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Key Ingredients

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A night of rain means cafe chairs, still wet and glistening, are stacked outside Scratch Baking on the Milford Green. But inside, the bakery’s butcher block tables are filling as a 9 a.m. lull gives way to a morning rush (more…)

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Sweet Dream

Chocolates at Chip in a Bottle

Darrell Nurse opened his Westville confectionary, Chip in a Bottle, last November, right down the street from a dentist’s office. Over the course of the last few months, more and more dental employees have been (more…)

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The Bready Bunch

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Bread and chocolate—what more could you need? Bread & Chocolate, a modest storefront on Whitney Avenue in Hamden, celebrates the combination of these two essential food groups, as well as the union of another duo (more…)

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Cookie Science

Moon Rocks cookies

Five out of five grandkids agree: grandmothers make the best cookies. But what if Grandma wanted to shoot a little higher than family desserts and school bake sales?  (more…)

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How Sweet It Is

Cupcakes at Sugar Bakery

When you’re in the food business and the Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte, the mother/daughter team behind Sugar Bakery in East Haven, received a call out of the (more…)

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Rise and Shine

Kiara Matos and Andrea Corazzini

Outfitted with immaculate hardwood floors, butcher-block tables and lithe metal chairs, G Café Bakery in the center of Branford is about as idyllic as the main street it faces. Playful, modern handmade ceramics by co-owner Kiara Matos (more…)

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Sweet Spot

A custom cake at Sweet Mary's

Missy Antonelli is an artist, but she doesn’t work in oils or watercolors or clay, and you won’t see her creations hanging in galleries or museums. Her tools are whisks and baking sheets and pastry knives. Her materials are batters and frostings and fondants. And her studio/showroom is Sweet Mary’s, the bakery she owns in […]

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How Sweet It Is

Brenda DePonte and Carol Vollono of Sugar Bakery

When you’re in the food business and Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, the mother/daughter team Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte at Sugar Bakery in East Haven received a call out of the blue with an invitation to try out for an episode of Cupcake Wars. “We never sent them anything,” Carol says. […]

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