Other people's kitchens: Krin's Bakery

When I stepped into Krin’s bakery kitchen, I immediately thought of the Keebler elf commercials that made me drool as a seven years old. I’ll explain. Those commercials imagined a world where grocery store cookies are made by charming creatures in hollow forest trees, who lovingly dunk each one in chocolate before sending them to the neighborhood Walmart. Of course, those Fudge Stripe cookies are made by factories in towns like Cincinatti, Ohio, and if anyone touches them at all, you can bet it’s a full grown shift worker.

Krin’s deliciously almondy, salty, chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons are for sale in stores all over this area. While she is known to many, I bet the average customer hasn’t seen her kitchen, in a charming farmhouse at the foot of the Green Mountains. It is every bit as magical as the fictional elf tree. When I stepped inside and got a whiff of the warm, chocolaty air, I thought ,“Really? C’mon.”. Four friendly, lovely women stood at a counter in the spacious kitchen. Irish tunes played softly while they took one macaroon after another, and, well... lovingly dunked them in chocolate. Really. The wooden cabinets glow golden in the morning light. The windows look out towards Camel’s Hump, and the rolling racks are filled with tray after tray of macaroons.

Sometimes, the food on our store shelves really does come from enchanted places. It’s nice to know, and adds a little extra savor to the macaroon that I’m nibbling along with my tea. As head cartoon elf J.J Keebler is fond of saying, it’s “uncommonly good”.

Find a list of stores that carry Krin's treats at her Bakery Website