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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.14 83 louisvillebridalshowcase.com Louisville's Most Prestigious Bridal Shows © LouisvilleBridalShowcase.com December 28th, 2014 Jefersontown Community Center 10617 Taylorsville Rd 12-4 p.m. January 25th, 2015 & July 26th, 2015 Ramada Plaza Convention Center 9700 Bluegrass Pkwy 11:30-3:30 p.m. March 1st, 2015 Paroquet Springs Convention Center 395 Paroquet Springs Dr, Shepherdsville, KY 12-4 p.m. Louisville Bridal Showcase ™ Register online today at BridalShowTickets.info or call (502) 290-4039 for exhibitor information. Present this ad to receive one free admission with each paid admission! Dog. Stock your table with their cranberry walnut or Italian rosemary bread, made with a wood-fred brick oven and no preservatives. (Or, heck, just get a baguette like you always do.) The yeast masters at Blue Dog bake more than 1,000 loaves of artisan bread daily and supply many local restaurants, including their own. Nothing will spruce up your seemingly never-ending supply of leftover turkey and ham like putting it on Blue Dog bread. The Louisville Tea Co.: Cranberry Mist Tea 9305 New La Grange Road, 365-2516, louisvilleteacompany.com If your only experience with cranberry is a still- can-shaped blob of vaguely bittersweet purple gel, you're not alone. Upgrade your cranberry serving this season by drinking it, and not necessarily in a Cosmopolitan. The Louisville Tea Co. offers a variety of seasonal teas (like "pumpkin patch" chai!) but their most season-appropriate is the tart "cranberry mist" green tea, blended with apple, cranberry bits, hibiscus and rose hips. The Sweets Comfy Cow: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Ice Cream Multiple Area Locations, thecomfycow.com What better to complement your spread of post-feast desserts than pumpkin ice cream? If pumpkin's just not your thing, Comfy Cow has other fall favors: "Caramel apple swirl" could probably count as your fruit serving, and the "policeman's special" (coffee ice cream and crumbled-up Nord's doughnuts) will wake from your tryptophan coma. Kizito Cookies: Pumpkin Raisin Cookies 1398 Bardstown Road, 456-2891, kizito.com The tradition of giving of gifts at Christmastime is partly to commemorate the wise men that brought gold, frankincense and myrrh as baby shower gifts to the Nativity. Elizabeth Kizito came from Uganda to America in 1975, and so far what she's brought to Louisville's native population is authentic African art and lots of delicious baked goods. You can even buy the frozen Kizito cookie dough to bake at home. Cellar Door Chocolates: Holiday Candies 1201 Story Ave., 561-2940, cellardoorchocolates. com This Butchertown candy company provided a rainbow of chocolates for the Emmy Awards this year, and by golly, if it's good enough for the Emmys, it's good enough for Grandma's house. Nothing will get that pesky relative to be quiet immediately like handing them one of Cellar Door's white-chocolate poinsettia lollies or dark- chocolate-dipped pretzel rods. Also appropriate: Cellar Door's extra-indulgent bourbon ball fudge, made with "an embarrassing amount of bourbon," which is, coincidentally, what you might need to get through the holidays. Sweet Surrender Dessert Cafe: Cranberry Walnut Pie 1804 Frankfort Ave., 899-2008, sweetsurrenderdessertcafe.com Sweet Surrender specializes in vegan and vegetarian sweets, and we suggest the vegan cranberry walnut pie. Sweet Surrender also has an "apple harvest" cake (with cinnamon-apple pound cake and French butter cream), sugar-free apple pie and pecan-chocolate pie. Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen: Dutch Apple Caramel Pie Multiple area locations, piekitchen.com Little known fact: Black Friday in Louisville is overshadowed by the lesser-known Black Wednesday, when everyone is trying their hardest to get their last-minute baked goods from the Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen before Thanksgiving. The day before Christmas is the same: Standing in line and watching all the baked goods in the case vanish in the arms of luckier customers is a special kind of hell reserved only for the naughtiest of children. Take our advice and order early, because everyone wants to bring a Dutch caramel apple pie home.