Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Introducing: Hollyberry’s Monthly “Treat Me in St. Louis” Special!

At Hollyberry, we want to continue to SHOW OFF ST. LOUIS, provide EXCITING MENU OPTIONS, and support our FAVORITE ST. LOUIS EATERIES.

Each month, we are offering a special boxed lunch from one of our staff’s favorite spots in the St. Louis area. As a bonus (and because we appreciate your order), we’ll give you an EXCLUSIVE coupon!

This month, we’ve teamed with Holly’s favorite wine bar, Robust Wine Bar in Webster Groves. We’re offering the Robust Blue BLT as our January special. Created by their fabulous culinary team and voted Best BLT by Sauce Magazine, this delicious sandwich features thick-cut maple-pepper bacon with a creamy blue cheese dressing, crisp romaine lettuce, and ripe beefsteak tomatoes on a yummy pretzel bun.

As always, we’ll pair it with your choice of delicious Hollyberry sides and sweets for only $10.95.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER: Anytime you place an order and choose the Robust Blue BLT in January, you’ll get a coupon for “The Robust 2010”—a 20% discount off all food items in café and 10% discount off all the great gifts and accessories in the wine shop. It’s the perfect reason to see for yourself why I love to relax at Robust!

Don’t wait—come Feb 1, 2010 this special will be over!

VIEW THE EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THIS SPECIAL HERE.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Hollyberry is featured on Show Me St. Louis on KSDK!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Hollyberry Joins BUILD St. Louis!

Hollyberry Baking and Catering has joined a St. Louis organization focused on supporting our economy by BUYING LOCAL!  Hollyberry currently makes our own efforts to buy local in our Catering division by locally sourcing bread, produce from farmers markets, and other items.  Hollyberry has also introduced its SHOW OFF ST. LOUIS gift line this year that features all locally made products.  Find out more about our St. Louis Gifts at http://www.hollyberrybaking.com/shop/show-off-st-louis and click on the green box on the left to find out more about BUILD St. Louis!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Catching you up on Hollyberry news!

So much has happened since my last blog -here are a few media highlights:
++We were voted Favorite Caterer in St. Louis by Sauce Magazine readers! (we served our Buffalo Chicken Dippers at the Celebration Gala at the Four Seasons - it was fabulous!)
++Our Dave’s Double Chip Cookies were Snack of the Day on the Rachael Ray Show this Summer (of all the yummies we sent her she picked our Chocolate Chip cookies which was quite a compliment!)
++Our Corporate Gift Crates featuring our own Gooey Butter Cake and other sweets are featured in the “Gifts We Love” section in Paula Deens Special Collector’s Edition Holiday Baking Magazine!

We are so thankful and thrilled by these mentions, but most of all we are excited about the upcoming holiday season.  We are getting the amazing opportunity to help put people in our community back to work by partnering with the St. Patrick Center in downtown St. Louis to help mentor and train those less fortunate in our community to help us with this year’s gift production.  St. Patrick Center’s mission is to promote “Permanent, Positive Change” and we are getting to be a part of it!

If you are giving corporate gifts this year, we hope you will consider Hollyberry- check our out new Gift Catalog at http://www.hollyberrybaking.com.  The season is almost upon us - we hope to work with you this year!

Holly

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Our Event Menu Launch at City Museum!

Hello from Holly-

I am so thrilled to say our Open House Event Menu Launch on the Roof Atop City Museum was a great success! We held the main event in City Museum’s Architecture Hall because of the threat of rain, which was a perfect venue to enjoy the sounds of DJ Mark Lewis, Wine Tasting by A. Bommarito Wines and our newly launched Event Catering Menu. City Museum Staff gave personal tours to the newly renovated Rooftop venue, as well as the Vault Room, Main Floor, and Cabin Inn venues.

City Museum let us show off their amazing venues, Lucky You Productions partnered with us to do decor and floral, Sappington Farmers Market donated lots of local fruits and veggies, Time for Dinner and Go! Spa donated gift certifcates in goody bags, A. Bommarito donated the wine tasting, and Premier Rentals donated linens and glasses!  It was an incredible team effort - please use these companies when you can - they are truly amazing people to do business with.

Check out the images from Borella Photography of our evening at City Museum. YUM!

We would love to help you with your next event—small, large, corporate or private.

Hollyberry Loves Events!

