Irma Bakery

Just cakes? No way, there’s so much more!
What can I say, my parents have been coming here since I was 7 to get our fresh baked pineapple filled Nicaraguan style cake and to this very day, the staff in my office comes out to this little shop for the very same style cake for my birthday. It’s not just me who is crazy about it either, there are never any leftovers (a shame really) because it’s just that delicious.
They also make what are thought to be these odd little pastelitos de carne (beef), pollo (chicken), or piña (pineapple), which have a semi-​hard empanada like exterior with a semi-​crunchy edge (not flaky) and they are covered with grains of sugar, each about the size of a dumpling. Sugar and beef on chicken? That’s crazy! Yea, well, try it.
It’s a Nica bakery thru and thru serving up picos, bolillos, quesillos, crema, cuajadas, Pio V, cacao, & cebada; but they also serve up a pretty good blend of cuban coffee, pastelitos de guava y queso, croquettas, tequeños and even colombian pan de bono.
Come for the cakes but don’t shy away from the snacks and the authentic Nica items, all freshly baked, cured, or handmade daily.
Oh yea, did I mention they make a tres leche that makes even lactose intolerants wish they could eat it simply from the expressions others make? Don’t leave this place without trying a slice of that Nicaraguan heaven.

A ham and cheese empanada, two croquetas, a tequeno stuffed with guava and cheese, a café con leche, and 3 pastelitos with ground beef all for $ 3?! Pretty impressive! If I was a poor beggar starving for scrap of food, I would come back to this Nicaraguan bakery often just for that price!
But maybe I was charged on the cheap because it was late in the afternoon and the woman behind the counter felt sorry that I had to order something that wasn’t made fresh (I, like anyone else, should know to order things from the bakery in the morning)!
Nevertheless, the croquetas were good and the coffee good. The tequeno had too much dough which can be ruinous since the magic of the tequeno is really on the cheese, not the dough (which should be the second most important thing after the cheese) or the guava. The sweetened pastelitos with ground beef and the coffee were good.
Despite all that, I don’t think I would come back for these things. This place seems to be more known for its cakes more than the sweets, pastelitos and bocaditos they have here.
This bakery seems to be popular with the Nicaraguans in the neighborhood — I was here during an off hour and there was constantly somebody coming in or out, but that may have been because the daycare next door had just let their kids out for the day.
This needed to be reviewed further for its cakes. And maybe for the other goods during the MORNING hours!