Tropical pastries for gift baskets or special events.

Hawaii Candy and Cookies, a privately-owned bakery on the Big Island of Hawaii, has treated islanders and visitors with artisan cakes, cookies, and desserts for over fifteen years. All its baked goods are made with the finest, hand-selected, high-quality ingredients—European chocolate, sweet butter, and macadamia nuts toasted, chopped, or ground minutes before baking, fresh from a Big Island farm. Shortbread cookies with flavors from the Hawaiian land, crunchy confections, and macadamia nuts hand-dipped in fine white chocolate are now available online. Baked with aloha, tenderly wrapped, your selection of Hawaii Candy and Cookies fine pastries arrives in a ribboned, tropical, lauhala gift basket with card, sized small, medium, or large. Order from anywhere in the United States. Learn more about these delicious pastries. Coming to the Big Island? You can pre-order decorated custom cakes and desserts for a special celebration. Check out our custom cakes to get started, then contact pastry chef Karen Galan to discuss special wishes. Special ingredients, handcrafted frostings, cascading tropical flower lei, seashells, personalized messages, or even water fountains can be arranged. Cakes will be hand-delivered. Hawaii Candy and Cookies' owner Karen Galan is a passionate and skilled pastry chef with over 20 years of experience. She trained with French pâtissier Patrice Berson in Honolulu. For 16 years, she had the privilege of being mentored by Hawaii’s famous and beloved pastry expert David Brown at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island, where she became known for her gingerbread houses. Galan, who masters all things sweet—chocolates, sugar works, mousses, and petits fours, plus a variety of cakes—is also the owner and host of Hale Apapane, a secluded vacation cottage minutes away from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park that accommodates up to nine. Guests at Hale Apapane receive a sample plate of fine pastries upon arrival.