The Spread // Baker
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T H E BATCH M A K ER Cristina Rojas-Agurcia uses her longtime love of baking to create delicious desserts for her Charlotte customers. words SUNNY HUBLER
They say cooking is a love language, and if that’s true, we can’t help but think a baked good is the ultimate act of kitchen-made care. They’re sweet, decadent, and indulgent, and really never better than when made from scratch. Cristina Rojas, a self-taught baker with years of recipe creation and experimentation under her belt, decided to highlight her passions by opening her own inhome bakeshop in Charlotte in April 2017. “Most of my treats are things that I wanted to eat but didn’t see anyone else making, so I figured I just had to go for it myself,” Cristina explains.
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As someone who loved baking since her childhood, she knows the basic cake and cookie recipes by heart, so creating exceptional treats from those formulas is an exciting kind of chemistry. Think Oreo-stuffed brownies, pop-tarts, coffee cheesecakes, brown butter cookies, and three-layer key lime cakes, to name just a few of her menu items. Her Honduran background, the place where she was born and raised, is also incorporated into many a dish, from her churro cake to her frequent use of dulche de leche flavors.