Happy New Year!!!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by last Saturday and today. This has been a fabulous winter opening and a wonderful finale to our 15th year!

Bill and I wish you a  very Happy New Year and we hope it is very much like our butter tarts; sweet, satisfying and full of ooey gooey goodness! We plan to party like it's 1899 (but with movies and natchos).

Have a fabulous long weekend. Please please please stay safe and healthy and come back to see us in 2024. We'll be waiting! ❤️

Winter Opening 2023

It's beginning to look like it's time to think about our winter opening! 🎶

'kayso... we've been thinking about it since we closed Thanksgiving weekend but it is drawing near and we're looking forward to getting back into the kitchen to do some baking making for your winter celebrations.

We hope you are all doing well, staying safe and healthy and having a wonderul start to the winter season which hasn't officially begun although the snow (and freezing drizzle happening right now) says it has.

Anyhoo, we are getting ready and so if you are here, around or in the vicinity of the Haliburton Highlands on Dember 23rd or 30th, we hope you drop by even if it's just to say hello because we've missed you. ❤️ 

 

Frost is on the Pumpkin

 Well, my friends, the frost is (literally) on the pumpkin.

As Bill so elequently put it; "It's a warning shot across the bow."

Winter is coming. (That's not trademarked, is it?)

But not yet.

But soon.

Hey, on the bright side... no zombies....

... yet.

We hope you are all well and having a wonderful autumn. ❤️

 

Thank You for 15 Fabulous Years!

No matter how many times we say it, or how emphtically it is expressed, the words always feel flat; "Thank you" can't begin to tell you the overwhelming emotion we feel every year when we realize there will be another one.

Fifteen years has come and gone since we first opened The Little Tart and there are many of you who have been with us since then. Two little words can't convey the way we feel about that.

Each year, when we open our doors, we don't know if there will be a next year. We have, on a few occasions said to ourselves, "It was good while it lasted." And a couple of those were in the past few years. As Bill and I have both learned - and as I have quoted now and again - "Life is what happens while you were busy making other plans." We have had our fair share of ups and downs during the lifetime of The Little Tart but the one constant - our true secret to still being here - is you. It has been from day one - has been for fifteen years and so "thank you" doesn't fully express our gratitude for your support, kindness, generosity and understanding when we have had to face unexpected "life happens" circumstances.

And now here we are and the end of another season and we are looking forward to the next one which makes this a very successful year. We want you to know that this "thank you" overflows with love and affection and adoration. You make us want to do our very best work and for The Little Tart to be the very best we can make it for you. The business itself is four walls and two crazy bakers. Each and every one of you make The Little Tart a special place that we are so proud to be a part of.

'kayso, now that the mushy gushy is out of the way, let's move on to Christmas because that's our next focus and a lot of you have asked about it. 

It is our plan to have a Christmas opening. The weather has its own plan (as we learned last year) so we're going to have a chat with Winter and see if we can get some cooperation. You scoff, but I did me some talking to the sun. Did you see that beautiful weather we had?

You're welcome.

We hope you are having a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend. Have a wonderful fall, winter and - if we don't see you before then - spring.  Please, please, please stay safe and healthy and come back and see us again because, until you do, we'll miss you. ❤️

Thanksgiving Weekend

Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving weekend!

Well, it's that time again. We're reaching the end of our season. (Sniff... sorry, I have something in my eye.)

While we are booked for pies, we have prepped and will be making baking to stock the store. And so, my friends, whether you are visiting the many talented artists on the studio tour or doing some leaf looking (while it lasts) and/or if you're celebrating Thanksgiving in or near the Haliburton Highlands we sure hope you'll stop by.

Have a fabulous Friday and a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! ❤️

 

All Booked for Pumpkin Pies

 

After a rush of orders this morning we are now fully booked and can not take any more pumpkin pie orders.

We're sorry if you missed out but we will be stocking the store with tarts and treats Thanksgiving weekend.

Have a wonderful day! ❤️

Pumpkin Pies/Saturday booked

'kayso, as the photo says, we are fully booked for pumpkin pies Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend.

We still have room Friday and Sunday. As always we will stock the store as well. 

Have a funfilled, sunfilled Saturday! ❤️

Closed Sunday October 1st/Thanksgiving Hours

 Sadly, our fall season is begining to wind down, however, we still have a few weekends to go.

Next weekend we will be closed on Sunday. There are, in life, milestone celebrations too precious to be missed and we wouldn't miss this one for the world.

We will add Friday to Thanksgiving weekend and, of course, we're open this weekend and we sure hope you'll stop by if your around.

Have a fabulous Friday night and a wildly wonderful weekend! ❤️

End of Summer and Fall Hours

And that concludes our summer season.

I won't take up your time with a long winded, mushy, gushy post. (I'll save that for Thanksgiving weekend.)

