Kuluntu Bakery | Building community through baking & breaking bread

The meaning of “kuluntu” is “community” in isiXhosa, a South African language of the amaXhosa people.

The mission of Kuluntu Bakery is to build community through baking & breaking bread in Dallas.

We are a cottage bakery located in Oak Cliff near Bishop Arts District.

All events, workshops, and order pickups will take place at our home.

Preorder required.

Upcoming Events

Virtual Sourdough Class

January 30

More details here.

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Happy MLK Day! I hope you’re having a restful an

Happy MLK Day! I hope you’re having a restful and reflective day, especially going into this wild week with the inauguration.

We have a few items left for this Thursday’s pickup, including a zesty slice of olive oil, ginger and grapefruit cake🍰 Orders close tonight at 10 pm. Link in bio to place your order!

Our Loaf of the Week menu is live and we’ve got

Our Loaf of the Week menu is live and we’ve got lots of new items for y’all!

This week’s menu...
⚡️Dark chocolate babka knots
⚡️Olive oil, ginger & grapefruit cake slice
⚡️Roasted grape, caramelized onion & Gorgonzola galette
⚡️Country sour
⚡️Seedy sour
⚡️Orange blossom & olive oil challah

Our new menu is seasonal and rotating; some items may be around for a few weeks and others may be just once off. Link in bio to place your order by Monday @ 10 pm. Pickup on Thursday from 5-7 pm✌️

We’re back, friends🙌 We’ll be back to produ

We’re back, friends🙌 We’ll be back to production next week with our Loaf of the Week. Preorders open tomorrow at 10 am, close on Monday at 10 pm, and pickup is Thurs 5-7 pm.

Thank you for understanding and supporting our need to take a break from production. I have better systems in place and an improved work setup so that I can be more efficient and bake more for y’all!

I was hoping to have our croissants ready to go for next week, but our new sheeter is getting some upgrades (thanks, Dad!). Nonetheless, we will have some new delicious items to share with y’all. We’ve missed you and can’t wait to see y’all soon!

New year, new baking classes! If you missed the so

New year, new baking classes! If you missed the sourdough bandwagon last year, now’s your chance to jump on it. We have a full(ish) day virtual sourdough class on January 30. We’ll go through all the ins, outs, science and technique of sourdough baking. We’re all at home already (and if you’re not, you should be😷), so what better way to spend the day than baking bread! Link in bio for all the deets.

Snow day breakfast❄️ Chocolate & almond croiss

Snow day breakfast❄️ Chocolate & almond croissant knot. Hope y’all are staying warm and toasty!

✨Happy New Year✨ We hope your new year is off

✨Happy New Year✨

We hope your new year is off to a safe, healthy and peaceful start. It's hard to find the words to capture such a wild year that rocked the world and forever changed our lives. Your outpouring of love and support during this time has meant everything to us.

A highlight for us was chatting with y’all as we dropped our basket of bread down to you at our old place😆 That feeling of connection and community kept us going amid the isolation and anxiety that characterized 2020.

I sent out an update this morning to our email list, which I’ve linked in my bio for those interested in reading the full version.

The highlights:
💫We are currently on break. We are tinkering with new equipment, working to streamline our processes, and developing new recipes (hello, croissants and all the laminated pastries!) We will be back in mid to late-January. Those who are on our Loaf of the Week email list will receive an email when we are accepting orders again. Please email me if you'd like to join the list.
💫Going forward, we will only be offering one pickup day per week. The pandemic won't last forever, and we want to make sure that we take the time to work on what's most important to us -- opening a nonprofit bakery focused on women and community-building.
💫For those who are local to Dallas, please take a few minutes to complete our Loaf of the Week survey. This will help inform our pickup process and menu going forward. It will take just a few minutes, I promise. Linked in the email update in bio.
💫Lastly, our Winter/Spring 2021 virtual baking class schedule is live on our website! We have sourdough bread making, a Valentine's weekend sourdough pizza party, and a springtime tart class. Check out our website for the full schedule.

Thank you so much to all those who have already completed the survey🙏 See y’all soon!

📸 @kelseyfosterphotography

Pretty happy with my first trial on the new sheete

Pretty happy with my first trial on the new sheeter💫 Time to tinker away.

Coming 2021... viennoiserie! I’ve been wanting t

Coming 2021... viennoiserie! I’ve been wanting to share laminated pastries with y’all for a long while, but TBH, hand laminating was not my thing💀

I’m spending the next few weeks getting sorted for the new year (more updates to come) and decided to purchase this manual dough sheeter from Etsy ha! So far so good, and I’m excited to play around with it.

With that, I just want to remind y’all that we are closed for the next few weeks. I realize that’s very vague, but I’ll have a date soon and be back with bigger and better bakes! Until then, I hope you are resting, staying in your pjs all day, and indulging in delicious food.

P.S. don’t forget to check out our class schedule on the website for upcoming baking classes!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you to e

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you to everyone that placed a holiday order. We hope you are enjoying every bite, especially the South African Treat Boxes. Warren wrote the poem that you see to accompany these boxes. It feels really special to share this piece of our family with y’all.

While many of you know the story of Kuluntu, there’s one piece of it that I don’t share as often, and that piece comes from my love and muse, Warren. If you know Warren, you know that he is incredibly proud of and passionate about South Africa and still very much connected through his work and scholarship.

Making the decision to move from Cape Town to Dallas was an extremely difficult decision for us to make. Which is one of the reasons why we decided to bring Kuluntu Bakery, still in its infancy, back with us too. As a family, it is so important that we are just as South African as we are American. Kuluntu has been one of the ways in which we are able to share that piece of our family with you, but also preserve it within our family.

