Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! We are excited to partner with Häagen-Dazs® to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by creating these delicious Churro Cookie Dulce De Leche Ice Cream Sandwiches! Let’s share our Hispanic heritage celebration with other Churro Cookie or Dulce de Leche lover friends! Let’s spread the sweetness of Hispanic Heritage Month by making these Churro Cookie Dulce De Leche Ice Cream Sandwiches together! 🧡

How to make Churro Cookie Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Sandwiches:

1. Freeze Häagen-Dazs® Dulce de Leche Ice Cream (14 fl oz pint) for 20 to 30 minutes or until firm enough to hold its shape.
2. Grab a stainless plate, tray, or wood board and place parchment paper on top of it.
3. Take the Häagen-Dazs® Dulce de Leche Ice Cream out of the freezer for 2-4 minutes before assembling Churro Cookie Dulce De Leche Ice Cream Sandwiches.
4. Place 8 La Monarca Churro Cookies in 2 rows of 4 on top of the parchment paper.
5. Place 1 scoop of Häagen-Dazs® Dulce de Leche Ice Cream  (about 1/4 cup or 45g) on top of one row of 4 Churro Cookies and gently spread the ice cream to the edges.
6. Sandwich a La Monarca Bakery Churro Cookie on top of the ice cream, then pick up the assembled ice cream sandwich and gently press it all together in the center to make a compact Churro Cookie Dulce De Leche Ice Cream Sandwich.
7. Place all 8 completed Churro Cookie Dulce De Leche Ice Cream Sandwiches back on the plate, tray, or board. Serve immediately or wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for 2 hours before serving.
8. Video Instructions Here

Enjoy and Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!

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La Monarca Bakery, a beloved Mexican food brand known for authentic Mexican pan dulce, cookies, and coffees, announces a major retail expansion with Northgate, marking substantial growth in the distribution and accessibility of the company’s CPG products.

“It has always been our vision to share the sweet flavor of Mexico with the next generation of Latino and mainstream consumers, ” co-founder & CEO Ricardo Cervantes notes. “Northgate Market is a leader in authentic Mexican products, and we are thrilled that consumers from Los Angeles to San Diego can now head to their neighborhood Northgate to find La Monarca Bakery’s sweet flavor of Mexico on store shelves.”

Products in the launch include three beverages and three cookies, and are available now in all forty-three Northgate Markets.

• Cafe de Olla Ground Coffee  - Available in a 12 oz. bag, La Monarca’s best-selling Cafe de Olla is made with freshly roasted coffee, cinnamon and brown sugar. 
• Chocolate Mexicano Beverage Mix - Available in a 10 oz. bag, La Monarca’s Chocolate is made from fair trade cacao ground in-house with a custom blend of sugar and species.
• Champurrado Atole Beverage Mix - Available in a 10 oz bag, La Monarca’s Champurrado is the modern version of the quintessential Mexican holiday beverage.
• Wedding Cookies - Available in a 6 oz bag, La Monarca’s signature Wedding Cookies are made with butter and pecans, and dusted with powdered sugar.
• Orejitas - Available in a 3.4 oz bag, La Monarca’s Orejitas are flaky and crunchy mini palmiers.
• Cinnamon Cookies - Available in a 6 oz bag, La Monarca’s Cinnamon shortbread cookies are dusted with a light cinnamon and sugar blend.

La Monarca Bakery donates 1% of its packaged product sales to protect and preserve the monarch butterfly, supporting their non-profit partner ECOLIFE Conservation whose programs protect wildlife, natural resources, and the people who depend on them. La Monarca Bakery was recently certified as a 1% For The Planet member company.

La Monarca Bakery is known for updating authentic Mexican recipes for today’s consumers, using high quality simple ingredients with no artificial flavors or preservatives. Since opening its first location in Huntington Park in 2006, La Monarca Bakery has expanded to 12 bakery-cafes in Los Angeles and sells its line of packaged cookies, coffees and beverage mixes online and with both national and regional retailers. Today, the brand is available in more than 1,000 retail locations across the U.S. 

For more information, please visit lamonarcabakery.com.

About La Monarca Bakery:

La Monarca Bakery was inspired by the pan dulce and pastries that founders Ricardo Cervantes and Alfredo Livas grew up enjoying in their hometown in Mexico. The company’s mission is to make delicious products with the Sweet Flavor of Mexico™, create opportunities in the communities they serve, and care for the environment. Their products are made with top-quality fresh ingredients, without preservatives, artificial colors or flavors. They are 1% for the Planet certified and donate 1% of the sales of packaged products to their non-profit partner ECOLIFE Conservation to protect and preserve the Monarch butterfly. La Monarca Bakery’s products can be found in 1000+ grocery stores including Costco, Albertsons, Vons, World Market, Safeway, Pavilions, Vallarta Supermarkets, Northgate Markets and Gelson’s.

