Pumpkin bread at Stein’s Bakery. Photo by Mark Davis
Pumpkin tastes and treats
A decade ago, owner Owedia Alvarado and her husband took over Stein’s Bakery after working there since 1989. The recipes she uses are the same as the founders used in 1863. “We stay pretty traditional to what historically worked,” Alvarado says. Though the bakery is famous for its cheese pockets, petit fours, and cinnamon and cream cheese coffee cakes, around this time of the year they bake their pumpkin bread. The spiced bread looks like a pound cake and comes topped with a cream cheese frosting, if that’s your thing. It’s available through the end of Thanksgiving. “I love what I do,” Alvarado says. “I try to make people happy.”
Stein’s Bakery
12829 Preston Road, Suite 417 . 972.385.9911 . steinsbakery.net
Three more places for pumpkin
1 Teh Guk Dang
The Manju Cookies are filled with sweet pumpkin paste and resemble cupcake tops sans the icing. Owners also carry a type of pumpkin bread different from what most might be used to – it’s their regular thin bread filled with pumpkin paste. Both items are available throughout the year.
2546 Royal Lane . 972.243.4478
2 Society Bakery
Indulge in the marshmallow pumpkin panna cotta, a dish described as pumpkin mousse meets marshmallow panna cotta meets graham cracker crumbs. You can also try pumpkin and pumpkin-chocolate-chip whoopie pies, or pre-order traditional pumpkin cakes and cupcakes.
7777 Forest Lane, Suite A066 . 972.566.7558 . societybakery.com
3 Gooey’s Treats
Try out their pumpkin yogurt, or vanilla and pumpkin yogurt swirl, called “pumpkin cream pie.” With a mere nine calories per ounce, this low-cal goodness lasts only through November.
11700 Preston Road, Suite 670 . 214.691.9319
