Berry Delicious

Deciding what to serve for dessert this summer should be easy as pie.

The filling in this pie from the Bon Ton Bakery is 95 per cent blueberries, with no artificial fillers, flavours or colouring.

“Our pie crust is made with butter and non-hydrogenated shortening,” says Hilton Dinner, a co-owner of the bakery since 2000. “The butter provides the flavour and the shortening provides a flaky crust. There are no fillers in our pie – it’s just pure blueberry bliss.”

Dinner recommends serving the pie warm with a dollop of vanilla gelato on the side. (He says Dacapo Caffe makes excellent gelato.)

For the summer only, Bon Ton, located in Edmonton’s west end, is also making a mixed berry pie (with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries) and a fresh Saskatoon berry pie throughout July and August. Availability depends on crop yields.

The Bon Ton has been a staple in Edmonton for more than 50 years. The bakery’s original owner, Eugene Edelmann, is credited with bringing the bagel to Edmonton in the 1950s. The bakery typically sells 950 loaves of bread and 1,700 sweet-sticky buns on Saturdays. Customers drive from the opposite end of town for the baked-from-scratch cookies.

If you go, be sure to pick up the bakery’s signature granola to keep you going all week. Dinner says it’s flying off the shelves. Call (780) 489-7717 or visit 8720-149 Street, Edmonton.