Crixa Cakes

Specialties

Crixa Cakes specializes in high quality old world Hungarian, Russian, Central European, and American desserts. At Crixa Cakes Bakery and Café, we create and offer these cakes, pies and pastries scratch-​baked on-​site, as well as fine coffees and loose-​leaf teas.

Scratch-​baked means our cakes are made from flour, sugar, butter, oil, chocolate, or whatever basic ingredients they require — not from a package cake mix. It also means that we make all of our own doughs, like puff pastry, danish, strudel and pie doughs, rather than purchasing them ready-​made.

Crixa’s use of pure ingredients and slower hand-​made processes isn’t new or trendy — it’s the way our better tasting baked goods have traditionally been produced. Crixa uses organic ingredients whenever they meet our quality standards and are not price-​prohibitive.

History

Established in 1998.

Our influences are long family histories of baking and cooking in the Hungarian and Russian traditions. We are also inspired by the classic cafes and bakeries of Central Europe.

Initially, we provided cakes, pastries, pies and cookies wholesale to East Bay restaurants, cafes, and caterers from our small commercial kitchen in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California.

In 2000, we moved to our present location in Berkeley, California and opened our bakery and café. We added retail bakery, coffee and tea products.

As we look ahead, we are excited about the future of Crixa Cakes. We are planning for continued growth, quality products, and satisfied customers. We also keep looking back, to good simple ingredients, to when cafes were social institutions, and to the recipes that ignited the taste-​buds of our families and yours.

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