Three Brothers Bakery

The Houston Chronicle tells the origin story: the team went to a baking convention in Louisiana more than a decade ago, visited nine bakeries there, and came home to write their own bead-covered cake. Houstonia dates the business to 1949. Filling choices run to cream cheese, strawberry cream cheese, raspberry cream cheese and pecan praline, with a plain cinnamon version alongside. Order the pecan praline by the slice in store first, then commit to a whole one.

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