Your "let them eat cake" philosophy knows no bounds.

To wit: You bring baked goods to the office for everyone's birthday (even the creepy IT guy) just for an excuse to get a bite.

Next office shindig, give 3 Tiers a whirl. Pastry chef (and St. Paul Hotel alum) Sarah Herr and her husband Bryan opened shop just last summer.

Sweets -- cookies, cakes, cupcakes, truffles, petit fours -- are the bakery's bread and butter, but there are coffee drinks and lunch items (fresh stromboli) too. We suggest the two-bite-sized petit fours in sachertorte (apricot jam and dark chocolate) and rich chocolate. At $2.25 each, they're three layers (of course) and rich, satisfying and so pretty.

Speaking of, isn't the cute mail guy's 30th coming up?

3 Tiers, 5011 34th Av S, Mpls, 612-746-1767.

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