Sincerely,

Holly

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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Hollyberry Cookies to be featured on Rachael Ray!

On Monday, May 11th, Hollyberry’s Dave’s Double Chip Cookies are scheduled to be featured on the Rachael Ray Show at 10am CST as the Snack of the Day.  We have put together a few special packages to feature our now-famous chocolate chip cookies - http://www.hollyberrybaking.com/shop/cookies-buy-the-dozen.  We are so excited - hope you get to tune in with us!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Taste and Touch has arrived!

After a year of working and re-working the program, we have launched a new Customer Touch Program called Taste and Touch.  The idea is that if you need to connect with your prospects and clients regularly but can’t seem to get to all of them in a meaningful way - we can help!  The program is VERY simple - you can download our options on line and even fill out the spreadsheet online and get it back to us.  http://www.hollyberrybaking.com/TasteAndTouch.html

Imagine your top clients receiving an amazing box of made-from-scratch sweets with a personal note from you out of the blue!  (and it will cost YOU less than a lunch with 1 person!).  You can send just a couple of cookies to a main contact or smaller customer, or a larger package to a big opportunity or larger office!  You choose the size gift and frequency - we take care of the rest.

So far we are getting great feedback - and great ideas for NEW ways to use the program (referrals, recruiting, thanks for new business, etc.) so please check it out and share your feedback and try a sample for yourself!

We hope you like it - thank you for considering Taste and Touch!!! 
Changing the world one cookie at a time.....

Holly

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Post Season thoughts and thankfulness

So, we all got through another holiday season, and despite the doom and gloom everything turned out pretty well here at Hollyberry.  The most unique thing to me was the fact that most of the small to mid-sized companies still gave appreciation gifts, and still held their holiday parties.  Larger companies were the ones who were cancelling here and there.  I suppose that makes sense given the typical priorities of smaller companies - we understand that in harder times the thing to NOT cut from the budget is our expressions of thankfulness. 

In fact, in the spirit of that idea, we are launching a new “thank you” customer touch program called Taste and Touch that will be a repeatable, effective way to say thanks even more often than once a year.  Call me a maverick (a great 2008 word!), but I think there are plenty of people like me who realize that the 80/20 rule works, and who understand the importance of staying in front of your best clients -
all year long.

Here’s to a thankful and profitable 2009 - May God bless you all.

PS-This photo is a demonstration of what I am most thankful for -
photo by Michelle Fielden Photography.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Late night Pie Baking

The other night I was up late with a 2nd burst of energy and realized I had 2 employees with birthdays the next day.  Whenever I can, I like to try and make something for them myself, so I decided on a pie.  But, it was 10:00pm and I had barely any fruit.  So I started paging through one of my favorite Sweet cookbooks (pillsbury - The Complete Book of Baking) and found a berry pie that used frozen berries!  I know, not my preference either, but I have to say - a heck of a lot easier and for this pie it worked great!  Here is the modified recipe, which I used my mother’s homemade crust which is amazing, but not the easiest to work with, so feel free to use a shell if you are not feeling ambitious:

Hollyberry’s Triple Berry Pie:

Heat oven to 425

Filling:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 cups frozen berries (I had some cranberries and strawberries in my freezer)
1 16 oz pkg frozen blueberries (could be substituted with black or raspberries)

Crust:
Pre-made or:
2 1/2 c flour
1 t salt
3/4 Crisco

Streusel topping:
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
1/3 cup melted butter

In large saucepan, combine all filling ingredients.  Cook over medium-high heat until mixture boils, stirring constantly.  Reduce heat; simmer until mixture is very thick.  Cool 15 minutes.

While cooling, prepare crust mix by blending 1st 2 ingredients with pastry blender until crumbly. 
Add 4 T COLD water, use blender to mix
Make dough into 1 ball, flour surface, and roll it our to fit your pie pan.  Use any extra dough to line the sides and pinch all around edges.  Pour in cooled filling.  Mix streusel topping and crumble on top.  Bake about 35-45 minutes or until slightly brown and bubbly.**Put cookie pan on oven rack below where you put pie in case of boiling over!

Optional final touch:
Whip real whipping cream (small container is fine) until it forms soft peaks.  Add sugar and vanilla to taste.  Add a dollup of sour cream and lemon or orange zest if you have it and blend well.  Serve over pie.

Enjoy!!