Umrao Baking Craft

You'll find us right on Surat Main Road. Umrao Baking Craft is a place for people who like to bake at home or run small cake businesses. We aren't a bakery ourselves; we just sell the stuff you need to make the bread and cakes. We have rows of tins, different types of flour, and those little colorful decorations. The shop always smells a bit like vanilla because some of the essence bottles leak just a tiny bit. It’s a nice smell to work in all day. I started this because my wife loved baking but could never find the right pans in our neighborhood. The shop is often full of bags of sugar and flour, so you have to watch your step. We have a small counter where we measure things out. It’s mostly women from the nearby apartments who come in. We talk about recipes and what went wrong with a certain sponge cake. It’s a friendly atmosphere. We don't have a computerized system; we just write everything down in a big ledger. It works for us. The windows get a bit dusty from the road traffic, so I have to wipe them down every morning. It’s just a small shop for people who enjoy making things. We have a small shelf of old cookbooks that people can look at while they shop. It’s a cozy little corner of the world.