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Creative Cookies
Houston retail bakery Three Brothers Bakery is encouraging

easy to work with and make everything sweet, so you really

customers to create their own pairings of sweet treats and iced

cannot go wrong. We are a Kosher bakery, so we frequently

coffees. With an array of cookies, cakes, and cupcakes, among

have to ﬁgure out how to convert ingredients or products that

other favorite items and coffee ﬂavors to choose from, includ-

might require dairy into something non-dairy. For example, to

ing house made syrups like white chocolate mascarpone, salted

transform a non-Kosher ingredient, like gelatin, into a Kosher

caramel or Saigon cinnamon, the choices are limitless.

ingredient, we use instant starch or cooking starch to gain
some of the effects, and we use Earth Balance for our butter."

The combinations can be classics, such as a chocolate chip
cookie with a vanilla iced coffee, or a black and white cookie

Three Brothers is witnessing more customers wanting Kosher

with an iced mocha. They can also be inventive: a green dino-

because it is thought to be of a higher quality, "so we are able to

saur sugar cookie with an almond iced coffee, or a signature

easily take advantage of that trend and deliver those high-quality

gingerbread man with a salted caramel iced coffee. With the

products you just can't ﬁnd in a supermarket or grocery store."

bakery's regular and sugar-free options for both desserts and
beverages, there's a refreshing summer pairing for everyone.

Quirky Sweet Treats
In other parts of the country like Berkeley, California, Stateside

As a popular Houston staple for several generations, Three

Treats, a locally owned nostalgic bakery company, is celebrating

Brothers Bakery is excited for Houstonians to try the tasty ways

the launch of its Kickstarter campaign by bringing the ice cream

to take on the heat and create their own memory when making

taco to the San Francisco Bay Area. Stateside Treats is the syn-

their pairing. The bakery's sweet treat and iced drink combos

thesis of two tasty local businesses - Cupkates Food Truck and

are the perfect relief from the scorching Houston temperatures.

Stateside Bakery Shop - to create one company crafting delicious preservative-free cupcakes and nostalgic treats.

As a ﬁfth generation baker, Bobby Jucker of Three Brothers
Bakery enjoys making the products his family has made for

Angel Cruzado and Erica Land are the co-founders of Stateside

generations - the challahs, ryes, bobkas, struedel, taiglach,

Treats. To start this business, Angel took his vision to Craig-

onion pockets, cheese pockets, matzo and more. "I feel a strong

slist, where he was seeking a consultant pastry chef. Dreams

connection to my family and the stories that go along with our

collided when Erica responded to his post and resigned her

products and recipes. One year I didn't make taiglach for Rosh

employment and 401K. The two realized they shared a passion

Hashana (a Jewish holiday) because admittedly, it's a pain to

for nostalgic treats and decided to join forces: Angel with his

make. That same year my wife was diagnosed with breast can-

savvy business sense, and Erica with her years of experience in

cer on Rosh Hashana, so I make it every year now. The tradition

the culinary scene and bean-to-bar chocolate world.

is important."
For over a year, they have been delighting the San Francisco
His favorite ingredients are chocolate and custard because "I

Bay area with nostalgic treats. To thank the community for its

like to eat chocolate and custard. These two ingredients are

contributions, the Kickstarter campaign will feature various

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