For eight years, Katherine Alvarez ran her cupcake and specialty cake enterprise, Kitty’s Kakery, from her house kitchen. Now she has a storefront all her personal to promote her fan-favorite recipes.
The Killeen retailer opened Oct. 26, 2021, and held its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 26 with the Better Killeen Chamber of Commerce.
“It’s undoubtedly difficult transitioning from the house to a storefront,” Alvarez stated. “Its been good, although it has been a problem to steadiness each day manufacturing in addition to persevering with our customized cake designs that our clients know us for.”
Alvarez has been working as a baker for 14 years. Because the bakery is an area mother and pop store, every thing —from the icing to the batter— is created from scratch and small-batch baked for peek freshness.
The store additionally has gluten-free and vegan choices for patrons to select from.
“Lots of my recipes had been developed earlier than I grew to become vegan, and as soon as I began that way of life, I noticed that as a chance to remodel and adapt my recipes so they’d be appropriate for somebody who has a dairy or gluten allergy.” Alvarez stated. “I simply took my common recipes and performed round with them. The aim was to create one thing that was vegan or gluten free that tasted simply nearly as good as the actual factor.”
Kitty’s Kakery presently has a ranking of 5 out of 5 stars on its Fb web page and 4.9 out of 5 stars on Goggle critiques.
“Its been actually rewarding and we’ve got gotten quite a lot of constructive suggestions,” she stated. “I assume individuals are actually excited that there’s a bakery on this facet of city now, as a result of there weren’t many earlier than the place we’re.”
“I simply wish to encourage individuals to return out and check out our stuff. Now we have quite a lot of completely different flavors of cupcake, cookies, brownies, cheesecakes by the slice, customized desserts and extra.”
Kitty’s Kakery is positioned within the 440 Plaza, 858 S. Fort Hood St.
