A family of six — parents and their kids ranging in age from tots to phone-waving teens — gathers around the concha the way people do a birthday cake after the candles are blown out, each grabbing a generous hunk of the pink-frosted Mexican pastry. Oddly enough, there’s still a lot left over, a lot; more than plenty for a round of seconds.
These, clearly, are no ordinary conchas, nor is the place that serves them your everyday cafe. Newly opened on Fort Worth’s North Side, Con Azucar Cafe is a small, family-run coffee and pastry shop specializing in Mexican-inspired coffee drinks — and conchas as big as babies.
“They’re at least 14 inches in diameter and weigh about three pounds,” says Demian Sanchez, son of owner Samantha Sanchez. “We went through three batches of prototypes. The bakers, at first, didn’t understand why we wanted them so big. But finally, they got it. They understood what we’re trying to do here.”…