 

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La Monarca Bakery a beloved Mexican food brand known for its authentic pan dulce, cookies, and coffees, is excited to announce the latest addition to their cookie lineup that will debut in Costco next month: Crunchy Cinnamon Churro Cookies. Starting mid-September, these sweet, buttery and flaky treats will be available in 59 Costco warehouses across Southern California, bringing a new way to enjoy the churro’s iconic flavors. For consumers who cannot wait until mid-September, they can visit one of La Monarca Bakery’s twelve locations to ask for a sample.

“We’re thrilled to introduce our new Churro Cookie creation at Costco, and hope to delight all Costco members with the sweet flavor of Mexico.” says co-founder & CEO Ricardo Cervantes. “Our Churro Cookies capture the flavor of a traditionally fried churro, but in a baked, crunchy, buttery cookie. We grind our cinnamon in-house, and use only simple ingredients for the perfect mix of sweetness and cinnamon.”

Made with only six ingredients - flour, butter, water, sugar, cinnamon and salt - La Monarca Bakery’s new Churro Cookies are a perfect blend of cinnamon, butter and crunchy texture reminiscent of the iconic churro, but in a cookie that’s baked, not fried and easy to enjoy anytime. 

Product Name: Crunchy Cinnamon Churro Cookies

UPC: 793420646757

Net Weight: 16 oz Container

Price: $8.49

Since opening its first location in Huntington Park in 2006, La Monarca Bakery has expanded to 12 bakery-cafes and a line of packaged cookies, coffees and chocolate beverage mixes that revamps classic Mexican recipes with high quality simple ingredients, and are now available at over 1,000 retail locations across the U.S.

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Los Angeles, CA. La Monarca Bakery is proud to announce its recent certification as a 1% for the Planet member. This achievement reaffirms La Monarca Bakery’s commitment to preserving and protecting the Monarch butterfly population, and is a result of La Monarca Bakery’s long-standing partnership with ECOLIFE Conservation, which cultivates impactful solutions to care for the delicate habitat of the Monarch butterflies that La Monarca Bakery honors in its namesake.

As La Monarca Bakery has grown from a single bakery in 2006 to twelve retail locations throughout Los Angeles and national grocery distribution today, its support of this mission has grown as well. In 2023, La Monarca Bakery raised and donated $68,000 towards Monarch Butterfly conservation through multiple fundraising initiatives, including an in-store retail activation during Earth Month in April.

“We founded La Monarca Bakery to share The Sweet Flavor of Mexico with our communities. Caring for the environment is part of our mission, and we are dedicated to helping preserve the Monarch Butterfly through 1% for the Planet. We are proud to join such renowned companies that share our commitment to making a positive impact on our world," said Ricardo Cervantes, CEO & Co-Founder.

“We believe environmental organizations play a unique and critical role in solving the many challenges facing our planet and our core work is to grow the corporate support that enables these Environmental Partners to empower greater change” states Kate Williams, CEO of 1% for the Planet.

ECOLIFE Conservation is at the forefront of impactful work ensuring the survival of the Monarch butterflies. As a business deeply committed to environmental responsibility, La Monarca Bakery looks forward to making a meaningful impact through its ongoing support of ECOLIFE.

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When you spend $100 or more at lamonarcabakery.com between November 20, 2023 and November 27, 2023, you will receive a gift with your purchase. We want to show our gratitude by sharing our Mexican Wedding Cookies with you and your family to gobble up.

1. Add a minimum of $100 of items from our Coffee Collection, Chocolate Collection, Cookies Collection, or Gift Set Collection to your cart. Our Buy with Prime Collection is excluded from this promotion.

2. Be sure to add at least one bag of Mexican Wedding Cookies to your shopping cart. Please note that at least one bag must be in your cart for the automatic discount to be applied.

3. When you view your cart or check-out, you will see that one bag of Mexican Wedding Cookies will be marked as "Wedding Cookie Gift with Purchase".

If you have any questions, please email support@lamonarca.com.

We wish you the sweetest Thanksgiving!

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"A Sweet and Savory Evolution" from LA Weekly. We are on the cover of LA Weekly Magazine!  Continue reading