Clovis bakers celebrate with Rosca de Reyes, a decades-old tradition

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – As Jan. 6 approaches, bakeries crossed the United States and Latin America are bustling with orders for the Rosca de Reyes. For Cafe Oaxaca successful Clovis, the Rosca is much than a pastry - it’s a cherished contented spanning implicit 50 years.

The Rosca de Reyes translates to King's Cake.

The Garcia family, who ain and run Cafe Oaxaca, accidental the barroom holds heavy taste and spiritual value for radical crossed Latin America.

Eugenia Garcia says her family’s baking bequest began agelong earlier they immigrated to the United States. She learned to cook from her father, who was a baker for implicit 60 years and passed down his skills to his 7 daughters.

Eugenia past taught her girl Rosie Garcia and from determination the contented continued and evolved. 

Rosie says the Rosca's plan is meant to symbolize the circular crowns worn by the 3 kings who visited babe Jesus adorned with colorful "jewels," oregon successful the lawsuit of the Rosca, fruits similar figs and cactus.

”The circular signifier besides represents God’s eternal love, which has nary opening oregon end,” Garcia said.

But Garcia says she and her siblings chose to not lone uphold traditions but innovate arsenic well.

“Our Rosca looks a small spot antithetic than your emblematic panaderia,” Garcia said. “We utilized to combat implicit who got the concha portion connected the Rosca arsenic a family, truthful we decided to marque the full happening a concha. Now cipher tin combat implicit it anymore.”

The innovation, on with their assortment of sizes and adjacent vegan options, makes Cafe Oaxaca’s Roscas unsocial according to Garcia.

But 1 contented remains steadfast: each Rosca is made fresh. Garcia says that customers should hold until Jan. 6 to bask the treat, ensuring highest freshness, sensation and texture.

“As overmuch arsenic immoderate radical would privation them today, we’re like, sorry, mejor el seis [better connected the 6th],” Garcia said. “Please marque an order, but como dijo mi mamá [as my ma said], it’s champion for them to telephone and spot an order. They volition close.”

As families stitchery to observe the Day of the Three Kings, the Garcia family’s Roscas punctual everyone of the affluent taste and familial bonds this cherished vacation fosters.