Courtesy of Courtenay Harris
Courtenay Harris is the baker behind Christopher's Bakery in Grapevine.
Courtenay Harris woke up one day recently to something sweeter than his best-tasting dessert offering.
His burgeoning bakery had just received the desperately needed, proverbial shot in the arm he had spent long hours laboring for over the past five years. It was a break that came completely out of the blue.
As if perhaps an angel had interceded on his behalf.
It’s certainly not a long shot possibility, but whatever the case might have been, Harris’ little-known Christopher’s Bakery recently rose to the top of the Dallas Morning News’ best-of readers’ choice awards in the category of “best bakery.”
Based in Grapevine, Christopher’s Bakery is an online concept founded by Harris in 2016. His signature dessert is a vanilla wafer cake his father made famous within the family, their school, and their church as Harris was growing up. It includes raisins, pecans, coconut, and dried cranberries.