Why no special Orders?

We won’t be taking special orders for the time being for a couple of reasons.

The first reason is that Clover and I specialize in different areas (breads for her and sweets for me) and we have various travel plans coming up which will mean parts of our menu will be unavailable when one of us is away.

The second reason is that we are a small bakery with a small kitchen and limited numbers of certain pan sizes/shapes so for example if someone puts in an order for rolls to pick up at a market that have to proof and bake in our 9 by 13 inch pans then I won’t be able to bake the cake that bakes in that pan for that market. Sometimes too we can run out of certain ingredients (usually for fresh fruit, dairy and eggs) which again means we won’t be able to bring a certain item to market.

If you see reason 2 and wonder why we don’t just do orders on non-market days the reason is that breads take a long time (multiple proofs, shaping and baking) and so if we only get one order for one loaf of bread Clover will be in the commercial kitchen working for 4 hours for the price of 1 loaf of bread, if that is our Honey Cranberry Walnut bread that’s 4 hours work for $8 (and that’s not factoring in the cost of ingredients!)

All this being said we will be doing special orders for holidays because we do love our bakes being a part of people’s holiday traditions and if someone asks if I could make a certain cake or cookie for the next market i’m usually going to do that!