Step inside At Baked By Esme, you are greeted not just by the warm notes of browned butter and fresh chocolate, but by a story of care woven into every small batch. Esme's earliest days spent in a Houston kitchen—her hands dusted with flour, studying old recipe cards handed down by family—planted the roots for this bakery's mission: to offer comfort beyond flavor. Her love for baking grew beside her determination to respond when the Texas floods showed how urgently neighbors

Step through the doors of Baked By Esme—a scent of butter and warm chocolate greets you, inviting pause in a city that rarely stands still. I built this bakery for moments like these: where simple ingredients become memorable through care, and everyday cookies transform into something singular. My earliest training came not from pros, but from sunlight through childhood kitchens and secondhand aprons, watching grandmothers and TV bakers coax stories from mixing bowls. Those m