Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/19/2022
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Gateway Center & Plaza
Categories
One Pittsburgh’s most iconic bakeries is recreating one of Pittsburgh’s most iconic holiday display’s: the famous Horne’s Tree.
The Joseph Horne Company (1849-1994) was an iconic Pittsburgh department store chain headquartered in what is now Penn Avenue Place. The retailer began the tree display in the early 1950’s. The upgraded tree is over 100-feet tall and is decorated with 2,500 eco-friendly lights and more than 2,000 ornaments. Today it is known alternately as the Unity Tree and the Highmark Tree.
Confectionary artists from Prantl’s Bakery will decorate — in real time, before the public — eight-foot-tall, real burnt almond torte cake replica of the Horne’s Tree. Visitors will even be able to go inside for selfie photos. The slices will later be sold will proceeds benefitting the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
In 1970, the torte was conceived by Henry Prantl after attending a national bakers conference, when 13 bakers demonstrated one good item from each of their bakeries. It has since become the family bakery’s signature product.
Address
Gateway Center,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15222
United States