Carmen's Bakery & Coffee Shop

04/07/2023

In just a few short hours, we raised $200 for the Tavares Family! Thank you to everyone who donated.

Congratulations, Elizabeth Conde! We hope you enjoy your sweet bread.

04/07/2023

UPDATE: Congratulations to Elizabeth Conde! She is our winner. A big thank you to everyone who donated! In just a few hours we raised $200 for the Tavares Family.

It’s been a few years since we closed our doors, but Carmen’s home kitchen hasn’t stopped baking!

We know some of you have missed our sweet bread and we want to offer you A CHANCE to have one this Easter while helping the Tavares Family, an amazing local family impacted by cancer.

(You can read their story here: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/local/2022/11/10/fairhaven-wife-mom-fighting-cancer-with-help-of-community-businesses/69620232007/)

For a $10 donation, you will receive A CHANCE to win a Carmen’s classic - a round sweet bread with 2 eggs!

To donate, please Venmo MelaniePine. Winner must be local to New Bedford and sweet bread will be delivered Saturday, April 8th. Thank you & good luck!

03/07/2022

Our "Cooking with Carmen" YouTube channel has 599 subscribers. Who will be # 600?

We've covered sweet bread, malassadas, pop secos, and torresmos brancos on our channel. What should we cover next?

You can find us here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTkNrUJenrIBlQGn7KCIqUA/videos

Carmen owned Carmen's Bakery and Coffee Shop for nearly 40 years and retired in 2015. What started with a few friends asking for recipes that were of course ...

11/19/2020

Part II of How to Make Portuguese Sweet Bread is here!
If you try Carmen's recipe, tell us what you think. We'd love to hear from you. https://youtu.be/w596TVVPop8

You made the dough, now you're in for the long haul (the next 6 hours or so!) Are you ready? If you haven't watched Part I, start here: https://www.youtube.c...

11/18/2020

7 hours later and our first batch of sweet bread is out of the oven! Check back tomorrow for Part II of our video.

update: Our business is still closed. We are sharing our recipes on our YouTube channel. Sorry for any confusion!

11/18/2020

The video you have all been patiently waiting for - the Portuguese Sweet Bread video is here, just in time for the holidays!

09/08/2020

Torresmos brancos (fried pork belly) was one of our best-selling weekend specials. Enjoy it at home with just three ingredients: water, coarse sea salt and pork belly!

A slight change of plans with this week's video. We were initially going to record our sweet bread recipe, but when your husband comes home with 2 full sized...

09/08/2020

This is what happens when your kitchen gets taken over by two full pigs...🤦🏻‍♀️

We had to switch gears and make torresmos brancos (fried pork belly) today instead of our promised sweet bread.

Hoping we can tackle sweet bread next week! We will be sharing a video on this easy recipe in a bit.

09/06/2020

We are only two days away from our next video! Who’s ready to make Carmen’s sweet bread at home? Subscribe to our Cooking with Carmen channel on YouTube to never miss a video.

Carmen owned Carmen's Bakery and Coffee Shop for nearly 40 years and retired in 2015. What started with a few friends asking for recipes that were of course ...

09/03/2020

09/03/2020

We are FINALLY fulfilling our long time promise to share our recipes. Follow us on YouTube for our Cooking with Carmen series!

We currently cover pop secos, biscoitos, and malassadas! Subscribe to be notified on our upcoming videos. (Hint, hint: sweet bread is next!) 🍞👇

Carmen owned Carmen's Bakery and Coffee Shop for nearly 40 years and retired in 2015. What started with a few friends asking for recipes that were of course ...

09/02/2020

Found in the archives!

Carmen had a special impromptu field trip from the kids at Congdon School. We’re thinking this photo was taken in 1998, 1999?