From Argentina to Park City, Tina’s Bakery Shares Passion for Food and Culture

Opening its doors just three months ago, Tina’s Bakery, in Park City, has become a favorite overnight. Founded by friends, Agostina and Valentina, the idea for Tina’s Bakery was to create and cook baked goods from scratch, classic to their native home of Argentina, using local ingredients. 

We cook food because we love to share it with friends and family. That’s what we love to do! That’s a feeling that we want to share with our customers. It’s about family tradition and sharing our culture. For Latin American people food is one of the most important things. It’s an excuse to gather.

Agostina and Valentina, Founders of Tina’s Bakery
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Valentina and Agostina, both from Argentina, are the founders of Tina’s Bakery.

Agostina and Valentina were both raised enjoying big meals, family and friends all together around a large table, hours spent sharing the most memorable moments while eating amazing food. Now, after moving to the states and meeting just three years ago, the duo are making fresh empanadas, cakes, savory tarts, breads, and speciality desserts, to share with the Park City community.

Valentina, Agostina, from Argentina and Latina, the theme was easy! That’s the food we eat, it’s what we share with our friends, it’s our culture.

Agostina and Valentina, Founders of Tina’s Bakery

The duo compliments one another, with Valentina’s specialty being empanadas and savory tarts, and Agostina handling the cakes and all of the sweets. All of the empanada and pastry doughs are made from scratch, the brownie base, fillings, lemon curd, also, made in-house. They use family recipes, and on a daily basis, speak to their mothers, grandmothers and aunts, who still live in Argentina, about food ideas for the business. The only ingredient not made in-house is the dulce de Leche, which is still imported from Argentina, for its authenticity.

We’re really bringing our family recipes to the states.

Agostina and Valentina
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Tina’s Bakery offers a variety of empanada flavors, from traditional beef, lightly spicy chicken, Malbec beef, sautéed veggies, and more.

After moving to the states eight years ago, Valentina focused on making empanadas because they were so hard to find. After years of research, learning, and practice, she is finally happy with her product. Tina’s Bakery offers traditional beef empanadas, lightly spicy chicken, Malbec beef, sautéed veggies, corn and white sauce, and ham and cheese, made fresh daily, for preorder pickup or frozen to be baked at home. Valentina also creates savory tarts from scratch, like cream of asparagus, cheese and bacon, roasted veggies, and butternut squash, ricotta and caramelized onion.

I got it from my grandmother, watching her, she taught me a lot.

Valentina

As for those sweet treats, Agostina spends her time creating homemade coconut cake, passion fruit cake, sweet lemon curd tarts, and Argentinian favorites like marquise cake, a rich chocolate base with dulce de leche, chocolate mousse, whipped cream and mixed berries on top; pastafrola, a soft and crumbly pastry filled with traditional Argentinian quince jam; and alfajores, “the most Argentinian dessert you can have,” a buttery cookie “sandwich,” filled with dolce de leche and topped with powdered sugar.

Sharing the experience with Valentina is fun. We play music and dance along. When Val and I cook together we just have fun.

Agostina
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Alfajores are a buttery cookie “sandwich,” filled with dolce de leche and topped with powdered sugar.

Cooking every day, eight hours a day, in a rented commercial kitchen to fill all of their preorders, has become the new norm for Valentina and Agostina. Grateful to share their South American flavors, the two are excited to show their passion and love for food, friendship and family with a new storefront opening this winter in Kimball Junction, offering both dine in and take out.

It [Tina’s Bakery] goes with the Park City vibes. We really want to thank the Park City community for its support. It is an amazing place to start a business and we are very thankful.

Agostina and Valentina

Follow @thetinasbakery for menu items and specials. Call 435-901-1597 or email thetinasbakery@gmail.com to place an order. All orders must be made 48 hours in advance.

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