Mississippi Heritage Bakery Baking the Old-Fashioned Way
If you close your eyes, and taste a Sugaree’s cake, you will be instantly swept back to a time where sugar was carefully browned in a cast iron skillet until it was just the right shade of golden brown needed for a deeply delicious caramel icing. Where hot butter glazes were poured with a lavish hand over thick layers of coconut cake to drench every slice with pure, moist flavor. Where icings were carefully, expertly, slowly cooked on a hot stovetop until they were silky smooth. That’s the way they always did it in the Deep South, that is the way Sugaree’s Bakery, a small batch heritage bakery in Mississippi, does it today. It’s not a fast way. And it is not an easy way. But it is a way that infuses layers and layers of rich, complex, and deeply satisfying flavor in every glorious bite.