Baking in Agra since 2001.

Agra has been walking through our door since 2001. The sixth-birthday cake we made then is the wedding cake this year; the wedding cake from 2007 is still in an album somebody re-opens once a year. A lot of what we bake is for the days a family plans months ahead of - the weddings, the big birthdays, the anniversaries where the cake is photographed and remembered. Those are the orders we take the most seriously.

2001 to today

We opened in 2001 with one oven and a short menu, focused on the cakes people in Agra were actually buying then - birthdays, anniversaries, the occasional wedding.

The work grew slowly from there. A second outlet followed in 2006, the kitchen's sugar work got more ambitious, and designer cakes joined the shelf as weddings and milestone birthdays, from Agra and beyond, started to ask more of us.

One thing hasn't moved in twenty-four years: if a cake wasn't baked that morning, it isn't on the shelf that night.

Two outlets

We have two outlets, both in Agra. The outlets page has addresses, phone numbers, and pickup timings.

The founders

Ved Pal Dhar and Komila Dhar opened MKOP in 2001, and still run it twenty-four years on. A lot of the recipes are theirs; most of the rules about what does and doesn't go on the shelf are theirs; the fact that the bakery still works the way it does, mostly, is theirs.

If you'd like to see what we're baking this week, the cakes are here.