DINING FEATURE
BY KAITLYNN HUTCHINS
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Chocolate eclairs ($5.50) are among the treats o ered at La Creme Bakery Cafe.
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La Creme Bakery aims to serve high- quality products at a ordable prices.
Chocolate ganache cake ($4.99) at La Creme Bakery Cafe is one of the bakery’s most popular items.
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La Creme Bakery Cafe Local bakery serves fresh treats in Frisco N estled inside a strip mall on Coit Road is La Creme Bakery Cafe, a small shop serving handmade pastries, breads, cakes and other treats. Executive Chef Azhagarasi Azha- giri and owner Senthil Palani opened
[everything is] already made. For example, when they sell croissants, it’s not fresh. They make them somewhere else; they’re frozen.” While operating their rst store, the couple hired underprivileged women in India, who were trained by Azhagiri. The store in India is still open and is run by local women. Even though the two La Creme loca- tions are on two di erent continents, the goal to provide customers with fresh, handmade food made from pure ingredients remains the same. “Our mission is ... we want to give better quality bakery products at an a ordable price,” Palani said. “That’s what we do here. All our products are mid-range.” In addition to serving fresh,
preservative-free baked goods, Azha- giri said she tries to avoid ingredients like nuts, gelatin and alcohol that can prevent people of di erent cultures or people with allergies from eating her products. While the kitchen is not completely gluten-free, Azhagiri said she tries to provide a gluten friendly environment. “We try to run a bakery and [provide] a product for everyone, vegetarians, vegans and di er- ent kinds of religious people,” Azhagiri said. Among the bakery’s most popular options are banana bread, croissants and chocolate ganache cake. The bakery also o ers custom cakes for birthdays, weddings and other special occasions.
La Creme Bakery Cafe 6549 Coit Road, Ste. 118, Frisco 469-793-1462 www.lacremebakerycafe.com Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Executive Chef Azhagarasi Azhagiri and owner Senthil Palani have been in the bakery business since 2013.
the bakery in June 2022. They’ve been serving the Frisco community for a little over a year, but they aren’t bakery rookies. Inspired by their desire for fresh food, the couple opened La Creme Bakery Cafe in India in 2013 before moving to the U.S. “We were looking for good quality pastries and cake,” Palani said. “We looked around and we couldn’t get quality ones. Wherever we [went], like regular supermarkets,
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