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Local Kizitos

Posted on Sep 09, 2016

Buying local is a trend that is getting bigger by the minute. Kizito is a proud, locally-owned company in Louisville through and through. Elizabeth started from just a food cart back in the late 80’s, where she served her soon-to-be-famous cookies on the streets of downtown. With the success of her food cart, or might we say “cookie cart,” and the help of some wonderful friends and her dear mother, Elizabeth was able to start a permanent location in the Highlands. They proudly partner with retail, restaurants, and cafés in the area to provide their customers with Kizito’s famous cookies made right here in The Highlands.

In our bakery, our customers have the option to purchase a single cookie or an assorted dozen, because we know our signature chocolate chip cookie isn’t the only option in this big cookie world! Our bakery offers other sweet treats to go with our cookies, such as our house made brownies, biscottis, muffins, and our healthy option - granola. Our bakery doubles not only as a bakery, but as an African art Gallery as well.

We love our neighborhood and the Louisville community! Often times, our customers see our cookies around town but do not realize we are located right here in the Highlands. Don’t forget to stop by and visit us in our bakery, or say hello to the cookie lady next time you’re at a Bats or Louisville City game!

Biscotti

Posted on Aug 18, 2016

Biscotti is a Italian cookie that is famous throughout the world of pastries. The word biscotti is an Italian portmanteau. A portmanteau is a word that combines two words into one. For example, in the American culture “suit” and “case” are paired together to become suitcase. The word “scotto” in Italian means bake , and the word “bi" means twice. If you put those together, “biscotti” the meaning is twice baked cookie.

The birthplace of Biscotti is said to be in the Tuscany region of Italy. The cookies were carefully baked twice to get their signature crisp texture and narrow shape. Over the years this became, “the way” to make biscotti. Bakers would turn the dough into a log shape, bake it, then slice it into thin pieces, and finally toast it again.

After hundreds of years baking biscotti the traditional way, it was decided that the this was too expensive and time consuming. So they made a tray that shaped the dough into thin shaped slices, just like the original method, and does not require the second toasting time. At Kizito we prefer the traditional way. Come in and try biscotti at Kizito Cookies today!