Kukiss Bakery

Kukiss Bakery is a Venezuelan-born, Overland Park cottage bakery specializing in artisan pastry — long-fermented croissants and Latin-inflected sweets — sold through the Overland Park and Lenexa farmers markets rather than a storefront.

Description

Kukiss Bakery is a Venezuelan-owned artisan pastry operation based in Overland Park, run out of a home cottage kitchen under the Kansas Department of Agriculture cottage-food rules and sold primarily through the Overland Park and Lenexa Farmers Markets rather than a storefront.¹² Owner María Eugenia trained as a pastry chef in Venezuela and previously ran the pastry shop Pastaoro D’Rosa in San Cristóbal before relocating to the Kansas City metro and launching Kukiss in 2020.¹ The bakery is best known locally for long-fermented laminated goods, including a 36-hour croissant that was featured in mikcexplore’s November 2025 KC pastry guide.³

Ownership and history

Kukiss Bakery is owned and operated by María Eugenia and organized as Pastry Art LLC.¹ Before immigrating to the Kansas City metro, María Eugenia ran Pastaoro D’Rosa, a pastry shop in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, giving Kukiss an unusual operator lineage for a KC-metro bakery: a trained pastry-shop owner rebuilding a full product line inside cottage-kitchen constraints.¹ Kukiss launched in the KC metro in 2020 and has been a listed vendor at the Lenexa Farmers Market and the Overland Park Farmers Market ever since.¹² The specific home-kitchen address is not published in the surfaced sources and is not required to be — cottage-food operators in Kansas sell direct-to-consumer and are not required to publish a retail address. for street address if ever needed.

Links

• Lenexa Farmers Market vendor page: https://www.lenexa.com/Events-Activities/Farmers-Market/Farmers-Market-Vendors/Kukiss-Bakery
• Website / social handles:

Menu / Product line

Product line assembled from press coverage and city vendor listing; itemized prices not published in the surfaced sources.¹³²

• 36-hour croissants (signature; featured in mikcexplore’s Nov 2025 KC pastry guide)³
• Additional laminated and artisan pastries for full itemized list
• Venezuelan-style sweets and cookies for specifics
• Custom orders via farmers-market pickup

Sources

Footnotes

1. “In Culinary News: Kukiss Bakery,” IN Kansas City Magazine. Owner María Eugenia’s Venezuelan background, prior pastry shop Pastaoro D’Rosa in San Cristóbal, and Kukiss’s KC-metro launch and farmers-market presence. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. “Kukiss Bakery,” City of Lenexa Farmers Market vendor directory. Confirms current vendor status at the Lenexa Farmers Market. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. “Unique Pastry Guide,” mikcexplore, Nov 17, 2025. Feature on Kukiss’s 36-hour croissants within a KC pastry roundup. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³