Argentinean and Mexican sweets at La Favorita Bakery

Brillantes de Crema

Once specializing in Argentinean styled bread, La Favorita Bakery in Lynwood now serves mostly pan dulce and other Mexican breads after a switch in owners. However, a glass cabinet at the edge of the red-tiled bakery still holds a few Argentinean loaves.

Photos were not allowed inside the bakery

Brillantes de crema, as baked at La Favorita Bakery, are peculiar sticks of bread, coated in a light glaze with patches of coconut. Like Mexican sweet bread, this Argentinean bread is rather sweet with visible sugar on top. Yet it is layered and flaky, like a sticky croissant.

Despite the look of its soft inside, brillantes de cream take quite a grind to get past their initial toughness.

Unforutnately, this is as much information on La Favorita Bakery I can give. While speaking with the woman at the registar, my father became outraged by a number of things:

• The woman's snark.
• The shift in ownership in the bakery.
• The price of the Mexican bread, which he thought was inflated.

Ultimatly, he stormed off I purchased some sweet bread, insulting the woman and the bakery the entire drive home. "Your courtesy sells more than anything else," he explained, trying to justify his rage for the place.

He has vowed to never return there, and I suspect that neither of us are welcome.