Chef Rob Carraccetto founded Bar & Batter after moving from New York to Annapolis in 2021, drawing on family small-business roots and training in baking and pastry arts at the Culinary Institute of America. From its cottage bakery, the company creates spirit-inspired desserts for Annapolis customers and events, with offerings such as alcohol-infused cookies made through reduction and baking methods that test at 0.0% ABV. Every dessert can also be prepared without alcohol upon request.
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The Dessert Junkie BakeryFounded in 2021 in Bowie, Maryland, The Dessert Junkie Bakery creates design-forward American-style desserts and custom celebration cakes, with handcrafted sweets made from scratch. Founder Alexis Streets, a self-taught baker and dessert stylist, brings her background in baking and interior design to the bakery’s signature artistic displays, while the team also takes those desserts on the road through event catering and a mobile dessert truck. The bakery’s roots reach back to Streets’ 2009 launch of Basket Treats, which grew into dessert table artistry and broader event services.BOWIE, MD
Desserts by RitaSince Rita Curry began baking for Ocean City’s Garden Restaurant in 1977, Desserts by Rita has made custom cakes and signature desserts from its Bishopville bakery. Curry, who remains hands-on in the kitchen, created the original Lemon Lust and Rita’s Delight before opening her first shop in 1985; those creations remain central to the bakery’s local identity. The bakery has also been named “Best Desserts” multiple times in Metropolitan Magazine’s Best of the Eastern Shore contest.HAVRE DE GRACE, MD
Vaccaro's Italian Pastry ShopFounded in Baltimore in 1956 by Palermo-born Gioacchino “Mr. Jimmy” Vaccaro, Vaccaro’s Italian Pastry Shop makes Sicilian pastries and other Italian desserts using the Old World recipes he brought from Italy. Now led by his son Nick, the family business has grown from its original shop into a pastry operation with a production facility, cafés across Greater Baltimore, and nationwide shipping. Cannoli and rum cake remain its signature Baltimore favorites.BALTIMORE, MD
The Bearded BakerAfter six years of selling macarons at farmers’ markets across New York state, Scott Krevat opened The Bearded Baker in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill in 2021, where he makes handmade macarons and other baked treats. Krevat taught himself the pastry from scratch in 2015, drawing on the meticulous thinking of his chemistry studies at NYU, and still develops seasonal flavors alongside the bakery’s cookies, brownies and other sweets. The shop also prepares specialty treats for parties and events and ships its macarons nationwide.BROOKLYN, NY