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Cocoa coconut cupcakes are a specialty cupcake The Flour Shop Bakery o ers. Single specialty cupcakes are $4 each or $45 per dozen. (Photos by Samantha Douty/ Community Impact Newspaper)
The Flour Shop Bakery Business owner turns hobby into career C ara Vasquez has always loved baking, and it is what led her to open The Flour Shop Bakery BY SAMANTHA DOUTY
eating habits. Baking sweets allowed Vasquez to enjoy the kitchen. Part of the goal for Vasquez was to create a traditional bakery of sorts. She wanted a place where people could walk in and see cases lled with sweet treats of all shapes and sizes. She also wanted to o er variety, she said. The bakery o ers a number of treats, including pies, cupcakes, bars, brownies, cakes, cookies, creme brulee, cream pu s and eclairs. Though, Vasquez said she will bake just about anything. Inside The Flour Shop Bakery, the smell of cinnamon and sugar ll the room. Seating is available throughout the bakery with signs that say “love at rst bite,” and golden whisks hang on the walls. “I will never do anything else,” Vasquez said.
S’more Bars are among the o erings at The Flour Shop Bakery. DESSERT OFFERINGS The bakery o ers several desserts and treats, including those listed below. • Pies
in Flower Mound. “If it’s dessert, I’ll make it,” Vasquez said.
Vasquez opened The Flour Shop Bakery about 10 years ago in High- land Village before moving the shop to Flower Mound. Despite the move, she still has customers who walked through the doors that rst opening day, she said. “The community has been really great to us,” she said. “They are the reason we’re here.” Vasquez grew up baking with her mother when she was a kid, and it was her mother who recommended she attend culinary school, she said. Her love for baking, Vasquez believes, stems from her picky
• Cookies • Creme brulee • Tres leche • Cream pu s • Eclairs
• Cupcakes • Bars and brownies • Cakes
Cara Vasquez rst opened the bakery in Highland Village about 10 years ago.
The Flour ShopBakery 6100 Long Prairie Road, Ste. 200, Flower Mound 972-355-3600 www.the our.shop Hours: Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun.-Mon. closed
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