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14 grab-and-go desserts to make every day as sweet as Valentine’s Day

Make customers sweet on you with fun, portable, spur-of-the-moment desserts, revved-up and ready to go.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

February 14, 2023

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At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, giant chocolate chip cookies have come in for a landing in students’ hearts. Chewy, slightly doughy, melty in the right places and with that perfect amount of crisp lacy edge, this is the current favorite grab-and-go sweet treat. When Valentine’s Day comes around, chocolate-dipped strawberries and pretty pink cupcakes fly off the shelves in containers. “Students are able to grab, go and enjoy,” says Embry-Riddle’s Sodexo Marketing Director Candice Kingery. In addition, turnovers and muffins from the bake shop featuring rotating flavors “keep students excited and wanting more.” That’s what treat-yourself-on-the-go sweets do best. Read on for examples of fun, celebratory, even protein-packed/healthy-ish sweet treats for grab-and-go, including churros (recipe linked!), red velvet cupcakes, heart-shaped mini cakes, oatmeal energy balls, Milk Bar confetti cookies, lemon bars, brownies, caramel corn and more. You may decide they’re perfect not just on Valentine’s Day, but every day. 

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About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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