Photo by Taylor Moran

All the colorful pastries you’ll find at local Latin groceries

Jennifer Tormo Alvarez

January 24, 2019

At local Latin markets, customers come for those hard-to-find, specialty ingredients: Mexican seasonings and sodas, a large range of dried chiles, prickly pears, giant banana leaves. Over in the markets’ taquerias, diners devour flavor-packed carnitas tacos, flautas and stews.

But in the bakery aisles, the colorful choices become almost overwhelming with floor-to-ceiling glass cases stocked with breads, doughnuts and cookies.

At Baton Rouge Latin markets like Ideal Market and La Morenita, you’ll find a variety of jumbo smiling galleta cookies, polvorones shortbread cookies and quesadilla pound cakes. Read the full story on Latin pastries from 225‘s January issue.

By Jennifer Tormo Alvarez

Jennifer Tormo Alvarez was the editor of “225” for nearly 11 years, leading the magazine through two print and digital redesigns, three anniversary years, a flood and the pandemic. She is obsessed with restaurant interiors, sparkling water, Scorpio astrology memes and, admittedly, the word “obsessed.” She is willing to travel to see indie bands in concert, but even better if they play a show at Chelsea’s Live.