Squid Ink & Cream Cheese
A jet-black squid-ink crust with a molten cream-cheese center.
1. Size
Whole100g
1
Product availability
Next-day delivery
across California · $9.99, free over $65
Bakehouse pickup
El Monte · free · select at checkout
Description
At Hour 20 Bakery, we make this bread with our own hand-fed levain and give it a long, cool fermentation so the flavor develops slowly. Clean label, made only with ingredients you can recognize.
Vegetarian — baked to order overnight in El Monte.
Ingredients
Bread flour, French T65 flour, levain, cream cheese, powdered sugar, sugar, butter, squid ink, sea salt
Allergens
Wheat, Dairy.
Made in a kitchen that handles wheat, dairy, egg, tree nuts & sesame — may contain trace allergens.
Conservation
Frozen until the day of. Thawed bagels keep 2 days bagged on the counter.
Product facts
Per-100g nutrition analysis in progress
| Net weight | 100g |
| Diet | Vegetarian |
| Leavening | House levain |
| wild cultures — no commercial yeast | |
| Cold ferment | 20 hours |
| Baked | To order, overnight |
| Preserved | Flash-frozen at peak |
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Common questions
What exactly is in the Squid Ink & Cream Cheese?
Bread flour, French T65 flour, levain, cream cheese, powdered sugar, sugar, butter, squid ink, sea salt. That's the whole list — raised on our own hand-fed levain. Contains wheat, dairy.
Why does it arrive frozen?
Every bake is baked fully overnight, then flash-frozen at its peak the same morning. Freezing pauses it at the exact moment it left the oven — a few minutes of reheating brings that moment back.
How do I reheat it?
8–10 min at 350°F from frozen, or thaw and give it 4–5 min — until the center is just melted.
How should I store it?
Frozen until the day of. Thawed bagels keep 2 days bagged on the counter.
What is the best way to enjoy it?
Warm until the cream cheese core just gives. The contrast — jet-black shell, molten white center — is best on the first bite.
When will it arrive?
We bake to order overnight in El Monte and deliver across California the next morning. Delivery is a flat $9.99, free on orders $65+ — or pick up free at the bakehouse in El Monte.
Free delivery
On California orders over $65
Baked to order
Slow-fermented 20 hours, baked overnight
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Raised on our own wild cultures in El Monte, California