Noticed a different taste and look in your go-to pastry from Coffee Club? It’s not just you. At the start of the fall semester, Coffee Club changed their pastry provider to Delizioso, a pastry shop in Princeton, due to supply issues with their previous vendor, The Gingered Peach, which recently halted its deliveries to the student-run coffee shop.
“We’ve been working with The Gingered Peach pretty much since the beginning of Coffee Club’s history,” Amalia Haile-Manas ’25, the Executive Director of Coffee Club told The Daily Princetonian. According to Haile-Manas, the Lawrence Township-based business needed to focus its resources on the opening of its Trenton location, and thus no longer had the capacity to provide wholesale shipments of pastries to Coffee Club for the time being.
Though they had to search for a new pastry vendor, to fill the temporary gap, Haile-Manas described the switch as fairly easy, despite a short period at the beginning of the semester where the shop was left without pastries.
“We were pastry-less for about two days of school,” Haile-Manas explained. While she expected the entire transition to take a couple of weeks, all it took was a quick phone call and their new provider was able to begin supplying new pastries soon enough.
Delizioso, located at 205 Witherspoon Street, is the new pastry provider for Coffee Club. Due to the switch, Coffee Club will offer new baked goods, including donuts and a spinach-feta croissant.
“I haven’t personally gotten to try all the pastries yet,” Haile-Manas admitted, “but I’ve liked the ones I’ve tried, and people have been saying good things, so I think it’s been a success so far.”
She describes the club’s experience thus far with their new supplier favorably and has noticed a positive response from customers to the new products. However, if you are ever missing the taste of their old pastries, worry not — The Gingered Peach still supplies Small World Coffee’s pastries.
The new pastries from Delizioso seem to be flying off the shelves as almost all of them were sold out when I stopped by their Campus Club location. However, I managed to try two of their new pastries: a raspberry lemon scone and a puff pastry cinnamon roll.
The scone had the perfect amount of tanginess from the lemon, the right amount of crisp on the outside, and a nice soft texture on the inside, with the pleasant addition of dried raspberries and poppy seeds. Although the scone was quite delicious, I especially enjoyed the cinnamon roll. Upon the first bite, the layers of golden, flaky puff pastry offered the perfect texture for the rich buttery swirl of cinnamon. The glaze drizzled on top added the perfect balance of sweetness to contrast with the light spiciness of the cinnamon.
If you want to try something new to accompany your afternoon pick-me-up beverage, be sure to swing by Coffee Club in the coming weeks. No matter the vendor, there will always be an abundance of sweet treats available at both of their locations if you are ever in need of a boost of energy or satiating a sweet tooth. Hopefully, students will no longer have to suffer any more pastry-less days.
Correction: This article has been updated to clarify that The Gingered Peach will be unable to provide Coffee Club the pastries for a temporary period.
Natalia Diaz is a member of the Class of 2027 and a staff writer for The Prospect and a staff Audience creator at the ‘Prince.’ She can be reached at nd6595[at]princeton.edu.
Please send any corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com.
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