A small bakery in Srinagar

Dolce began at home, baking for people we knew. Word travelled the way it does here — a box passed on at a family gathering, a name shared between friends — and it grew from there.

We have kept it deliberately small. Everything is made to order in small batches, which is why we ask for 1 day’s notice: the dough rests for a day or more before it is shaped and baked. It is what gives a cookie its depth, and it isn’t something you can rush.

Real butter. Chocolate worth chopping by hand. Kashmiri walnuts when the season is right. Nothing baked before you ask for it, and nothing sitting on a shelf.

A café is on the way. Until then everything is baked to order and collected by arrangement, and you’ll find us on Instagram.