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These Dallas bakeries are doing special Easter sweets and treats

Easter cookie from Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie

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Although Easter is hailed as a religious holiday, it’s also recognized as a symbol of spring, pastel colors, and sweet treats. And who among us is not interested in where to get a lime green iced cookie or bunny-shaped cake?

With the March 31 date looming, these Dallas shops and bakeries are offering a smorgasbord of goodies, including the seasonal spring favorite hot cross buns (sweet rolls, studded with dried fruit, raisins, and/or candied fruit, plus cross-shaped icing), which are also sold at supermarkets including Whole Foods and Central Market.

This list includes both locally owned spots and national chains, and it will continue to be updated as the holiday nears. Still don’t know where to get Easter brunch? We’ve got that list here.

Note: Some of these offerings have order-by deadlines, and those are noted.

Here’s where to get an Easter treat in Dallas:

Bresnan Bread & Pastry in McKinney has a pack of six hot cross buns for $13 and a lemon meringue pie with strawberry rhubarb compote for $38. Preorder by noon March 26 for pickup March 30. Closed on Easter Sunday. 214-578-1979.

Bisous Bisous Pâtisserie will have custom Easter-themed macarons in flavors like lemon marshmallow, carrot cake, and lemon raspberry. They’re also doing Easter-themed tarts and cakes, plus a carrot cake croissant and carrot cake cruffin. Available to preorder online or in-store from the case. 214-613-3570.

Casa Linda Bakery in East Dallas has Easter-themed cupcakes in flavors such as lemon, strawberry, and red velvet for $3.50-$3.75. They’re also doing Easter bunny-cutout and egg-themed cakes, plus petit fours. 214-321-0551.

CocoAndré Chocolatier & Horchatería in Oak Cliff is selling themed lollipops and chocolates shaped like bunnies, flowers, Easter eggs, carrots, and chicks. 214-941-3030.

Eataly, the Italian food emporium, is selling its first La Colomba di Pasqua, AKA “Easter dove,” a fluffy Easter cake they say marks the arrival of spring in Italian households. It's similar to panettone, but baked into a dove shape and comes in various flavors including chocolate-raspberry, 4-fruit, limoncello, chocolate-orange, and vegan chocolate chip, and is $26 to $50.

Empire Baking Co. has brought back its hot cross buns, priced at $9.96 for a four-pack. They’re also offering a lemon chess pie, ham & cheese quiche, iced coconut cake, iced apple cinnamon walnut bread, and mini cinnamon rolls. Ordering deadline is March 26, but they'll be available in-store through March 28. Inwood Village 214-350-0007, SMU 214-308-7025.

Haute Sweets Patisserie in Lake Highlands has a variety of Easter treats, including a bunny cake made with vanilla cake stuffed with strawberry marmalade and vanilla pastry cream and iced with vanilla buttercream for $75; a chocolate egg pod, a hand-painted dark chocolate egg filled with Easter candies for $20; an egg-shaped chocolate brownie for $8; and carrot cupcakes with cream cheese icing for $4. Lake Highlands 214-856-0166, Far North Dallas 469-677-5757.

House of Bread in McKinney has a range of Easter baked goods, including a four-pack of hot cross buns for $10.49, a dozen cinnamon rolls or blueberry muffins for $34.99, carrot or chocolate zucchini quick bread for $9.99, ham & cheddar or veggie quiche for $17.99, and spring focaccia bread for $9.99. Preorder by March 27 for pickup March 29-30. 214-842-8066.

Hot Cross Buns Ravelin Bakery Hot cross buns from Ravelin Bakery in Denton, cooling on a rack.Ravelin

JK Chocolate, a cookie shop on Lovers Lane, has several Easter gift bundles, including a half dozen carton of Easter eggs filled with their signature “microchip” cookies for $25 and an Easter pail filled with a stuffed bunny, plastic bunny filled with orange sugar microchip cookies and two plastic eggs filled with chocolate chip microchip cookies for $26. 214-350-0427.

Le Gourmet Baking, the shortbread cookie shop in Park Cities, has bunny, carrot, and egg-shaped cookies available individually or in gift boxes. 214-738-2378.

Leila Bakery & Cafe in East Dallas is offering a rose and cardamom spiced hummingbird cake, strawberry rhubarb pie, a four-pack of hot cross buns, and carrot cake. Preorder for pickup March 30; closed Easter Sunday. 972-807-6297.

Proper Baking Co. is selling hot cross buns for $3.50 each, $18 for six, or $36 for a dozen. Other Easter treats include their Cadburys Cream Egg Scotch Egg, a cadbury's cream egg wrapped in cold brew chocolate coffee cake, double-breaded in coconut flakes, and deep fried; Scotch Egg, a hard-boiled egg wrapped in pork and double-breaded then deep fried; and simnel cupcakes, made with simnel sponge cake and topped with almond buttercream and cadbury’s mini eggs. 817-807-5414.