Thank you for allowing us to do that and being so receptive and eager to try new, delicious things! We hope you have the merriest of Christmases, even though it looks quite different this year. Please be safe and take rest over the holidays. We will be off for the next few weeks as we get some new equipment for bigger and better bakes in 2021✨

💝Share the Love Giveaway💝 We’re hosting o

💝Share the Love Giveaway💝
We’re hosting our first ever giveaway to help share the love a little this holiday season! Winner will receive our South African Holiday Treat Box filled with lots of unique goodies🇿🇦

To enter:
1) Follow @kuluntubakery
2) Tag someone who has inspired you this year and tell us why💕Each comment is an entry.
3) Open to local residents only. Sorry far-away friends!
4) Giveaway ends at tonight at midnight. Winner will be announced tomorrow am.

Busy little baker over here🙋‍♀️ Everythin

Busy little baker over here🙋‍♀️ Everything is looking great for our Christmas bake, and we can’t wait to see y’all tomorrow! Pickup is from 4-7 pm and pickup details can be found in your email confirmation. Mask is required for pickup😷

If all goes well packing up the treat boxes tonight and we have extras, I’ll host a little giveaway tomorrow on insta, so be on the lookout👀

These gorgeous rooibos-poached pears will be toppi

These gorgeous rooibos-poached pears will be topping our malva puddings. Rooibos, a red herbal tea native to South Africa, is one of my favorite culinary ingredients. The sweet, floral notes pair beautifully with so many flavors (pears being one of my favorites). And just look at that color😍

Our last Loaf of the Week pickup for the year💫

Our last Loaf of the Week pickup for the year💫

Warren will he handling pick ups tonight as I’ll be participating in @tfadfw virtual Home for the Holidays event. We have quite a few people picking up orders tonight, so we ask for your patience and to keep your distance if a line forms (y’all are already so good at this — thank you!)

And thank you for allowing me to bake for you this year! I couldn’t be more grateful for the love and support🥰 See you at our Christmas pickup next Wednesday!

Christmas preorders close tomorrow night! We have

Christmas preorders close tomorrow night! We have one more malva pudding, a warm, gooey South African dessert, similar to sticky toffee pudding. We topped it with rooibos poached pears and prepared it in a baking tin so that you can heat it up right before serving.

We also have a few more South African treat boxes! We’ve been overwhelmed by your support this holiday season (and whole year) that it’s safe to say I’ll be in the kitchen prepping non-stop until next week😅 send coffee!

P.S. be sure that you double check your email confirmation for your pickup day. There was some confusion last week with some customers placing an order for Christmas thinking they were placing for Thursday pickup.

P.P.S. We will be closed for a few weeks after the holidays to rest and recuperate! Just giving y’all a heads up.

It’s the last week to order holiday goodies like

It’s the last week to order holiday goodies like our South African Treat Box! You can order for pickup on Thursday through our Loaf of the Week or for our Christmas pickup on 12/23.

This week’s menu👇
-Gingerbread loaf slice
-Honey, cinnamon & raisin sour
-Country sour
-Rosemary & sea salt focaccia
-South African Holiday Treat Box

Happy Friday! I’ve been getting many questions a

Happy Friday! I’ve been getting many questions about upcoming classes, so I just added a few virtual sourdough classes for early 2021! Makes for a great Christmas gift😉 Head to Events on the website for deets.

I’ve also added digital gift cards to the website which can be redeemed on either baked goods or classes (go to Christmas Preorder to purchase). I will continue to add classes, so a gift card may be better if you need some flexibility.

My plan at the moment is to continue with monthly virtual classes (please don’t ask if I can do in-person, I will let you know when I’m ready for this🙃) and alternate between sourdough and some other fun, shorter, likely naturally leavened classes. Go ahead and save the date for a sourdough pizza party on Valentine’s weekend💕

📸 @hunterfolacey @dallasdoinggood

Hi hi! We have three free country sours available

Hi hi! We have three free country sours available tomorrow for those affected by COVID or essential workers. Please DM me if this applies to you or a loved one. One per person and pickup only. Thank you to the lovely customer who sponsored these loaves🙏

We’re partnering with Teach for America DFW to b

We’re partnering with Teach for America DFW to bring y’all another family-friendly holiday event — a holiday house engineering competition! Houses must be built with graham crackers and edible ingredients, and you can submit your entry now through Dec 14.

On Dec 17, we’ll host a special Home for the Holiday zoom session where we’ll announce the winners and make hot chocolate together. All the details and sign up can be found at the link in my bio!

Hope y’all are having a lovely, wintery weekend!

Hope y’all are having a lovely, wintery weekend! Our Loaf of the Week email went out yesterday, and you have until Monday at 10 pm to place an order for Thursday pickup. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to place your Christmas order!

Also, we are still offering free loaves to those affected by COVID. You can order up to one loaf every week. Thank you to those who have sponsored loaves this year!

This week’s menu👇
✨Peppermint Crisp Fudge - A variation of one of my favorite South African desserts and a popular one in the Chalklen family. Rich fudge topped with Peppermint Crisp candy bar, tennis biscuits and caramel treat😛 Pictured above.
✨South African Holiday Treat Box
✨Orange, cranberry & walnut sour
✨Country sour
✨Rosemary & sea salt focaccia

Happy Sweet 16, Thandiwe✨ @sinikiwe_poppins

Happy Sweet 16, Thandiwe✨ @sinikiwe_poppins

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