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Pan dulce—a category of colorful Mexican pastries—is as frequent a breakfast option for Texans as tacos and kolaches. Panaderías peddling seashell-stenciled conchas, pig-shaped marranitos, and pink cake (fluffy yellow sheet cake topped with pink icing and rainbow nonpareils) can be found in nearly every town. Most are easily recognizable by their colorful imagery and lettering, but San Antonio’s Alebrije Bakery has a subtler approach. The panadería sits in a renovated corner building near the towering gates of Fort Sam Houston in the Government Hill neighborhood. The external structure has earthen hues, but a sign featuring a winged armadillo—a kaleidoscopic, otherworldly animal spirit known as an alebrije—will let you know you’re in the right place. Alebrije Bakery‘s interior is more vibrant, partly thanks to the vivid…
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