Since Italian pastry chef Clement Maggia founded it in 1928, Clement’s Pastry Shop has grown from a Washington, D.C., neighborhood shop into a Hyattsville bakery manufacturing pastries and desserts for the wholesale food industry. Still family-owned across five generations, the company serves customers throughout the Mid-Atlantic while also developing private-label desserts for national partners. Its menu spans more than 200 products, and the bakery is annually certified through the Safe Quality Food program.
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Vaccaro's DessertsSince 1906, Vaccaro’s Desserts has made Italian pastries in the Washington, D.C., tradition, with its cannoli at the center of the family business. Now in its fourth generation, the company still uses John Vaccaro’s exact recipe and hand-rolls its shells, while producing and packaging everything in-house for foodservice customers and home orders. Vaccaro’s describes itself as the oldest in-house cannoli maker in the USA.SILVER SPRING, 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
Ferrara Bakery & CafeSince 1892, Ferrara Bakery & Cafe has made traditional Italian pastries and desserts at its family-owned pasticceria and espresso bar in New York City’s Little Italy. Now in its fifth generation, the bakery is known for fresh, hand-crafted specialties such as cannoli, sfogliatella and torrone, with recipes and techniques carried through the Lepore family. Ferrara also supplies wholesale orders, custom cakes and nationwide dessert shipments from its historic Grand Street bakery.NEW YORK, NY
Pâtisserie PouponSince 1986, Pâtisserie Poupon has been making traditional French pastries in-house, from its Washington, D.C., and Baltimore shops. Its pastry chefs bake fresh daily, with the Signature Fraisier Cake standing out among the pâtisserie’s longstanding specialties.BALTIMORE, MD