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It was just a couple of years ago that BKMAG first celebrated the borough’s new “Golden Age” of pastry, the rapid influx of fun and delicious new bakeries popping up all over Kings County. Which isn’t to say we don’t also love our Brooklyn institutions: those Polish bakeries of Greenpoint, the Russian bakeries of Brighton…

It’s 6 p.m. on a bitingly cold Saturday in Bed-Stuy. The sun’s disappearing behind the brownstones, the street darkens, and the cheery green storefront of Welcome Home Bakery, sitting smilingly on the corner of Bedford and Greene Avenue, glows. Its gates not yet drawn for the night, huge windows betray tangerine stools stacked on the…