If you were craving sweets this holiday season, the ezCater office pantry had everything you needed. Cookies, chocolates, caramels; you name it, we had it. The ezTeam was spoiled by an abundance of sweet treats. Three coffee cakes even showed up and sparked a little friendly competition. It wasn’t your average eating competition though. Instead, we held a haiku competition.
Our team waxed poetic about coffee cake and three winners took home a cake of their own. Who knew we had such talented poets among us?
Here are the haikus that flowed in:

Adam Haywood (Coffee Cake Winner)
Coffee cake crumbles
Butter and sugar pieces
How do you not spill
Panera in house
Coffee cakes circling round
Which one will I win
There is no coffee
Except only in its name
New name: morning cake

Alex Haigh
One Haiku for You
Others may have two or three
Too bad, that’s so sad
I want coffee cake
May I have the coffee cake?
Thank you, very much

Amy Boerger
Swirls, sponge like, pure love,
Many crumbs are in my beard.
I eat like a slob.

Bob Solorio
Secret beyond time,
Mystery of the ages:
Contains no coffee

Casey Paul
Frog walks on water
Out into the dark he croaks
“Give me coffee cake”

CJ Johanson (Coffee Cake Winner)
Warm, swirled dough rises,
Heart racing, our paths now crossed,
My soul is yours. Cake.

David Mayer
Butter, salt, sugar
The scent wafts dangerously
Let cool for the night

Desiree Zimmermann
Coffee cake, coffee
Go together very well
Let’s have a snack break

Emily Stephenson
Cake with that java
Mumbling much crumbling
Get in my mouth please

Erica Young
Crunchy, warm, delicious
ez to eat the whole plate
Boston coffee cake
Quick, ez, Simple
Is there anything better
Than leftover Pizza?

Hillary Bauer
Let us do all the work
So you can take the credit
Boston coffee cake

Jesse Belanger
Hard-shelled walnut
Yielding to springy, moist cake.
Deliciousness roots.
Blueberry blizzard
Blankets rolling hills. Belies
Coziness within.
Marbled black and white.
Balancing, swirled union.
Yin and yang as cake.
Josh Zalinger
Coffee cake. … Coffee?
Not coffee. Cake, not coffee.
Love not-coffee cake!

Julian Plovnick
This is just to say,
I really want coffee cake.
Something about plums.

Kayla Vaccaro (Coffee Cake Winner)
I can’t eat sugar
But marble madness sounds great
Diet is canceled
Michael Berkowitz
In winter, coffee
Beans, ground as fine as snow, steeped,
And then served with cake

Steph Karwacki
Cinnamon-coated
Candied walnuts, airy cake.
Morning made better.
Takashi Essex
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerato

TJ O’Brien
Challenging vices
Coffee and cake tempt me so
Just one cake won’t hurt
We have the best cakes
Folks, believe me, they are huge
Huge cakes, bigly hug

Tom Thrift
Dear my friend Santa
All I want for Christmas is
Blueberry Blizzard

Tyler Berman
Chat over coffee?
I don’t really drink caffeine.
How ’bout coffee cake!?
I don’t really chat,
But I do love coffee cakes.
Can you prepare 3?
Sorry for the mess.
Did not anticipate this.
Should have brought napkins!
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