What Makes Krembo Bakery Special?
Krembo is bringing the tastes of Jewish baking to the Bay Area. Krembo is the only Parve (non-dairy) Kosher bakery in Northern California. We are housed in the LCC (Lent Chabad Center) in San Mateo, CA. Besides being Kosher and non-dairy, we have developed our recipes to be the best tasting ever. Our pastry chef, Mary Coe, tested hundreds of recipes over ten years to curate a menu of delicious traditional jewish baked goods.
Another thing that makes Krembo unique is our butter. More specifically, our dairy-free butter. The proprietary blend of high quality ingredients makes our dairy-free butter taste just like conventional butter, and performs just as well when used for baking. We also draw upon Israeli culture and food tastes. Many of our recipes are from pastry chefs who are well-known in Israel. Visit our cafe and you will feel like you are in Israel.
Finally, a Kosher, non-dairy bakery in the Bay Area!
Our History
Krembo was developed over a period of 10 years by Fran Lent, Mary Coe and Esty Marcus. It started with Fran baking in her kitchen in Encino, California as a young girl and always enjoying eating desserts. She even entered into the Betty Crocker baking contest (did not win) but had a great time in the process.
She has worked in the food industry in several marketing positions before she started her own company, Fran’s Healthy Helpings - a company that made healthy frozen meals for kids.
As she evolved in her baking and spiritual Jewish life, her and husband created a Kosher home. Finally she decided to open up her own bakery which would provide kosher baked goods to the bay area. In this process, she enrolled in the San Francisco Baking Institute in the Bay Area. This 6 month course was truly transformational.
As Fran became close with her main instructor, Mary Coe, she asked Mary if she would like to help her on the journey of opening up a kosher bakery. Thankfully Mary said YES! Then Rebbizen Esty Marcus suggested to Fran to consider housing the bakery at the new Chabad center. This was an inspired idea and here we are today - one of the few bakeries in the bay area providing parve Kosher baked goods.
Meet Our Team
Fran Lent, Owner
Mary Coe, Pastry Chef
Muna Tovo, Chief Baker
Ana Ford, Assistant Baker & Customer Service
Negin Ehsanipour, Marketing & Web Consultant
We would also like to thank the following people for all their support!
Marilu Real, Jackie Hernandez, & Fernando Arriaga
Rabbi Yossi & Esty Marcus and Rabbi Yale & Rivky Spalter
Bobby, Bradley, Hannah, & Roselyn Lent
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