A series of posts during our Life in Quarantine!
(oldest at bottom, newest at top)

Update to update – Hadn’t focused on conflict between order pickups 8am to 11am but being open 9am to 5pm. So let’s change order pickups to 9am to noon each day. Thanks. Sorry for not focusing on this sooner. 

Update as of Sun 6/7
Believe it or not, this may be my last entry under Life In Quarantine because Montgomery County may be moving into Phase 2 this week!  We’ll see what happens.  

A few JennyCakes changes for the foreseeable future:

— We already have a lot of orders for June, so if you’re interested in placing an order with us, you might want to do that sooner rather than later.

— Until Phase 2 kicks in, we’ll continue to do order pick-ups Tuesday through Saturday from 9am to noon and we’ll have limited curbside pickup from 9am to 5pm. If you’d like curbside pickup, please give us a call so we can let you know what we have on hand.

— On Tuesday we will begin carrying our breakfast stuff again!  For as long as supplies last, we’ll have on hand scones, blueberry muffins and cheese muffins. You can also order them in advance on the website.

— Once it is announced that we are permitted to move into Phase 2, we will be open to walk-in traffic 9am to 5pm so long as you wear a mask and you’re super careful about maintaining the 6-foot distance.

— As we transition and remain understaffed, we will try our best to stay stocked in all items but you may find that sometimes we run out. Your patience on this is so appreciated! 

Once again, thanks very very much for all of your kindness and support during this stretch of time! 

Jenny

Update as of Sun 5/31

Some of my employees are thankfully coming back this week! A huge shoutout to my daughter, Lily, who has been an AMAZING help at the bakery but will be returning to Madison tomorrow. I’m really, REALLY going to miss her.  🙁
A few things for this week:
— Please continue to place your orders online.  All of the dates in June are open, except that I’ve had to close off CAKE orders only for this coming week (week ending on Sat 6/6) because we already have so many. But feel free to order anything else.
— Pickups will be TUES through Sat 8am to 11am.
— We hope to keep up the safer contact-free customer interactions. So please continue to call us when you arrive at the bakery parking lot with your credit card information.  Then we’ll place your goodies on the table out front for pickup.
— We’ll be offering the same items as last week but feel free to email me if you are interested in something that you don’t see there and we’ll see if we can make it.
Thank you so much for your kind support and understanding during this crazy stretch!
Jenny

 

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Update as of Sun 5/24
I hope you’re all hanging in there!  Please see Menu and Order for what we’re offering this week.
A few reminders:
— Pickups will be Weds (we’ve added Weds as a pickup day) through Sat 8am to 11am.
— When you arrive at the bakery parking lot, please call 240 388 9989 with your credit card information. We’ll place your goodies on the table outside for pickup.
— Please keep in mind that any cakes will need to be simple with just a message and sprinkles.
Thanks very much for all of your kind support.

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Update as of Sun 5/17
On to another week!  New goodies: cranberry granola cookies, cheese crackers, raspberry squares and peanut butter blossoms. We’ve taken tiramisu off the menu for this year and we’ve taken frosted brownies off the menu for this week.

Please order through the website. We’ll take as many orders as we think we can handle!

Pickups are between 8 and 11am this Thurs 5/21, Fri 5/22 and Sat 5/23.

The process for pickup and payment is the same as the last few weeks. Please call us at 240 388 9989 with your credit card info when you arrive at the bakery parking lot. Then we’ll place your goodies on the table out front for pickup.
 

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Update as of Sun 5/10
Happy Mother’s Day! For next week, I’ve again revised the website so it shows what we’re able to offer. We’ve taken a few things off but we’ve added the individual-sized strawberry shortcake cups and salted caramel cakes/cupcakes, and we’ll be making tiramisu again. 🙂

Please order through the website.

Pickups are between 8 and 11am this Thurs 5/14, Fri 5/15 and Sat 5/16.

The process for pickup and payment is the same as the last couple of weeks. Please call us at 240 388 9989 with your credit card info when you arrive at the bakery parking lot. Then we’ll place your goodies on the table out front for pickup.    

It’s still just my daughters and I doing the work at the bakery. So I still have to accept fewer orders than usual, and we still need to offer a smaller variety of baked goods than usual.

Also, since I’m doing all of the cake preparation these days and I have zero experience at doing that (being the make it yummy person rather than the make it pretty person), we still can only do simple cakes with a message and/or sprinkles.

