Porto’s Bakery and Cafe is coming home. To your home, that is.
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, Porto’s will launch its new Bake at Home service, which will ship select pastries nationwide. The service, which can be found online at portosbakery.com, includes information on products, purchasing and shipping, as well as how to bake your order. The items, which are stored on dry ice, are shipped to you in about two days.
There are five Porto’s treats currently available: meat pies, Refugio guava and cheese pastries, cheese rolls and guava strudel in boxes of 12 and dulce de leche besitos in boxes of 15. Each box costs $16.99 plus shipping and a minimum of two boxes (mix or match) per order is required.
“Because they are frozen upon delivery, you can either bake them right out of the box or you can place the pastries in the freezer for another time,” Porto’s director of e-commerce Luis Lluis said. “The baking process is pretty simple. It’s very similar to the chocolate chip cookies you get from the market. The only additional step we request is two pans, you stack one pan upon another to protect the pastries from burning on the bottom.”
The items bake in about 30 minutes depending on the oven, Lluis said. All products are recommended to be baked and eaten within 30 days.
According to Porto’s corporate marketing manager Jennifer Wells, the company’s head chef recommends checking the pastries frequently during the last 10-15 minutes of baking.
“It’s really simple. It’s really just putting it on the pan and letting it go and then all of a sudden you have a Porto’s in your own kitchen,” Wells said.
Porto’s is currently working on a version of its popular potato ball to add to the Bake at Home line.
Porto’s started with Rosa Porto selling cakes out of her home in Cuba back in the 1960s, and now has locations in Burbank, Buena Park, Downey and Glendale.
