Modified schedule for Christmas holiday:

Mon 12/23 —   CLOSED as usual

Tues 12/24 —  OPEN 8am to 2pm

Weds 12/25 to Weds 1/1 — CLOSED

Thurs 1/2 — Back to our usual schedule so OPEN 8am to 7pm

Gingerbread men

Chocolate cupcake with peppermint buttercream

Decorated cutout cookies

What’s Available at the Bakery Now

As we head into the holiday season, we are already stocking our cases with lots of goodies, including gingerbread men, chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream, frosted sugar cookie bars, rum bites, decorated cutouts, jam thumbprints, pecan snowballs and Scottish shortbread.

As of today, all of these items will be on the website menu in addition to small and large holiday cookie boxes and our other bigger offerings like buche de noel.  

Pumpkin and banana bread

Small and large holiday cookie boxes

Buche de Noel

Christmas Orders!

We will accept Christmas orders until we reach capacity. When we do reach capacity, I will post something at the top of our website.

Please pick up your order no later than 2pm on Tues 12/24.

The specific items available for Christmas orders are listed below.

We hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Jenny

Christmas cake

Poinsettia cake

Frosted sugar cookie bars

Christmas Goodies

• buche de noel

• pumpkin roll (with or without toasted pecans)

• pecan pie (with or without bourbon)

• pumpkin pie

• dark chocolate cream pie (we’ll be offering only a limited number of these because they are difficult to make in bulk)

• key lime pie

• any of our cakes (if you like the Christmas Cake or Poinsettia Cake in photos above, order under All Classic Yellow or Chocolate and mention “Christmas Cake” or “Poinsettia Cake” under Special Instructions)

• any of our smaller items, such as cookies and cupcakes, BUT ONLY IN BATCHES OF 12 OF A PARTICULAR FLAVOR/BAKED GOOD (or in batches of 24 if ordering mini cupcakes)

For the smaller items, if you would like a wider variety, please consider stopping by the bakery on Tues Dec 24 between 8am to 2pm. We will be fully stocked with our usual items and we will work hard to stay stocked for as long as possible. We would suggest you come early though because we are likely to sell out quickly. Thanks! 

Friday March 1 – Saturday March 16

Annual Cupcake Sale!

Buy 6, GET ONE FREE!  But 10, GET TWO FREE!

Our cupcake sale is the perfect time to try every flavor! Believe it or not, my favorite is the yellow cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting. If I’m feeling wild and crazy, I sometimes add some rainbow sprinkles. Simple is sometimes best, right? Yum!

Scroll down to see our seasonal specials, including

King cakes for Fat Tuesday

Irish kickers for St. Patrick’s Day and

Hamentaschen for Purim

Enjoy!

Happy March!

Jenny

Start your order

King Cake

Irish kickers

IRISH KICKERS ARE BACK!

Just in time for the cupcake sale and St. Patrick’s Day, we’re bringing back our Irish kickers – a chocolate cupcake flavored with Guinness beer and frosted with buttercream spiked with Baileys Irish Cream and Jameson Irish Whiskey.

Hamantaschen!

HAMANTASCHEN!

We’re baking hamantaschen with apricot, poppy seed, nutella and raspberry filling throughout the month of March. 

So ON TO VALENTINE’S DAY and an excuse to infuse the bakery with lots and lots of COLOR, especially pink and red! Hopefully, this will keep our winter doldroms at bay.  Just think — we could be attending school in Madison, Wisconsin like my daughter is. The high there for today (Tues 1/29) will be 0 degrees and the low is expected to be -24.  Tomorrow’s supposed to be even colder with a low of -30.  Makes my whining about that brisk walk from the church parking lot to the bakery seem just a wee bit silly, eh?

Try to place your VALENTINE’S DAY orders in advance so we can be sure we can complete them, but we’ll also plan to have lots on hand for last-minute purchases.  

We’ll again have lots of color…

Champagne Cake with Raspberry Buttercream

Tiramisu for 2

Sweetheart cake

Heart cookies

and LOTS of chocolate!

Mint brownies

Triple threat cookies

Dark chocolate cream pie

Soft sugar cookies with buttercream frosting

We’ll also have heart-shaped cakes and lots of soft sugar cookies with pink buttercream frosting.

Place your order soon at jennycakesbakery.net!

FAT TUESDAY – Tues Mar 5!

Don’t forget to order your King Cake in advance!

ANNUAL CUPCAKE SALE – Fri Mar 1 to Sat Mar 16. Buy 6, get one free. Buy 10, get 2 free.

PURIM – Weds Mar 20 to Thurs Mar 21. We’ll have lots of hamentaschen on hand.

King Cake

Cupcakes!

Hamantaschen!

I always think of THE HOLIDAYS (Thanksgiving and Christmas) as that dreaded time of year when I, the embodiment of anxiety, constantly worry that we’re going to forget something, get something wrong, or otherwise disappoint someone during an important holiday meant for wonderful family memories. Most of the time we’re successful at making sure everything goes smoothly and tastes and looks good. Occasionally we aren’t and then I’m devastated and spend a lot of time worrying about why this happened and how to fix it. It just seems like there’s so much more at stake during the holidays!

Once we hit January, although I’m still worried about making sure customers are happy with what they order and purchase from us, I notice that I start to relax just a touch and that tightness in my chest eases up a bit. With this incredibly sophisticated psychological insight in hand, I’ve decided that, even though I usually think of January as the most “blah” and depressing month of the year, THIS year I’m going to think of it as a bit more care-free, easy-going, playful and maybe even creative, especially in contrast to November and December. It’s worth at least TRYING to change my outlook, right?

This month we say goodbye until next year to: pecan snowballs, jam thumbprints, frosted sugar cookie bars, gingerbread people, buche de noel, frosted pumpkin rolls and shortbread.

BUT, we say hello to my Aunt Val’s coffee cake, mint brownies, triple threat chocolate cookies, snickerdoodles and Boston cream cakes and cupcakes.

Then in February, we’ll bring back tiramisu (for 1 or FOR 2 because, you know, Valentine’s Day), mini dark chocolate pies (again Valentine’s Day idea), lots of frosted heart cookies and sweetheart cakes (4″ cakes with Valentine’s Day designs on them).

 

I know I say this every January, but THIS JANUARY I really am going to experiment with recipes for gluten-free cookies and vegan cookies. I know many of you with restricted diets are getting tired of just the cupcakes/cakes we offer, so I’ll work hard to expand our offerings. If you happen to have a recipe for either kind of cookie that you LOVE and are willing to share it with me, please feel free to email it to me at jenny@jennycakesbakery.net.

We continue to offer the HadiCakes, both at the bakery and online for special orders. If you haven’t heard of this effort before, the HadiCake is in memory of Hadi, an incredible kid who we were lucky to get to know through his amazing family and especially the posts of his mom Saira Sufi. Among many other things, he loved blueberries, rainbow sprinkles and Star Wars. So these are blueberry cupcakes with buttercream sprinkled with blue rainbow nonpareils with a silver star added on top. In celebration of Hadi, $1 from each cupcake will go to bethematch.org.

Also, stay tuned for a new round of Meet the Staff with some updates on current staff members and some new staff member entries. ?

Have a fun January and February!

Jenny