Café Supplier in Abu Dhabi: Cake Loaves, Cookies and Focaccia

Farah Bakery supplies cafés, delis and hotel lobby counters in Abu Dhabi from our kitchen in Dubai Silicon Oasis, and an Abu Dhabi order arrives between 2 pm and 8 pm, the earliest two days after you order. Because the bakes land in the afternoon, most are for the following days' service, so build the order around what keeps: four cake loaves at 35 AED each and six cookies at 14 to 18 AED, with the 12 AED mushroom and cherry tomato focaccias for the next day. Delivery is 20 AED below 150 AED and free from 150 AED, with no minimum order.

Everything is baked to order in our kitchen in Dubai Silicon Oasis. For a home order, see bread delivery to Abu Dhabi; for a café inside Dubai, our bread supplier guide for Dubai.

Can a Dubai bakery supply a café in Abu Dhabi?

Yes: we bake to order in Dubai Silicon Oasis and deliver to businesses in Abu Dhabi, as shop orders or as regular supply agreed with us.

• Dates. Choose Abu Dhabi as the emirate at checkout and it offers four consecutive dates, the earliest two days after you order, each between 2 pm and 8 pm: order on a Sunday and it offers Tuesday to Friday.
• Why not sooner. Our courier partner needs a full day's notice, so next-day delivery isn't available. There is no same-day delivery.
• Cost. 20 AED on a bag below 150 AED, nothing from 150 AED.

A shop order through the shop is also how to run a trial. Regular supply is agreed through our contact page; our wholesale page shows the range without prices. We sell baked goods only, not drinks; see whether Farah is a bakery or a distributor.

Which bakes hold up after an afternoon delivery?

Cake loaves and cookies keep at room temperature into the days after delivery, the mushroom and cherry tomato focaccias hold for the next day, and the Granola Bar is best the day it arrives.

Cake loaves, 35 AED each, the strongest fit. All four in our cake loaf collection are sold whole and kept out of the fridge.

• Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaf. Three to four days whole in an airtight box at room temperature, and better on day two.
• Marble Cake Loaf. Three to four days whole in an airtight tin at room temperature; the neutral, moderately sweet loaf for a counter where tastes are unknown.
• Banana & Pecan Cake Loaf and Double Chocolate & Coconut Cake Loaf. Wrapped at air-conditioned room temperature for the first two days; beyond that, slice, wrap the slices and freeze them.

Cookies, 14 to 18 AED. All six cookies in our cookies and bars collection are kept airtight at room temperature, never in the fridge.

• Lotus & White Chocolate Chip Cookie, 16 AED. Best eaten within two to three days.
• Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookie, 18 AED. Two to three days is the sweet spot.
• Double Chocolate Chip Cookie, 18 AED. Three to four minutes in an oven at around 160°C re-melts the chocolate.
• Peanut Butter Cookie, 14 AED. A few days airtight, out of direct light.
• Chocolate Crinkle Cookie, 14 AED. Sealed only once completely cool, because trapped steam turns the white crust sticky.
• Oats & Cranberry Cookie, 16 AED. Its chew arguably peaks the day after baking, and it declines slowly because the oats hold moisture.

Focaccia, 12 AED. Three flavours in our focaccia collection; our guide to the three focaccias compares them.

• Focaccia · Mushroom. Genuinely good the next day; five or six minutes in a hot oven re-crisps the ridges.
• Focaccia · Cherry Tomato. Holds overnight better than a lean loaf.
• Focaccia · Rosemary & Olive Oil. Best on the day. Revive it with a few drops of water on top and four to six minutes at 200°C; beyond a day, freeze it flat.

Granola Bar, 12 AED. Keep it wrapped or sealed until it is eaten, because honey pulls water from the air, and skip the fridge, which sets the honey binder hard; see our granola bar guide.

Plan these separately.

• Croissants are for the afternoon and evening they arrive, unless you freeze plain Croissants, 14 AED, that same day; our croissant supplier page for Abu Dhabi covers all five.
• Sandwiches and the Granola Parfait with Greek Yogurt go into the fridge on arrival and are eaten soon.
• Bread. The Country Sourdough Loaf, 25 AED, slices well for three to four days; our sourdough supplier page for Abu Dhabi and toast bread supplier page cover the loaves.

How should a café keep and display them?

Put out what you expect to sell that day and keep the rest sealed or, for focaccia, in paper: our storage advice favours airtight boxes and wrapping over an open counter, so a small display backed by sealed stock suits these bakes.

1. Cut one loaf at a time. Keep each cake loaf whole as long as you can; press cling film against the cut face of the lemon and marble loaves and return them to their airtight box or tin, and keep the banana and chocolate-coconut loaves well wrapped.
2. No glass jar for the pistachio cookie. It keeps best in a closed cupboard, out of direct sun; every cookie goes back into an airtight container.
3. Focaccia in paper, granola bars wrapped. Focaccia sits in paper or under a cloth, and granola bars stay sealed until they are eaten.
4. Freeze on time. Slice and freeze the banana and chocolate-coconut loaves beyond two days and the Marble Cake Loaf beyond three to four; marble slices defrost at room temperature in about twenty minutes.

Our guides to the Marble Cake Loaf, the Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaf and our six cookies explain why each keeps the way it does.

