Maybe Italy. Perhaps Scandinavia or Japan. But in the United States, bakers are increasingly applying real craft and attention to Mexican baked goods like conchas and a variety of pan dulce.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sweetmore Bakeries is pleased to announce that it has completed an acquisition of Azteca Bakeries, a wholesale manufacturer of authentic Mexican pastries and baked goods.

For generations of Mexican Angelenos born and raised in neighborhoods ... atop aluminum trays with metal tongs and eating the baked goods for breakfast — often dunked in coffee.