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This recipe from Valerie Gordon, owner of Valerie Confections in Los Angeles and author... Read more...

February 2015 Sweet 16 A sampler of Los Angeles-area chocolate and treat shops for that Valentine sugar high Valerie Gordon and her partner, Stan Weightman Jr., started out with a... Read more...

Bon Appétit

The Hot Ten America's Best New Restaurants Downtown L.A.'s Seminal Food Hall just got a fresh lease on life. Now it bustling with new counters and customers, serving up diversity... Read more...

In Style

Delicious By Design Is there anything more indulgent that an over the top confection, be it a floaty tiered gown or a rich chocolate parfait? To double tempt you, we... Read more...

CRAVINGS Valerie Gordon creates impressive and refined pastries and confections Recipe for Pear Tart with Vanilla Cream and Black Tea Crust Read more...

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Fine Cooking

SWEET Inspired Ingredients, Unforgettable Desserts Valerie Gordon, owner of the insanely popular L.A. bake shop Valerie Confections, serves up superb recipes for sweets that are as delicious as they are... Read more...

Oprah Magazine

SWEET DREAMER Baker and confectioner Valerie Gordon thinks outside the candy box As an 8 year old, Valerie Gordon started making chocolate chip cookies for her classmates. Those bake sessions... Read more...

Town & Country

SWEET COMEBACK At a Los Angeles bakery, lovingly recreated cakes inspire rabid devotion - and holiday orders by Marnie Hanel Nora Ephron, the late beloved writer, declared Valerie Confections' Coffee... Read more...

C Magazine

Ain't it Grand? New York has Chelsea Market and S.F. has the Ferry Building Marketplace. An authentic gourmet hub in L.A. has been noticeably absent—until now. Today, as the Grand Central... Read more...

C Magazine

Shelf Stable Dinner parties are on - courtesy of the Golden State's most distinguished cooks and restaurants. Valerie Gordon, SWEET The queen of vintage cakes has spent years researching recipes... Read more...

Travel Girl

Gimme Some Sugar Call me biased, but I really love this artisan choco- latier’s name! The “Best of Valerie Tote” contains the highly lauded, LA company’s most popular confections: Durango... Read more...

Angeleno

The Market Maven Valerie Gordon uncovers the best produce and protein at the local farmers markets for her work at Valerie Confections and her family By Lesley Balla Photography by... Read more...

L.A. Confidential

CHOCOLATES A LA MODE By David Hochman Valerie Confections feels more homegrown, but certainly no less delicious. Inside the unadorned storefront on a forgotten strip just south of Silver Lake,... Read more...

Traditional Home

The Sweet Lifeby Jenny Bradleyphotographs by Taylor Peden and Jen MunkvoldChocolate dipped figs. Peppermint bark. Mint petits fours. There may not be sugarplums on the menu, but Valerie Gordon's holiday... Read more...

Food & Wine

L.A.'s Best Wrap Partyby Kristin Donnellyphotographs by Jonny ValiantGifts in hand, Los Angeles’s A-list tastemakers get together to swap presents and stories over a fantastic meal.Anyone who has ever been... Read more...

C Magazine

A Taste of Timeby Alison Clare SteingoldOne chef's line of exquisite edibles brings a little decadence back to L.A. life.Some people have the uncanny ability to hit that California sweet... Read more...

L.A. Times Magazine

As the week day lunch hour wanes, a lingering frisson of energy is still palpable among the chocolate stained tempering machines and stainless steel prep tables at Valerie Confections near... Read more...

Bon Appetit

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The New York Times Style Magazine

Los Angeles Cake Revivalby Robert Trachtenberg Addicted to cake at an early age, I watched helplessly as bakeries, department-store tea rooms and restaurants in my native Los Angeles met the... Read more...

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