Siouxland Magazine - Volume 5 Issue 3

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Buscioni’s Bakes
By Amy Buster
Henry Chrestensen is the owner and baker of
Buscioni’s Bakes in Lawton, Iowa. However, this
is not your typical small-town bakery. Buscioni’s also
caters to diet restrictions, with their specialty being
gluten free baked goods.
“We make New York Style cheesecakes from scratch,
and that also includes gluten-free. We have lots
of flavors: old school traditional, chocolate, and
pumpkin. You can’t really tell the difference from the
gluten-free when you taste it, other than it is slightly
denser,” explained Henry.
For all of you pumpkin fans out there, that isn’t
a flavor he carries only in the fall. Due to the high
demand, it is a flavor he carries year-round now.
“I’ve always had a passion for cooking and baking, I
like making people happy,” said Henry.
His biggest seller at the moment at the bakery is
cannoli.
“As far as I know, I’m the only baker in the Siouxland
area that makes fresh cannoli. We have a wide variety
of flavors. Of course the traditional vanilla-base with
chocolate chips, pistachio, amaretto for the adults,
pumpkin, and then seasonal flavors like peppermint,”
explained Henry.
Leave the donuts, pick up or order the cannoli.
Buscioni’s also can custom-make birthday cakes; not
only customize the design, but also the flavors.
“We did a Pokémon cake for a five-year old’s birthday.
It was chocolate obsession for the cake, that had
seven different types of chocolate in it, chocolate
cream cheese frosting, and then I made blue and
purple decorations, and we designed the Pokémon
character for decoration,” said Henry.
The cake itself took two days to completely construct
and bake.
“I used Nutella, chocolate syrup, hot fudge, three
different kinds of chocolate chips, and different
flavors of cocoa. Basically, some dentist is going to
be very upset with me about this cake,” said Henry.