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KEMA Sweets Bakery is a small independent bakery at 615 N Sterling Ave, Sugar Creek, MO 64054, open Tuesday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. It is one of only a handful of eating and drinking places in Sugar Creek, and the only bakery on the city’s own restaurant directory. Its work reaches into the town’s Slavic inheritance: at the 2025 Sugar Creek Slavic Festival the bakery sold haluski, kolache, and Slavic-themed products from a booth on the festival’s lower level. Tier 1 — a single independent storefront in an eastern Jackson County town the Registry has barely touched.123

Description

Sugar Creek is a town of roughly 3,000 wedged between Independence and the Missouri River, and its whole restaurant column runs to seven entries on the city’s own list — two of them national chains. KEMA Sweets Bakery is the bakery on that list, at 615 N Sterling Ave, a few blocks up Sterling from two-brothers-bistro.1

Weekday-daytime only: Tuesday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with the city’s own notice adding the standard caution that hours may vary and to call ahead.2

The bakery’s Slavic repertoire is the part with a paper trail. Sugar Creek was settled substantially by Croatian, Slovenian, and other central-European workers drawn to the Standard Oil refinery, and the town still runs the Sugar Creek Slavic Festival — 40 years old as of the June 2026 edition. The festival’s 2025 vendor roster lists “KEMA’s Sweet Bakery” on the lower level selling haluski, kolache, and Slavic themed products, alongside the Czech-Slovak Club of KC and May’s House of Kielbasa.34

Broader menu claims (custom cakes, breads, coffee, specific pastries) circulate only on aggregator listings and are not reproduced here. for a first-party product list.

Ownership and history

. No first-party “about” page, no local-press profile, and no filing were located this pass. The business operates a Facebook page under the name KEMA Sweets Bakery; the name “KEMA” is undocumented as to origin — do not assume it is an acronym without a source.5

The bakery is not a legacy Sugar Creek institution on any evidence found: it appears in the city’s directory and in the 2025 festival roster, both recent. Founding year, ownership, and any predecessor at 615 N Sterling remain open questions.

menu_status: na — no first-party itemized or priced menu was located. The bakery publishes to Facebook rather than to a menu page, and aggregator-listed items and prices are excluded by policy.5

What is sourced: at the 2025 Sugar Creek Slavic Festival the bakery sold haluski, kolache, and Slavic-themed products.3 Price tier is estimated $ on category grounds (counter bakery) — not verified.

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Footnotes

  1. City of Sugar Creek, Missouri — “Sugar Creek Restaurants” business directory (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: KEMA Sweets Bakery, 615 N Sterling Ave, Sugar Creek, MO 64054, (816) 886-6536; the city’s full restaurant list is Domino’s, KEMA Sweets Bakery, Peking Express, Whiskey and Tequila (718 N Sterling Ave), Sterling Bowl, Taco Bell, and Two Brothers Bistro. ↩ ↩2

  2. City of Sugar Creek, Missouri — “Frequent your favorite Sugar Creek Eatery” (municipal news item) (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: KEMA Sweets Bakery hours “Tues-Fri 8:00am – 2:00pm”; seven Sugar Creek eateries listed including Katz Sugar Inn at 718 N Sterling Ave and Two Brothers Bistro Mon–Fri 7:00am–4:00pm; advisory that hours may vary and to call to verify. ↩ ↩2

  3. “2025 Vendors & Exhibitors,” Sugar Creek Slavic Festival (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: lower-level vendor “KEMA’s Sweet Bakery - Haluski, kolache, Slavic themed products”; co-vendors include May’s House of Kielbasa, Czech-Slovak Club of KC, Flavor First Catering, European Market & Cafe, and R Jelenik US. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Sugar Creek Slavic Festival — home page (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: 40th Anniversary festival, Friday June 12 5–11 pm and Saturday June 13 12–11 pm; admission $7 adults, children 12 and under free; food roster includes povitica, kolache, kieflie, kielbasa, sarma, krompir salata, goulash, haluski. Used here only for festival context, not for bakery-specific claims. ↩

  5. KEMA Sweets Bakery — Facebook page (accessed 2026-08-13; content behind Meta’s login/anti-bot wall on this pass). Asserts: existence of the business’s primary social presence under this name. No first-party ownership, founding, or menu content was retrievable. ↩ ↩2

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On the record — ks.city/registry/kema-sweets-bakery · record updated 2026-08-13