Fresh baked goods are both delicious and aesthetically pleasing, unlike grisly gingerbread re-creations of Civil War battles. Have your cake and see it too with today's Groupon to Rico Bakery & Café. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get $20 worth of carryout bakery fare.

• For $17, you get a carryout party package for 25 people (a $35.99 value) that includes:

  • A cuban quarter-sheet cake filled with pineapple filling or vanilla-pudding filling
  • 25 ham pastelitos
  • 25 meat pastelitos
  • 25 deviled-ham mini sandwiches
  • 25 ham croquettes

The bakery buffs at Rico Bakery & Café have crafted an assortment of authentic baked goods and savory finger foods for Little Havana denizens for more than 25 years. Patrons follow the sweet early-morning smell of freshly baked cakes ($6–$18) and breads ($0.50–$3.50) to the café’s doors that open every day at 6 a.m. A coffee to go ($0.85–$3) complements hand-decorated cuban or european desserts ($1–$2). Customers can savor cheese ($0.79), coconut ($0.79), or chorizo ($0.79) pastelitos made with premium flour and other ingredients for a taste more authentic than Jefferson’s first draft of the Constitution, written in homemade chocolate chips. Sweet-tooth shunners can tote home fresh sandwiches ($2–$4.50) or a variety of finger foods, such as freshly fried croquettes ($0.65), crab claws ($1), or chicken empanadas ($1.85).

Alternatively, hosts or hostesses can pick up Rico's party package, which feeds 25 people with meaty mouthfuls of pastelitos, mini deviled-ham sandwiches, and ham croquettes. The package also includes a cuban quarter-sheet cake filled with pineapple filling or vanilla pudding, ideal for celebrating a quinceañera or baby's first motorcycle jump.