Fascinating Riviera Residents

Local Resident’s Bakery Takes the Cake as South Bay Favorite

bread. The cake artists at Torrance Bakery

are like Da Vinci’s with pastry bags. They can create just about any cake décor their customers dream up, including replicating decades old wedding cakes for 50th anniversaries. Stop by Torrance Bakery around Valentine’s Day and you’re bound to see cute little Love Bugs (white cake covered in white chocolate ganache with a red tint) and Valentine Whoopie Pies (butter cream-filled chocolate cake). Closer to Saint Patrick’s Day, customers can pick up Blarney Bugs and Shamrock Whoopie Pies, including the ever popular red velvet cake filled with cream cheese.

Cakes commemorating the Super Bowl, the Oscars, Mardi Gras, prom, graduation and more are also popular. “Some of our most in demand pastries are our chocolate chew and maple pecan chew cookies,” says Kirk. “Not only are they delicious, they’re flour free so they’re gluten friendly.”

Kirk does more than just oversee the family business. He also rolls up his sleeves and is a very talented cake decorator himself. In fact, he occasionally teaches a cake decorating class through El Camino Community college.

One of Kirk’s greatest pleasures as owner of Torrance Bakery is his customers. “Over the years we’ve served generations of families,” says Kirk. “We had several couples actually meet here and then wind up getting married. We enjoy knowing our customers by name, and knowing what they like to order with their morning coffee or to take home for later. We’re sort of like the Cheers of the bakery business.”

Kirk grew up in the Hollywood

Riviera and lives on the same street as his childhood home, near his parents and other relatives.

Stop by Torrance Bakery at 1341 El Prado Avenue in Old Torrance and say hello to Kirk. And while you’re there, bring in this newsletter for a free chocolate chew cookie. Your taste buds will thank you.

Kirk Rossberg has a sweet tooth, and that’s a very good thing. After all, the Hollywood Riviera native has worked his entire life surrounded by sugary treats. His first job, at the age of 13, was at a confectionery shop in the Riviera Village called Edelweiss candies. When that business moved he took an after school job at a nearby bakery and quickly realized cakes were his calling.

You can still find Kirk surrounded by delicious desserts, but today it’s at Torrance Bakery, the business his family has owned and operated since 1984. Located in downtown Torrance, the shop started with eight workers and today employees 89 people in its

two locations (the second bakery is in Gardena).

It’s easy to see (and taste) why Torrance Bakery is such a success. Hundreds of customers visit the bakery every day for their scrumptious goods, including freshly baked donuts, cakes, brownies, cookies, cinnamon buns, muffins and more. And those cream-filled fried croissants the nation has been clamoring for recently? Torrance Bakery has been making them for years. The bakery also serves lunch items such as soups, salads, and sandwiches made on freshly baked

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