Since 1906, Vaccaro’s Desserts has made Italian pastries in the Washington, D.C., tradition, with its cannoli at the center of the family business. Now in its fourth generation, the company still uses John Vaccaro’s exact recipe and hand-rolls its shells, while producing and packaging everything in-house for foodservice customers and home orders. Vaccaro’s describes itself as the oldest in-house cannoli maker in the USA.
Vaccaro's Italian Pastry ShopFounded in Baltimore in 1956 by Palermo-born Gioacchino “Mr. Jimmy” Vaccaro, Vaccaro’s Italian Pastry Shop makes Sicilian pastries and other Italian desserts using the Old World recipes he brought from Italy. Now led by his son Nick, the family business has grown from its original shop into a pastry operation with a production facility, cafés across Greater Baltimore, and nationwide shipping. Cannoli and rum cake remain its signature Baltimore favorites.BALTIMORE, MD
Ferrara Bakery & CafeSince 1892, Ferrara Bakery & Cafe has made traditional Italian pastries and desserts at its family-owned pasticceria and espresso bar in New York City’s Little Italy. Now in its fifth generation, the bakery is known for fresh, hand-crafted specialties such as cannoli, sfogliatella and torrone, with recipes and techniques carried through the Lepore family. Ferrara also supplies wholesale orders, custom cakes and nationwide dessert shipments from its historic Grand Street bakery.NEW YORK, NY
Clement's Pastry Shop IncSince Italian pastry chef Clement Maggia founded it in 1928, Clement’s Pastry Shop has grown from a Washington, D.C., neighborhood shop into a Hyattsville bakery manufacturing pastries and desserts for the wholesale food industry. Still family-owned across five generations, the company serves customers throughout the Mid-Atlantic while also developing private-label desserts for national partners. Its menu spans more than 200 products, and the bakery is annually certified through the Safe Quality Food program.HYATTSVILLE, MD
Civitello's Italian Pastry ShoppeSince 1921, Civitello’s Italian Pastry Shoppe has made Italian cookies, pastries, spumoni, ices and other treats in Schenectady. Founded by Ralph Civitello after immigrating from Alvignano, Italy, the shop remains a family tradition, with the Angerami sisters carrying its homemade recipes into a third generation. Its old-fashioned storefront still serves as a gathering place, and its cookies are baked without preservatives, hand-packed to order and shipped across the continental United States.SCHENECTADY, NY