Best Moments Bakery

Name of Truck: Best Moments

Name of Owner: Lily Lapp

Location: High Desert Music Hall, 818 SW Forest Ave.

Hours: Winter hours are 3-7 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays; 2-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays.

Date Opened: Business opened in April 2021, opened their truck in April 2022.

About the Cart: Best Moments offers all things desert — from pies to cookies, brownies, cakes and more. Lapp says that everything is made from scratch in their kitchen. Their coffee is from Coffee4Kids, which donates $1 from every bag to an orphanage. Lapp also says they offer different drinks as well, such as hot chocolate, Italian sodas, lattes, mochas and more. The trailer used to be an ice cream truck, but has been retrofitted to have a nice, homey kitchen area.

Your first order should be: Lapp recommends her pumpkin bars, which includes a cinnamon pumpkin cake base with cream cheese frosting on top. Her cheesecake flavors change every week, and Lapp said those are worth trying. She also recommends her chocolate chip cookies, a favorite of many customers.

Fun fact: Most of the recipes for her desserts are her mother’s. When she was young, her family would mine for gold in Alaska, where her mom worked as a camp cook. “That’s where I got it from … baking with her in Alaska,” said Lapp. Lapp’s mother grew up in the Willamette Valley and got her baking skills from her own mother, which means many of the recipes have been passed down through the generations. Lapp uses her grandmother’s equipment in the truck, which she thinks would make her proud. Lapp grew up in a large family — she had 10 siblings. “I like that I get to pick and choose who I like, if you don’t like one sibling you can just go hang out with the other one,” she laughed.