At some point I need to find a way to truly thank all of you for your incredible kindness during this stretch. I so appreciate your orders and the wonderfully compassionate, patient, friendly and cheerful interactions we’ve had with all of you. Running a bakery is much, much harder than I thought it would be, but going through these last few weeks at the bakery has reminded me why I do it and how wonderful JennyCakes customers are! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Jenny  

 

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Update as of Mon 5/4 – Thanks for all your orders! My apologies but we already have to close off orders for this week because we have so many. However, depending on how far we get how quickly, there’s a slight chance we’ll be able to squeeze in a few more orders, so if you’d like us to add you to a waitlist, please email me at jenny@jennycakesbakery.net. Thanks. Jenny

Update as of Sun 5/3 – Mother’s Day at JennyCakes!

I’ve revised the website so that you can now see under the Menu and Order tab what we’re offering this week and place your orders through the website instead of by email. I think this will make things go more smoothly. Thank you so much for all of your patience while we figure all this stuff out!
We’ll be offering quite a few flavors of cakes, as well as 9″ key lime pies and quiches, cookie cakes, strawberry and banana bread, lemon bars, soft sugar cookies and chocolate chip, oreo and everything cookie balls. We’ll also have on hand for sale the 2.5# bags of flour if you want to add those to your order when you pickup (they aren’t on the website menu).
Orders will be available for pickup on Thurs 5/7, Fri 5/8 and Sat 5/9. I’m having trouble adjusting the time slots on the website but just know that regardless of what time you pick we’ll be open each of those days from 8-11am for pickups. 🙂
When we fill up on any particular day, I’ll block that day off and post something about that at the top of the homepage of the website.
Sorry so many details! Thanks to all of you for being so kind and supportive!
Jenny

Update as of 4/29: Thanks for all your orders! Orders are now closed for the week ending on Sat 5/2. For those of you picking up on Sat, feel free to come any time between 8 and 11am. I think the parking lot will get too congested if we try to stick with the original 9 to10am timeframe. Thanks!

Update as of 4/27:
For the week ending on Sat May 2, we will be offering the following items for pick-up on Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat between 9 and 10am. Stay tuned for info about the following week’s Mother’s Day sale. 

To order: Email me at jenny@jennycakesbakery.net.
To pay and pick-up:   When you arrive at bakery parking lot, call 240-388-9989 with cc info. Then we’ll place your goodies on the table outside for you to take home. 🙂  

TIRAMISU because I’ve missed it!  
Tiramisu for 1  $3.50
Tiramisu for 2  $7 

 

 

 

6″ simple cakes with message and/or sprinkles
Flavors:
Red velvet cake with traditional cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake
Yellow or chocolate cake with buttercream, chocolate, cream cheese, mocha or peanut butter frosting.
We can make any of those flavors into a pinata cake (the one with the candy inside) EXCEPT the carrot cake because it’s too moist to keep its shape if we carve out the middle.
6″ cake $28 (carrot is $35)
6″ pinata cake $40

 

Banana bread with or without nuts $4

 

 

 

 

 

Cookie balls: choc chip, oreo and everything  (in batches of 24 — $1 each)

 

 

 

 

Lemon ricotta cookies – another thing I’ve missed — $1.50 each

 

 

 

 

 

Update as of 4/22: Thanks so much for all of your orders! We will be closing off orders at this point so we can start working toward completing them all. 🙂 Jenny

New JennyCakes One-Day Sale this Sat 4/25!  See items we’re offering this time (list is below photos).  

To order: Email me at jenny@jennycakesbakery.net sometime before Thurs 4/23 to place your order.
To pay:   Call me at 240-388-9989 between 8 and 11am on Fri 4/24 to pay for your order by credit card.
To pick-up:  Pick-up at the bakery between 8 and 11am on Sat 4/25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Items offered (all can be ordered with lots of spring-colored sprinkles!):

• Simple 6” cakes ($28)
  Flavors: red velvet, or yellow or chocolate cake with vanilla, chocolate or coffee/mocha buttercream frosting.
  Since my daughters and I are doing all the work at the bakery these days and none of us is a cake decorator, these cakes will need to be simple and might not be as pretty as our talented decorators’ cakes but we guarantee they will be just as yummy as our usual cakes!
  We can add a simple message and/or sprinkles if you’d like.
  

• The new piñata cake filled with candy ($40)
  Flavors: same flavors as above flavors for simple 6” cakes.
  For the piñata cake, we cut two cake layers in half to make four layers. Then we cut a hole through the middle and fill it with candy that spills out when the cake is cut. Seemed like a fun option for youngsters and the young at heart!

• Cupcakes (min. of a dozen / $30 per dozen)
  Flavors:
  Chocolate or yellow with choc chip cookie dough frosting, whipped peanut butter frosting, or vanilla, chocolate or coffee/mocha buttercream
  Cookies and cream
  Red velvet
  German chocolate (while supplies last)
  Gluten free and vegan in chocolate and vanilla flavors (while supplies last)
  

• New Ferrero Rocher cupcakes ($3 each)
  

  Chocolate cupcake with hazelnut buttercream sprinkled with chopped hazelnuts and topped with a Ferrero Rocher candy.

