Find us at Saturdays 8am–12pm and Sundays 9am–1pm

Four generations. One family recipe.

The best-kept secret at the dessert table.

Bite-sized Southern tassies with a buttery, flaky crust, gooey brown-sugar filling, and a big, nutty crunch.

Order local delivery
What is a tassie?

Buttery, bite-sized, and completely irresistible.

01
Buttery, flaky crust

Pressed by hand into a tender, flaky shell — built to cradle everything that comes next.

02
Gooey brown-sugar filling
03
Toasted pecan crunch
Order local delivery
Handmade in small batches

Every tassie is made with real ingredients and a whole lot of care. That’s the secret.

The keeper of the recipe

Before Allford’s was a box, it was Grandma Allford’s kitchen.

Grandma Allford and a young Amy standing together at a vintage kitchen counter, rolling out dough for tassie shells beside a tin of pressed crusts
From the Allford family album

Grandma Allford baked tassies for every gathering.

She measured by memory, pressed every crust by hand, and kept the recipe close. Four generations later it’s still ours, passed down hand to hand, tin to tin, kitchen to kitchen.

Now, for the first time, we’re baking beyond the family kitchen — from our kitchen in Old Town Alexandria, with Grandma Allford’s cherished family recipe. Still small-batch: hand-pressed crusts, the original recipe, and a limited number of delivery slots each week.

Small batchFresh, locally sourced ingredientsFour-generation family recipe
Baking & delivering from Alexandria, VA & Wilmington, NC
The Collection

One family recipe. Three ways to share.

Allford's white window box of four pecan tassies
Four tassies

The 'lil Taste

$12
For first tastes

Your first taste: four tassies that rarely survive the ride home from the market.

Order this box
An open Allford's box with a Congrats card envelope on the tissue, beside two tassies on a blue toile plate
Something more?

Gifting & Events

For occasions

For holidays, house weekends, office gifts, and anyone smart enough to buy one box for the party and one for home.

Explore gifting & event orders

Delivery minimums apply: local delivery orders total a dozen tassies. Mix any boxes to get there.

“Where did you find these?”

It’s the question every box earns. Dinner parties. Sunday suppers. Holiday tables. Client gifts. Bring a box anywhere. Then wait for someone to take one bite and ask.

Order local delivery

Find us at Del Ray Farmers Market (Saturdays 8am–12pm) and Old Town North Farmers Market (Sundays 9am–1pm).

Sharing the love, or planning an event?Give the gift of tassies

Outside our delivery area? Join the list and be first when we ship.

Shipping is coming soon and first batches will be limited.

A Carolina coast scene: the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, a live oak draped in spanish moss, the Wright Flyer overhead, and a tin of Allford's pecan tassies in the dunes