Ravelin Bakery, the artisanal baker in Denton, is selling hot cross buns, some of the best in Dallas-Fort Worth, for $1.85 each. 940-382-8561.

Society Bakery & Tea Room in east Dallas is making cookies and cakes iced to look like robin’s eggs ($4.95 per cookie and $56.99 minimum per cake), a four-pack of Easter bunny cookies for $16, petit fours with soft pink icing for $5, and a six-pack of frosting rosette-topped cupcakes for $27. 214-827-1411.

Sprinkles, the cupcake and cookie bakery chain, has Easter cupcake flavors including Chocolate Bunny, a dark chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache core and chocolate cream cheese frosting topped with a ladle of chocolate ganache for $6; and Easter Fancy Sprinkle, a red velvet cake topped with cream cheese frosting and Easter sprinkles for $5.60. Available individually or in a sampler through March 31. Dallas 214-369-0004, Plano 469-969-0171.

SusieCakes, the home-style bakery concept from California, is selling Easter-themed cakes and cupcakes, Easter-frosted sugar cookies, and an Easter-themed DIY sugar cookie kit. Hillside Village 945-245-2253, Luther Lane 214-983-2253, Fort Worth 817-813-2253.

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High-profile Dallas restaurant to open in Frisco's Firefly Park

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Two high-profile Dallas-Fort Worth food & beverage concepts are headed to Frisco: That includes Frenchie, an all-day Dallas cafe from Travis Street Hospitality, and Second Rodeo Brewing, a Fort Worth brewery and garden from Jason Boso (Truck Yard).

According to a release, the two restaurants will open locations at the Shops at Firefly Park, a 217-acre mixed-use development by Wilks Development at 8000 McKinney Rd., at the nexus of US Hwy. 380 and the Dallas North Tollway that's been in the works since 2022.

In addition to the restaurants, Woodhouse Spa, a luxury spa chain with 90-plus locations across 25 states, will also open a location.

The trio will join Tyler's, a Texas-based sportswear retailer which will open a location on the ground floor of Aurora, the 18-story residential high-rise. This brings phase one at The Shops at Firefly Park to 41 percent leased, with an additional 29 percent under LOI and lease agreements still to come.

Frenchie
Frenchie is the concept from Travis Street Hospitality (Knox Bistro, Georgie, Rose Cafe), created by Stephan Courseau and Daniele Garcia, which made its debut in 2025 with a first location in North Dallas, taking over the long-occupied Corner Bakery space at 8420 Preston Center Plaza.

Frenchie is described as a quintessential French brasserie — a casual, everyday restaurant serving an all-day menu of French comfort food: crepes, rillettes, quiche, poulet rôti, tartare de boeuf, salade Parisienne, and pâtes au pistou. In the morning, coffee and croissants. At lunch, burgers and onion soup. At dinner, steak frites and profiteroles.

The Dallas location spotlights small French wineries, while cocktails include a "freezer martini" — custom bottled and pre-chilled by Travis Street Hospitality’s Executive Mixologist, Mario Martinez, exclusively for Frenchie.

"Firefly Park was an opportunity not to be missed," says Travis Street Hospitality founder Stephan Courseau in a statement. "The vision of a high-end, family-oriented development in fast-growing Frisco checked all the boxes for our concept."

Second Rodeo Brewing
Second Rodeo is an indoor/outdoor destination created by Boso, known for live music, on-site brewing, and an approachable menu. The concept made its debut at Mule Alley at 122 E. Exchange Ave. in the Fort Worth Stockyards in September 2021.

Boso had already brought the Austin-style beer garden concept to Dallas with the 2013 opening of Truck Yard off Greenville Avenue, went the next step with Second Rodeo by adding a beer brewing component as well. There are now Truck Yard locations in Fort Worth's Alliance, Richardson, The Colony, and Oklahoma City, but this will be only the second Second Rodeo.

At the Fort Worth location, food consists of dressed-up cheesesteaks and chicken wings, plus cocktails and Texas beer. The space has an enclosed patio with retractable roof, entertainment stage, small dance floor, with live music every day plus outdoor games and a giant swing.

Woodhouse Spa
Offerings include spa treatments, facials, body therapies, sleep-focused services, and nail care. There are currently two Dallas-area locations, at Mockingbird Station and in Plano at Legacy Town Center.

All three tenants are scheduled to open in Fall 2027 — part of Firefly Park's first phase, which will include retail, residential, office, and hotel components.

Upon full buildout, Firefly Park will feature 4 million square feet of Class AA office space, 400,000 square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment, 1,200 hotel rooms, 230 townhomes, and 1,970 residential units, anchored by a 45-acre signature park with pond, trails, water features, and event programming

"With the addition of Second Rodeo, Frenchie, and Woodhouse Spa, we are continuing to curate a vibrant and intentional experience in Frisco," says Wilks Development president & CEO Kyle Wilks in a statement. "Firefly Park will be a place people return to again and again—whether to dine, unwind, connect, or explore."

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