How long will the pastries last?
All of our Zingerman’s Bakehouse pastries and coffee cakes are baked with full-flavored ingredients, but without preservatives. The good news is we’ve done the hard work of tasting and testing to ensure that they can be enjoyed for weeks to come.
If enjoying soon, keep them at room temperature.
Each baked good will have an “eat or freeze by” sticker that is about two weeks from when the package ships out. If enjoying the treats within a week or so of delivery, they can be kept at room temperature in the packaging they arrived in or in a plastic bag. Avoid the refrigerator, it can ruin the texture.
If enjoying later, keep them in the freezer.
For longer term storage, all of our baked goods freeze well for up to three months. They can be stored in the freezer in their original packaging or, if they’ve been opened, double wrapped in plastic bags.
After the freezer, it is best to allow frozen pastries and coffee cakes to defrost slowly at room temperature in the packaging. That’s all–though with some pastries like scones, a little warm up in an oven will make them extra delicious.
Braided Challah Bread Details
Ingredients
Organic wheat flour (organic wheat, malted barley), water, egg yolk, honey, corn oil, sea salt, yeast
Contains: Wheat, Egg
Made on shared equipment with products containing milk, egg, soy, pecan, sesame.
Shelf life & storage
The bread will ship with two business day shipping to ensure it arrives as fresh and delicious as possible. Once it arrives, the bread will last on the counter for a few days. It does not need to be refrigerated – in fact, we recommend you avoid the fridge!
Challah is best enjoyed fresh, so we do not recommend that you freeze the bread.