Suite B, Crestview
How to Book: Order online
Dai Due
2406 Manor Road, Cherrywood
For the holidays, the butcher shop is selling lard-based pie dough ($14) for those who want a little help with their own pies, as well as ready-to-be-baked brown butter-pecan cookie dough ($17). For ready-made desserts, there are pecan pies ($20) and pecan sticky buns ($20).
Deadline: Sunday, December 11
Pickup Dates: Thursday and Friday, December 22 and 23, with timed slots.
How to Book: Order online
District Kitchen + Cocktails
5900 West Slaughter Lane, South Austin; 7858 Shoal Creek Boulevard, North Shoal Creek
The New American restaurant put together holiday cookie boxes, with flavors like salted chocolate chip, chai snickerdoodle, and red velvet, available by the half-dozen for $20 or full dozen for $21.
Deadline: None noted, but orders must be placed 48 hours before desired pickups.
Pickup Dates: Throughout December.
How to Book: Order online for each respective restaurant
Dolce Neve
1713 South First Street, Bouldin Creek
The gelato shop’s Italian holiday offering is the torrone, a soft nougat with almonds, hazelnuts, and pistachios, available individually ($7) or packs of three ($20)
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted; shipping is available.
How to Book: Order online
Epicerie
2307 Hancock Drive, Rosedale
The New Orleans-y/Frenchish restaurant has a holiday pastry box available, with sprinkled cookies, doughnuts, pain suisse, and more, for $45.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 21
Pickup Dates: Friday, December 23, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
How to Book: Order online or call 512) 371-6840
Gati
1512 Holly Street, Holly
The ice cream and bakery shop is getting into the holiday spirit game with a gluten-free and/or vegan lineup of cakes (including layer ones), pies, buches de noel, and cheesecake, plus lots of vegan ice cream
Deadline: Monday, December 12
Pickup Dates: Friday, December 23, before 3:30 p.m.
How to Book: Order online
Intero
2612 East Cesar Chavez, Suite 105, Holly
The Italian restaurant is offering a variety of holiday chocolates in the form of truffles and bars
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Wednesday, December 14 through Friday, December 23
How to Book: Order online
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Jester King Brewery
13005 Fitzhugh Road, Hill Country
The brewery is putting together a baked goods menu this holiday season, with cookie boxes with items like ginger-molasses, peppermint shortbread sandwiched cookies, and others ($25); pies like pumpkin or buttermilk chess ($35), and take-and-bake pastries ($25, cinnamon rolls and pecan sticky buns).
Deadline: The last day to order cookie boxes is Saturday, December 10, and the last day for pies and pastries is Wednesday, December 14
Pickup Dates: For the cookies: timed pickups on Wednesday and Thursday, December 14 and 15; for the pies and pastries: Wednesday and Thursday, December 21 and 22
How to Book: Order online
Jules Stoddart
North Austin
Even though the mega-talented pastry chef left Austin, she’s back offering a special holiday cookie tin, full of her favorite cookies like winter spiced orange spritz cookies and peppermint butter mints. The tins are $30, with one dollar from each sale going towards restaurant industry-minded nonprofit organization Studio ATAO
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10, deliveries in Austin proper are available for $5 on those afternoons; shipping orders will be sent on Saturday, December 17
How to Book: Order online
Julie Myrtille
1023 Springdale General, Suite 1D, Govalle
The French bakery’s holiday offerings are tins of candied chestnuts for $62.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Order online
La Patisserie
Two locations
The French bakery’s holiday array includes macarons ($14.95 to $29), buches de noel (large for $90, small for $50), and gingerbread sandwiches ($4.75).
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Order online
Latin Bakery Austin
5610 North I-35, North Loop
The bakery service offerings lots of Latin-ish holiday baked goods, from the alfajor cake (starting at $30), holiday-shaped cookies, and the Peruvian pionono in a yulelog shape ($60), among many others.
Deadline: None noted, orders are ready in two to four days.
Pickup Dates: None noted, but it offers pickups on Friday, December 23 after 3 p.m. or deliveries after 4 p.m.
How to Book: Order online
Launderette
2115 Holly Street, Holly
The New American restaurant is putting together a jam-packed holiday cookies/sweets box with 35 items for $88. There are chocolate crunkles, cookie butter truffles, apple jam cheesecake blondies, and much more.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Timed pickups are available from Thursday, December 8 through Friday, December 23.
How to Book: Order online
Micklethwait Craft Meats
1309 Rosewood Avenue, Central East Austin
The barbecue truck’s holiday cookie box is team effort with fellow Austin-area businesses like Abby Jane Bakeshop and Sour Duck. The box is $25, and the sales will go to the truck’s baker Kelly. There are also $25 pies in eggnog chess and pecan.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Wednesday through Friday, December 21 through 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then on Saturday, December 24 from 10 a.m. to noon.
How to Book: Email catering@craftmeatsaustin.com
Mr. Natural
two locations
The vegan restaurant is offering gingerbread, cookie, and gingerbread people decorating kits for the holidays.
Deadline: None noted, but orders should be placed 72 hours before intended pickups.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Order online
My Happy Place
The bakery delivery service is putting together a whole holiday menu plus egg rolls from Austin chef Chanda Mau. The sweets include holiday-flavored macarons from peppermint to cookie butter ($15), gingerbread men ($18), and more.
Deadline: Saturday, December 10
Pickup Dates: Friday, December 16 from a location is near Salty Sow in Cherrywood, deliveries are available for Saturday, December 17
How to Book: Order online
Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop
1905 South First Street, Bouldin Creek
For the holidays, the bakery is offering a holiday cookie box for $47, filled with chocolate cherry thumbprints, Texican wedding, and toffee chocolate chip, among others.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Order online
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Texas French Bread
2900 Rio Grande Street, Heritage
The campus-adjacent restaurant and bakery’s holiday dessert array includes cookie tins ($65), buches de noel ($38), galettes (apple $27, cranberry-walnut $27), pies (pecan $32 and pumpkin $29), galettes, stollen ($32), coffee cake ($20 to $36), fudge cakes ($35 to $48), and tea breads ($20 to $26).
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: None noted.
How to Book: Order online
Vinaigrette
2201 College Avenue, Travis Heights
The New Mexico import is offering a gingerbread house kit with eggnog for $50.
Deadline: Wednesday, December 21
Pickup Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 23 and 24
How to Book: Order online
Walton’s Fancy & Staple
609 West Sixth Street, Downtown
Among the deli’s holiday offerings are apple crumbles, pecan pies, cheesecakes, and cupcakes.
Deadline: Orders are available starting on December 10 through Tuesday, December 20.
Pickup Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 23 and 24
How to Book: Call (512) 391-9966 or email catering@waltonsfancyandstaple.com
Westlake Wine Bar
3801 North Capital of Texas Highway, Westlake
The French restaurant is selling house-made buches de noel for $30.
Deadline: None noted.
Pickup Dates: Friday and Saturday, December 23 and 24
How to Book: Order online
This guide will be updated leading up to Christmas Eve on Saturday, December 24. If there is an Austin restaurant/bakery/food truck/etc. offering holiday dessert preorders missing above, let Eater know through austin@eater.com.