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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 3.16 91 THE SPREAD to appreciate the instant gratifcation of the baking process. In just a few hours, one of the bakers-in-training can turn four, sugar, butter and eggs into a picture-perfect cookie. The fve employees arrive at 5 a.m. to spread sticky brownie batter in sheet pans, bake double-chocolate-cream muffns or press forks into chewy, gluten-free peanut-butter cookies. They continue baking throughout the day, to complete orders (like the $40 box of cupcakes, cookies and macarons they offered for Valentine's Day) or to get a head start on the next day. The menu, a mix of family recipes and local and seasonal items, includes Scarlet's signature soft sugar cookie with pecans and a maraschino cherry. Head pastry chef Kenna Nelson, formerly of Annie May's Sweet Cafe, crafted the recipe for the bakery's gooey cinnamon rolls, which are hand-rolled daily and smeared with cream-cheese icing. Bacon Cheddar chive muffns always sell out. Available on weekends: baked pretzels topped with crispy cheese and stuffed with jalapeños and Cheddar, plus Monte Cristos dusted with powdered sugar and flled with salty ham, melted Swiss cheese and raspberry jam. "Ultimately we want to serve Louisville's sweetest treats," Starr says. "But the sweeter part for us is that we get to employ women." Scarlet's Bakery 741 Oak St. 741-5469