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El

PUEBLO
BAKERY

El Pueblo Bakery started the business with a strong

With the convenience customer in mind, the bakery

determination to produce authentic Hispanic cakes,

also offers mil hojas cakes in slices, in addition to other

breads and pastries that local customers would enjoy

sweet treats like cream-ﬁlled cupcakes, cream horns,

for the premium quality and the consistent value. The

two-layer chocolate bar cakes and strawberry rings

bakeries are open seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 10

(fresh pastries ﬁlled with whipped cream and fresh

p.m. Their bakers work around the clock.

strawberry slices). On the savory side, the bakery offers
lunch to-go options like jalapeño and cheese-ﬁlled

Concepcion Flores runs the bakery business with her

bolillos.

husband, Santiago, and her brother, Alfredo Camarillo.
The family has always been involved in bakeries since

Raisins are used as a signature ingredient in a variety

they were ﬁrst growing up in Tehuacán, which is the

of breads and pound cakes. One unique item at the

second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla.

bakery, which they refer to as "fantasmas," are made by
starting with mantecada dough ﬁlled with sugar and

Tres leches cakes are among the bakery's signature

cream on the inside and one raisin. Raisin-ﬁlled breads

products, and these cakes are available in regular, choc-

include their pan de ﬁesta.

olate, piña colada, strawberry or mocha ﬂavors. They
offer multiple sizes of options, including quarter-sheet,

To keep pace with the increasingly popularity of

half-sheet and full sheet cakes. As another option, the

smaller desserts, Panadería Flores introduced cake

bakery has two-layer round tres leches cakes, which

pops and caramel apples, which are available season-

are packaged in cake tins that prevent the cakes from

ally. Throughout the month of October, leading up to

leaking out from the bottom. At El Pueblo Bakery, their

Día de los Muertos, the bakery offers traditional pan

tres leches cakes are made in the traditional manner

de muerto in two sizes: either topped with colored

of soaking the cake layers in a mixture of fresh milk,

sugar or sesame seeds. In January, they also make the

evaporated milk and condensed milk.

traditional rosca de reyes. "We will sell more than 2,000
roscas in one week," Flores says of this popular bread

Other popular products sold at the bakery include ﬂan,

for the traditional holiday of Día de los Reyes (Jan. 6), a

chocoﬂan, and gelatin desserts topped with fresh fruits

popular celebration in Hispanic culture.

like strawberries, kiwifruit and peaches. "We started
adding products as we got more ideas," Concepcion

Wedding and quinceañera cakes are offered throughout

Flores says. For example, they recently started offering

the year, but are most popular from April to September.

assorted ﬂavors of gelatin cups in convenient pack-

Four-layer cakes are most popular for weddings, and

aging for customers on the go. "The little ones are very

even larger tiered cakes are among the favorites of

popular," she says. "They sell pretty fast."

customers who are celebrating quinceañeras.

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