7 Best Women Bakers, Patissiers And Chocolatiers In Ahmedabad
Whether it is the pastries, chocolates, designer cakes or fancy breads, women are whipping them up all!
05 Jun, 2018 by Sonal Kellogg
Women bakers, patissiers and chocolatiers rock the town! Everyone loves cakes, pastries and chocolates, and almost always we celebrate birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and any triumphs in our lives with a beautiful cake. More and more people are moving towards cakes, pastries, fancy breads and chocolates, now more than ever before.
Traditionally, bakers and chocolatiers have been men in an industry, as it is dominated by men, but, women are storming this bastion as they have done in many other spheres. Women in Gujarat have always had a great head for business and when it comes to treading the unbeaten path they love to take the lead. So, when it comes to baking and making chocolates they are making a mark in Ahmedabad.
We give you the top patissiers and chocolatiers who have started their own businesses and made the city a little sweeter.
List of 7 women patissiers and chocolatiers who are making it happen in Ahmedabad
This is a café and bakery run by 2 sisters 'Reena Kakkar', who is a chef, and 'Ekta Kakkar'.
Tropical Fruit & Chocolate Pie
Pasta Salad
Samosas
They make awesome and innovative pastries, pies, cakes and café food like Sandwiches, kinds of Pasta, Samosas, Savoury Pies etc. Located on Drive-in Road, this place has a small seating area which is cosy and the food is very good. They make awesome pies.
Price for 2: INR 500
Macarons
Located off University Road in Navrangpura, this small patisserie is best known for its French Macarons. It also makes Croissants, Breads, Pastries and Chocolates. Check out their small jars of jams and preserves.
Chef Suvritti Singh
This bakery and patisserie is run by 'Suvritti Singh' who got trained and worked in France to learn how to make perfect macarons and pastries.
Price for 2: INR 600
Located in Vastrapur, on that road which houses a few other patisseries also, Cocoa Drama is started by 'Khushali Solanki' who started her dream project after getting the necessary training for it. She also invited a French pastry chef to come to Ahmedabad to teach her staff to make perfect pastries and cakes.
Cupcakes
Chocolates
Orange, Chocolate & Walnut Loaf
Cocoa Drama makes great cupcakes, tea cakes and also chocolates.
Price for 2: INR 550
Located on Drive-in Road in Vastrapur, Vanilla The Cake Shop has been started by a woman baker 'Manali Lodha' and she owns the bakery along with her mother-in-law 'Shakuntala Lodha'. They make lovely cakes, cupcakes, pastries and biscuits. It is located on the road where there are a couple of more bakeries and patisseries, so, it is a super location to get your sugar fix after a great meal.
Cake
They also make chocolates, cheesecakes, breads and pastries.
Price for 2: INR 500
Open just a month ago by a 'Riddhi Patel' who got trained at Le Cordon Bleu School, this is a bakery which has a lot of savoury items and many different types of bread from Sourdough Bread to Focaccia Bread to Pesto Bread.
Pesto Bread
Brookies
Wholewheat And Bran Bread
Croissant
Truffle Focaccia
You can get puffs, stuffed loaves and croissants both sweet and savoury. The owner believes in keeping it healthy, so, she uses olive oil in all her breads and she prefers to make whole wheat bread.
Price for 2: INR 600
This café and bakery is run by 'Urja Patel' and her husband 'Mihir Patel' who is the chef. However, you will see Urja Patel at the counter in the café at most times in Theokaphe.
Cake
Urja Patel is a food biotechnologist and their café serves awesome vegetarian food also. Definitely worth-a-visit.
Price for 2: INR 700
This bakery and patisserie is run by a mother-daughter duo, 'Aakangsha Agrawal' and her mother 'Lavina Agrawal'. Located in Vastrapur, it is on that street where there are a couple of other bakeries also on the same street.
Death By Chocolate
Blueberry Cheesecake
It makes cakes and pastries with low sugar in it and they offer a lot of low-calorie options.
Price for 2: INR 500
Written By
A published author working on her second book, Sonal worked for many years as a journalist in The Indian Express, The Asian Age and DNA Newspaper where she regularly reviewed restaurants and wrote about food. She worked in Nairobi as a general manager of a group of restaurants in another era. She loves experimenting with food but is also known for her Biryanis and Kababs and even her baking skills. She likes travelling to little known places and if she finds quaint eateries it just makes the trip more fun. Currently based in Ahmedabad, she is happy with the growing awareness of gourmet food in the city.
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