If you have been with us for a while you've heard this before, but if you're new to our The Little Tart community (and we have met a lot of new people this summer which is absolutely wonderful) we want you to know that summer is everything to this little business. We have essentialy two months to make our year. We give it everything we've got and hope it's good enough to keep you coming back and telling others. That's what keeps us here. That is what has kept this little business going for fifteen years. Whether you have been coming here for fifteen years or found us while passing through, whether it has been eight years or eight minutes (yep, it happens) since you were last here, Bill and I can't thank you enough for another amazing summer season. We appreciate and adore each and every one of you. Whether you support us in the store or offer kind words of encouragement here online, we appreciate and adore you. We know and we never forget that without you there is no The Little Tart. We consider ourselves extremely fortunate and can never, ever thank you enough.

And now that the summer is winding down, it is time for us to slow things down. We will have new fall hours until Thanksgiving weekend. That weekend we will add the Friday but you don't need to remeber that. I'll post it. If you're in, around, or nearby the Haliburton Highlands this autumn we hope you'll pop by and if your time here ends with the summer we sure hope you'll visit us again next year.

We hope you're having a super-duper stupendously satisfying Sunday and an absolutely fabulous long weekend! ❤️

July Hours

 Thank you so much to everyone who made 

The Little Tart 

a part of your Canada Day weekend! 

We're OPEN Canada Day

You can bet your butter tarts we are! 

 

Father's Day weekend

 

Happy Father's day weekend!

The sun is shining, the birds are singing and summer is just around the corner! 

Bill and I have baked up a bountiful bunch (yes, two words that mean pretty much the same thing however, for the sake of alliteration to make this a more intersting sounding post, I went with it)of treats.

We are OPEN and hoping you'll pay us a visit if you're in, around or near the Haliburton Highlands this weekend!

Have a super duper Saturday! ❤️

June Hours

 Hip hip hooray!

June is on the way!

Let's add another day!

Boompy-doompy eh! 

(yep, we're just getting started, folks)

Victoria Day Long Weekend

 We are heading into the first long weekend of the season!

Drama Berry Tart

Happy Mother's Day!

Today we would like to introduce you to our new "Drama Berry" tart. This tart features an all star cast of blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. Oh the high jinks this lot get up to in their fruit and cream filling. You can read about it in the store. That's right! The story signs are back and rewritten. Here's a hint: "Drama Berry" is a play! 

Who doesn't like a little drama in their tart? 

It's a beautiful day. We hope you're having a fantabulous one! ❤️

Buried Treasure

We are sold out and closed for the rest of today.

We will open again at 10am Saturday! 

What a fantabulous start to a new season! We call this a "soft opening" because it's very early in the season and it takes us some time to get into the swing of things and work our way into a "routine" again. Picture "Swan Lake" performed by Daffy Duck. It takes a little time to get the choreography down, especially when we're trying to introduce something new. (Do you sense the segue?)

We introduced "Buried Treasure" this weekend. (We had planned on waiting for summer but didn't want to... okay, we couldn't wait.) It is, as you all guessed, a peanut butter and chocolate tart. Just like everything else in the store, "Buried Treasure" is made from scratch and contains our very own chocolate crust, our very own peanut butter filling and it's topped with a rich chocolate ganache. We're so happy the feedback so far has been super positive. We have a few more treat surprises to come which we'll reveal as the season progresses and things really ramp up.

We're so happy to be open and look forward to baking for you again the year! Thank you so much to everyone who paid us a visit this weekend and for all the kindness and love here online. We hope you're having a super spectacular weekend and we'll look forward to doing this all again next weekend!

Have a wonderful afternoon and evening. ❤️

 

 

A New Season Begins

Our 15th season has begun! 

 

May Hours

 

A Sneak Peek

 Good morning!

The countdown is on. We are one week away from starting our fifteenth season!

The store is just about ready. Let me tell you, it was a bigger job than we expected... or we're just getting older and slowing down. 

We hope that what we have done conveys how much we love this little shop. We are so excited for you to visit and see what we've done. In the meantime we thought you might like a sneak peek!

Ready for it...

I hope you're sitting down...

Ta-da!!!

'kayso, image #1 is our brand new outlets and outlet plates. That's right, we changed all of them!

Image #2 is our brand new switches and switch plates. You guessed it! We changed all of those too.

Image #3? It's not nearly as exciting and you probably don't even care but that's one of a couple of new tarts for this summer. We can talk about that later.

And there you have it! Exciting stuff huh? Was it everything you'd hoped and dreamed about?

Well, we're putting on all the finishing touches today because prep begins tomorrow.

We hope you're having the best weekend ever. I'll post hours early next week. Spoiler alert: 10-4 Saturday and Sunday 

Have a fabulous Saturday! ❤️

 

Spring Opening 2023!

Ahhh... spring. Ain't she sweet?

Well, it may not look like spring but it sure feels like it here. We are in The Little Tart mode once again and gearing up for our 15th year!

We're giving the store a little love; freshening things up. Let's face it she's been ridden hard and... well... it's time. That's happening right now!

On that note I'm here to announce our opening this year will begin on May 6th at 10am!

We have a lot of work ahead of us but we'll be ready and hope you'll be stopping by this year because we sure have missed you!