Sugar Mamma’s Bakery opens in Briarcliff

The official Sugar Mamma of Briarcliff Village

The storefront at 4173 N. Mulberry Drive in the Briarcliff Village Shopping Center hasn’t had great luck with bakeries so far. The Pastry Goddess and a second location for Westport’s Napoleon Bakery did not succeed in this space.

But Kelly Hagan, along with her daughters Jordan and Peyton and her mother Barbara Hagan, believes she has the right recipe for success. She’s been operating Sugar Mamma’s Bakery since March.

“We bake everything on premises,” says Hagan, who uses family recipes for her cinnamon rolls, cakes and cookies. Her grandparents used to operate a famous Kansas City, Kansas catering facility — Hagan’s Manor House — in the 1960s and ’70s.

Kelly Hagan is so trim and lithe that it’s hard to believe she ever tastes anything she bakes — though she insists that she does. But her mother also does a lot of the baking.

There aren’t many tables and chairs in the combination bakery and restaurant, a pretty, girly place done up in shades of turquoise with chandeliers and tufted chairs. But the Hagans do serve light lunches (panini sandwiches and wraps) and several breakfast items. On Saturday mornings only, Kelly serves homemade sausage gravy on freshly baked biscuits.