Searching for the most effective Christmas muffins, cookies and desserts? These 8 locations in Mumbai supply all the things from ginger tartlets to jujubes.

The wave of festive cheer is quickly approaching and so are the scrumptious suggestions by Mumbai’s prime foodies. To gasoline your burning festive frenzy, we’ve got compiled an inventory of locations that make pleasant Christmas muffins and desserts which are ‘gorge-able’! Take your choose. 

1. Vienna Bakery

As soon as a hotspot of buns and bread, the setup in Mumbai’s Santacruz space quickly developed into one of many metropolis’s most beloved bakeries. However even amongst its array of baked items — puffs, Swiss rolls and patties — it’s the bakery’s plum cake that steals the present. You’ll want to place your order nicely prematurely as their Christmas muffins are fast-selling objects. When you’re awaiting your scrumptious fondant-topped candy course, don’t neglect to order a few of their Christmas sweets. We’ve heard the cult favourites are milk lotions and jujubes. 

2. Celebrations High-quality Confections

What do you get when pudding and cake come collectively? Effectively, a ‘Pud Cake’ in fact! Discover your candy spot within the mix of each these treats with Chef Mehernosh Khajotia’s wonderful recipe. As Chef Khajotia writes on his web page, “That is my very personal, signature creation. It’s moist with a crumb texture, with a number of fruits, nuts, spices and completely boozed up with rum. Soaked in rum’s heat, a symphony of style, Christmas whispers via each candy embrace. Custom and pleasure, a mix so divine, PudCake’s magic, in each chunk, will shine.”

3. Hearsch Bakery 

In a weblog put up in 2013, Chef Sanjeev Kapoor revealed that his festive plans are sometimes incomplete with out muffins from the legendary Bandra bakery. Mumbaikars have typically heard the story of how the outlet was began by a German baker J Hearsch and moved possession within the Nineteen Twenties on the time of the Nice Struggle in Germany. The bakery continues to amass a fan following with queues ready to attempt their fare of sandwiches, croissants, chocolate eclairs and extra. 

4. B Merwans 

For over 100 years, generations of the household have been delighting Mumbaikars with their mawa muffins and extra. The enterprise started with Mr Boman Merwan promoting baked items in 1914. Quickly their delectable merchandise discovered love and ‘B Merwans’ was born. Amongst their many scrumptious bakes, the mawa muffins and plum muffins proceed to enthral. 

The bakery is a favorite of celebrated Parsi chef Cyrus Todiwala who mentioned in an article to Stay Mint, “The B Merwan household bakes the most effective mawa muffins ever. The truth is, we’ve got three mini ones in our freezer proper now,” says Todiwala. 

5. Le15 Patisserie 

It was a deal with to spend time in Pooja’s kitchen. Her ardour for baking and the enterprise she’s created is a reminder of what’s attainable while you comply with your goals. Nice to see how she makes use of iPhone and Mac in her inventive course of. Greatest macaron I’ve ever had! https://t.co/pMcBxXJK4x pic.twitter.com/IZSpcihZow— Tim Cook dinner (@tim_cook) April 21, 2023

It’s no shock that the macarons at this Mumbai outlet spearheaded by Chef Pooja Dhingra are bites of heaven. However it isn’t simply the town’s folks who’re followers of her concoctions. Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner too appeared to be taken up with them. On his India Tour in April this 12 months, the American enterprise government visited Dhingra’s kitchen solely to be welcomed with a pile of French desserts. However his spotlight was the buttery macarons. 

As his X put up later learn, “It was a deal with to spend time in Pooja’s kitchen. Her ardour for baking and the enterprise she’s created is a reminder of what’s attainable while you comply with your goals. Nice to see how she makes use of the iPhone and Mac in her inventive course of. Greatest macaron I’ve ever had!” In case you’re seeking to get your arms on some Christmas delights, the bakery is an excellent place to take action. 

6. Mama Z’s

Zarine — the founding father of Mama Z’s whose baked goodies are all the trend — was seven when she noticed her maternal grandmother whip up a storm within the kitchen. Immediately, she makes an attempt to do the identical. “I stayed true to the old school type of abundance. Cooking for household and buddies brings a lot happiness that Mama Z’s was inevitable.” Whether or not you determine to go on a gastronomic journey with the chocolate loaf with strawberries or the mini Xmas cupcakes, you’re positive to be thrilled. 

As Shaan Khanna, co-founder of Spicy Sangria shared in an article in Condé Nast, “They (the carrot cake and Christmas hamper) are wonderful. I’d additionally recommend attempting her Christmas particular: Eton mess with yoghurt and berries with the right crunch. I additionally love the Brie topped with pecan, rosemary, and cranberries.”

7. American Categorical Bakery 

Since 1908 the Carvalho household in Mumbai has been making everybody’s Christmas an entire lot brighter with their desserts and muffins. Baking runs within the blood, because the household web site reads. Of their preliminary days the outlet launched imported cheeses and meats to their menu which they’d ship to American cruise ships. Thus the title. Although the bakery is all the time bustling, come Christmas the frenzy takes on an entire new avatar. Their muffins, pies, tarts, flan and pudding will add life to your Christmas feast. 

8. Toshin Patisserie 

Toshin Shetty, the culinary genius behind this patisserie, was gifted a chef coat on his tenth birthday. Such was his love for cooking that his fondest recollections of childhood contain the time spent at his father’s restaurant in Mumbai. An ardent lover of chocolate, Toshin has began the patisserie as a method of bringing his love for meals and enterprise collectively.

This Christmas in case you’re seeking to order muffins, handcrafted praline and extra on your meal Toshin’s has received you lined. However the actual hero of the menu is the crispy ginger tartlets which have the correct steadiness of spice and richness so as to add to your festive cheer. 

Edited by Padmashree Pande