I had the original lady from Maria's bakery do my sweet 15th birthday cake, and let me tell all of u people looking for a bakery, this one is #1. I would love the original lady that did my sweet 15 cake to do my wedding cake, so maybe hopefully maria santamaria will see this and write back to me at chriscarolina@hotmail.com. Don't get me wrong, the current lady that does the cakes is very good too, she did my little sister's sweet 15 cake, but there is no one better in my book than the original. I highly recommend this cake bakery, you will thank me, trust me!

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I've been driving to work lately along Eglinton from the city centre to the west. I know the area pretty well, but I've just noticed this little bakery just west of Dufferin. The sign advertised Mexican foods including pupusas and tamales. I stopped in last Wednesday on the way home to check it out. There appeared to be very little in the way of freshly baked goods, but I asked the woman about the tamales and pupusas. She told me that she only has fresh tamales beginning at about 4:00 pm on Fridays, but she had some fresh pupusas. I took out a pupusa--it was delicious, hot, flavourful. Difficult to eat on the drive home, but I perservered because it was so good.

On Friday, I stopped again for the tamales and was in luck. There was a plastic tub at the front which she opened and removed 3 steaming tamales wrapped in foil. They were $1.65 each (she told me that it wasn't the usual woman who made these--that they were smaller than usual, so she charged me less than the normal $2.50).
Inside the foil were delicious hot corn tamales wrapped in banana leaves, and containing chicken and seasonings. I've had tamales at some little Mexican grocery stores in NYC, and these were as good. They're not at all spicy, but quite flavourful.
I believe that the woman who served me was from El Salvador, not Mexico, but I don't know about the tamale maker.

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I loved this Bakery! I say loved because i no longer go there. My grandmother owned this bakery. She was the lady you met from El Salvador. Her and her husband (my grandfather) retired a while ago and sold the bakery. The food is no longer the same there unfortunately. My grandmother made the most wonderful pastries. I sometimes ask her why she sold it, but she always tells me that she's too old for it now. I love the Bakery because it has the same name as me! I would very often go there and watch her bake and cook the food. Every year on my and my siblings birthdays she would make marvelous cakes. She was so good at decorating, its amazing! For my sisters Sweet 15, my grandmother made the largest cake ive ever seen. It had around 8 cakes in a tower like shape, with a fountain under it, and there were dolls on each cakes representing the 14 girls in the birthday party (kinda like bridesmaids).It looked so beautiful. i cant wait till my sweet 15!

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