Pure Baking Indulgence. Meet The Artisan Bakers Company...

Baking emerged as one of the culinary trends during the quarantine experience with a few businesses taking it to a whole new level of indulgence. The Artisan Bakers Company is one of these gems with their offerings of fresh-baked viennoiserie, artisan breads, pastries and cakes. Classic, traditional, indulgent and meticulously handcrafted, it's baking elevated. Want to see more from the ovens of The Artisan Bakers Company? 

For Charlene Love Nepuscua, baking was more than just a weekend thing. Trained in the culinary arts specifically traditional baking, Charlene Love Nepuscua pursued her passion on a commercial scale with small batches of her specialty laminated dough offerings. In collaboration with Barbara Ann Reyes-Javelosa of Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen, the concept for a high-end bakery was born. A long-time pioneer in premium and sumptuous hotel quality Japanese cuisine using the freshest ingredients flown in directly from Japan,  Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen raises the bar for home-based food businesses with her lavish array of authentic Japanese dishes (for more on Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen, see my posts, Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen Raises the Bar for Home-Based Food Businesses with Restaurant Quality Dishes and Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen Raises the Bar for Home-Based Food Businesses. Again. on the quality of her Japanese inspired offerings, ECQ Eats: Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen Elevates the Bento Experience on their creative new dishes, A Tasty Peek at the New Premium Japanese Offerings by Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen on her growing menu and Turning Japanese with Bambi's Gourmet Kitchen...). 

And when Barbara Ann Reyes-Javelosa and Charlene Love Nepuscua get together and join forces, you just know something lavishly indulgent is bound to happen. Call it timing or serendipity, The Artisan Bakers Company was born in 2019 with its initial offerings of premium quality viennoiserie and traditional French-style bread.

Both women have an uncompromising attitude and philosophy when it comes to the quality and freshness of their ingredients and the meticulous and often tedious preparation behind each specialty offering from their oven and kitchen. The result is delicately crisp, light and flaky layered laminated dough delivering intense buttery notes. Take their classic Croissants...

Much larger than the usual options currently available in the metro, the Croissants by The Artisan Bakers Company is also noticeably lighter despite its size. A slice of the Croissant reveals the delicate layering of the buttery and flaky dough delivering a delectable crispness followed by the deep and rich notes of butter. And no, you don't even need to add a dab of butter to the Croissants of The Artisan Bakers Company.

They say the secret to French cuisine is butter and more butter. The same is true with the laminated baked products of The Artisan Bakers Company. Made with premium imported butter, and lots of it, each bite becomes a decadent experience that leads to another and bigger bite. The Pain au Chocolate is as light and flaky as the Croissant, filled with premium Van Houten chocolate for that added layer of decadent richness. Charlene Love Nepuscua also offers an inventive spin on the traditional Pain au Chocolate using the local ChocNut as a variant, the Pan Chocnut, pairing well with the buttery laminated dough. You'll find both tradition and innovation woven in a seamless blend at The Artisan Bakers Company with unique variants like this.

The intricate Cinnamon Twist by The Artisan Bakers Company is an equally indulgent option with the pronounced hint of spices and cinnamon infused to the butter laminated dough for that distinct flavor with that delicate light and flaky crispness. For a more savory variant, the British Sausage packs serious flavors with a meaty sausage wrapped in the layered laminated dough. The light crunch of the flaky dough followed by the juicy snap of the sausage is a combo that's just hard to beat. Pair it with coffee or an ice-cold beer, your call.

Satisfy your cookie cravings with the moist and chunky creation from The Artisan Bakers Company, the large Cranberry Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie. One look tempts the eyes...

...and a bite satisfies the palate with the chunky blend of goodness from the sweet and tart cranberries, decadent chocolate chips and premium walnuts. The size and weight of the cookies are an indication of the love mixed in with each cookie. One more cookie? Go ahead...

The Orange Poppy Seed Cashew Nut Bars are another indulgent creation from the playbook of The Artisan Bakers Company with soft, moist and dense bars delivering the sharp citrus notes of orange with the poppy seeds and cashews adding layers of flavor and textural contrasts.  

But The Artisan Bakers Company has more tricks in the bag with the aptly named Love in a Jar...

...filled with lavish layers of dense and fudgy chocolate cake, silky smooth 70% dark chocolate cremeux, caramel pecan, homemade salted caramel and whipped cream.

One spoonful leads to another as you dig deeper into the jar for another luscious lip-smacking bite. Decadent and indulgent, this is one jar you'll like to have in your ref for those moments when you need a little love. A whole jar of it.  

Move over, food for the gods and make way for the goddess. The Food for the Goddess is The Artisan Bakers Company's spin on another classic made with brown butter, dried mangoes, chocolate chips and walnuts. Each bite brings a blend of contrasting flavors, from the tart sweetness of the dried mangoes to the chocolate chips and walnuts finished with the deep notes of brown butter. It just doesn't get better than this. From traditional croissants and viennoiserie to pastries, cookies and cakes, The Artisan Bakers Company has something just for you fresh off the oven. 

We've seen the continuous rise of innovative food businesses during the quarantine experience, and The Artisan Bakers Company is one of them. And soon, you'll be hearing a whole lot more from The Artisan Bakers Company. Just leave it to Charlene Love Nepuscua and Barbara Ann Reyes-Javelosa to elevate and transform your cravings for fresh-baked treats hot off the oven...