How do you plan a week of café bakes from an Abu Dhabi delivery?

Order by the days you will use each bake: one afternoon delivery covers roughly the next two to four days of service.

Counting the delivery afternoon as day one:

• Day one. Plain croissants, best that day or frozen that evening, and the Rosemary & Olive Oil focaccia, best that day.
• Days one and two. The banana and chocolate-coconut loaves, wrapped, before any leftover is sliced and frozen; the mushroom and cherry tomato focaccias on day two, warmed through.
• Days two to four. The lemon loaf, better on day two, and the marble loaf, both within their three to four days, plus the cookies; the Lotus and Pistachio ones reach the end of their two to three days on day three.

Reordering. Order again on delivery day for a date two days out; for regular supply, the days are agreed with us.

Three worked orders at today's shop prices:

• The keeping pair: two Marble Cake Loaves and two Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaves come to 140 AED, or 160 AED with delivery. Add one Lotus & White Chocolate Chip Cookie at 16 AED and the bag reaches 156 AED with free delivery, 4 AED less than paying the fee.
• A mixed order: a Marble Cake Loaf and a Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaf (70 AED), four Lotus & White Chocolate Chip Cookies (64 AED), four Oats & Cranberry Cookies (64 AED) and two Focaccia · Mushroom (24 AED) come to 222 AED, so delivery is free.
• Cookies and bars: six Oats & Cranberry Cookies (96 AED), four Peanut Butter Cookies (56 AED) and two Granola Bars (24 AED) come to 176 AED, with free delivery.

Payment is on PayPal's page, where a credit or debit card works, usually without a PayPal account; prices are shown in AED and settled in US dollars.

What should café customers be told about allergens?

Tell them what our kitchen handles, in our own wording, and keep the bakes that name nuts or peanuts on their own plate.

Our kitchen handles wheat, gluten, eggs, dairy, nuts, peanuts, soy, sesame and seeds, and we cannot guarantee that any item is free from traces of these.

• Nuts and peanuts. The Pistachio Chocolate Chip Cookie and the Banana & Pecan Cake Loaf contain nuts, the Peanut Butter Cookie contains peanuts, and the Granola Bar contains nuts alongside its oats and seeds.
• Their own plate. Give those four, and the Almond Cream Croissant and the Pistachio Croissant, which also contain nuts, their own plate and tongs, as our croissant catering guide does for the nut croissants. That does not make the other plates suitable for a nut allergy.
• Check first. Our product descriptions are not full ingredient lists, so do not copy allergen lists from product pages onto your counter labels. Tell us about any allergy before you order; we will tell you honestly whether we can serve that customer safely.

How does regular supply to an Abu Dhabi café start?

With a trial order to the café's address, then a message telling us what regular supply should look like.

1. Place a trial order through the shop for a date two days out. Tick "Delivering to a company / business?", add the company name, drop the map pin on the entrance and name the receiver in the notes for the baker.
2. Judge it on the days you sell it, not on arrival: was each bake still right on day two, three or four?
3. Message us through the contact page with the café, the bakes and rough quantities, the days you need them and who receives them.

Pricing for regular volume, delivery days and notice are agreed directly, not published. Our guide to choosing a wholesale bakery supplier lists the questions worth asking any supplier, us included.

Receiving. Fresh food needs a person, not a doorstep: please make sure someone is available to receive the order. We cannot replace fresh items left uncollected or unrefrigerated. The order can arrive at any point between 2 pm and 8 pm; our delivery page explains what to do if a delivery goes wrong.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you supply cafés in Abu Dhabi?

Yes. We bake to order in our Dubai Silicon Oasis kitchen and deliver to cafés in Abu Dhabi between 2 pm and 8 pm, the earliest two days after ordering. Shop orders have no minimum, and regular supply is agreed through our contact page.

How long do your cake loaves keep after delivery to Abu Dhabi?

The Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaf and the Marble Cake Loaf, at 35 AED each, keep three to four days whole in an airtight box or tin at room temperature. Keep the Banana & Pecan and Double Chocolate & Coconut loaves wrapped at air-conditioned room temperature for two days, then slice and freeze them.

Can croissants for an Abu Dhabi café be served the next morning?

Only plain ones that were frozen. Wrap and freeze the plain Croissant the day it arrives, then revive it straight from frozen at 160 to 170°C for five to six minutes. Plan the other croissants for the afternoon or evening they arrive.

Is there a minimum order or a wholesale price list for cafés?

The shop has no minimum order, and delivery is free from 150 AED. Pricing, delivery days and notice for regular supply are agreed with you directly when you get in touch, and we do not publish a wholesale price list.

What time do deliveries reach Abu Dhabi?

Between 2 pm and 8 pm, at any point in that window, on the date you choose. The earliest date is two days after you order, because our courier partner needs a full day's notice, and checkout offers four consecutive dates from then.

Order for your Abu Dhabi café

Place a trial order through the shop for a date two days out: a Marble Cake Loaf and a Classic Lemon Butter Cake Loaf for the days after, Oats & Cranberry Cookies and Lotus & White Chocolate Chip Cookies kept airtight, and a Focaccia · Mushroom for the next day. Then send us a message about regular supply to your café.