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Introducing: the Triple Tall Fall Tower

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Harvard Sweet Boutique is offering this elegant new tower of sweets–handpicked to pair ever so perfectly with anyone’s holiday celebration.

The Triple Tall Fall Tower includes three festive autumn-hued boxes filled with 4 oz of cinnamon-sugar pecans, 8 buttery frosted leaf shortbread cookies and 8 chewy ginger molasses cookies. The stack of sweets is  trussed with a leafy ribbon and can be shipped to the address of your choice.

Folks are sure to gobble them down with delight!

Do you use nuts in your products?

Yes! Great nuts. All our nuts are from local purveyor Arcade Snacks, a family-owned company based in Massachusetts since 1986. Arcade began in of the basement of the family’s home in Acton, MA, where they roasted cashews that were sold in Boston’s Logan Airport. Over twenty years later, the product line has expanded to include custom-roasted nuts, dried fruits and snack mixes using the highest-quality ingredients from around the world. There is an Arcade Nuts retail outlet near their newly renovated roasting center in Auburn, MA, and the accompanying wholesale division serves hotels, restaurants, bakeries, confectioners and retailers all across the country.

Arcade’s roasted, unsalted, unblanched almonds are used in Harvard Sweet Boutique toffees, while their roasted, unsalted macadamia nuts are used in our chocolate glazed macadamia caramel shortbread bars and our white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.

While we’re simply nuts for Arcade’s nuts, we give their dried fruits plenty of love, too. The plump, red dried cranberries are featured in our White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies (also known as “Coco Crans”), their crystallized ginger shows up in huge, sweet, chewy chunks in our Ginger Crack Cookies, and their tasty raisins make an appearance in our Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.

In an entirely different category are Sue George’s favorites (not for baking, just for eating!). First are Arcade’s Chocolate Malted Milk Balls, with a tremendous,  thick layer of chocolate surrounding a flinty, crisp malt center. Also worth noting is the 19th Hole Snack Mix, which includes Honey Roast Sesame Chips, Honey Roast Peanuts, Cajun Corn Sticks, Oriental Rice Crackers, Unblanched Almonds and Wasabi Peas. Sue claims the honey roast sesame chips to be “out of this world,” and whenever a bowl of the snack mix gets poured in the George household, Sue and her daughter Katrina fight over the honey roast peanuts.

Arcade’s retail location can be found at 205 Southbridge Street, in Auburn, MA, and can be reached by telephone at 508-832-6300.