• Cookie balls (sold in batches of 24 — $24)
  Chocolate chip
  Cookies and cream
  Everything

• Banana bread with or without nuts ($4 each)

• Bars (sold in batches of 6 — $12)
  Lemon bars
  Brownies
  Magic bars

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Week of Sat 4/11:
Update to the update!  We’re all filled up on orders for cupcakes, hot cross buns and cookie balls for pickup this Sat 4/11. Thanks very much!  We’ll hopefully have another sale in the next week or so. Stay safe and healthy!  Jenny

Update — JennyCakes will be offering a few items for pick up on Sat 4/11. See below!

So that we can minimize the risk to our staff and customers, the JennyCakes staff for this sale will be my daughters, Lily and Geneva, and me. Since we’ll have such a small staff, the selection of what we can offer is very limited and unfortunately does not include any cakes. We will take as many orders as we think we can manage! 

We will be wearing homemade masks and food service quality plastic gloves as we prepare the orders, and we will do all the other things that we know will minimize the risk, like LOTS of handwashing and LOTS of wiping down surfaces.

Here’s what we’ll be offering:

• Boxes of a dozen cupcakes — 3 yellow/choc, 3 choc/choc, 3 yellow/buttercream, 3 choc/buttercream.
  Options: Easter sprinkles/decorations, cheerful sprinkles/decorations, or no sprinkles/decorations. 
  Price:  $30 (I promise we’ll go back to the $27 discounted price once we get through this challenging stretch!)

• Bags of 24 cookies balls of a particular flavor.
  Options: chocolate chip, cookies and cream, everything and snickerdoodle.
  Price: usual price of $1.50 each for snickerdoodles and $1 each for the three others.

• Hot cross buns in batches of 6.
  Price: $2 each.

Schedule:

• Place orders by email to jenny@jennycakesbakery.net. 

• Pay for orders by credit card by calling 240 388 9989 on Fri 4/10 between 8am to 11am but if that window is tricky for you, feel free to call to pay on Sat 4/11.

• Pick-up will be on Sat 4/11 from 8am to 11am. We’ll do this a little differently from the Cookie Ball Bonanza pick-up. I plan to set up long tables outside the bakery and display on the tables each order separately (not stacked with the other orders) in alphabetical order by first name. You’ll arrive at the parking lot, find your order on the tables and take it home. Seemed like an even safer way to do it than handing the boxes to you with gloves on.   

Thanks for your patience with yet another sort of complicated procedure, but it seemed like the safest way to do it. Thinking of all of you as you go through this difficult time and really hoping you and your loved ones are healthy and stay healthy.

Jenny

 

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JennyCakes is currently closed until things with this virus calm down enough for us to safely reopen.

However, we hope to occasionally do special sales, such as the recent JennyCakes Cookie Ball Bonanza, so long as we can find a way to do them that is manageable and safe for us and also ensures we can keep our customers safe.   

When we do one of these, I will post something here on the website, on Facebook and on instagram, so stay tuned!

Thanks for all of your support and understanding during this tricky time. Please stay safe and healthy.

Jenny

Life in Quarantine — the JennyCakes Cookie Ball Bonanza!

   

JennyCakes is currently closed until things with this virus calm down enough for us to safely reopen.

But one thing we thought would be both fun and safe to do occasionally during this stretch would be what I’m calling a JennyCakes Cookie Ball Bonanza. Basically, we sell you the cookie balls and you bake them at home. See below for the process for participating in this. I’m hoping the process isn’t too much of a pain. I couldn’t figure out another way to do it so it’s manageable for us while making sure everyone stays healthy and safe. 

1. Place order for cookie balls by email on Thurs 3/26 and Fri 3/27.

Don’t worry if you didn’t see this in time to order. We’ll hopefully do this every once in a while until we’re finally able to reopen. I’ll always post something on instagram and facebook (like I did this time) when we plan to do it.  

Email address for orders:  jenny@jennycakesbakery.net.

Flavors available: choc chip, oreo, everything, peanut butter, snickerdoodle (sorry no GF or vegan flavors at this point)

If at all possible, please order cookie balls in batches of 24 (that’s what a ziploc bag will hold) but OK if 12 are one flavor and 12 are another flavor. If we do flavor amounts less than that, it will take us forever to package them all.

2. Call me at 240 388 9989 on Monday 3/30 between 9 and 11am or so, to pay for the cookie balls by credit card over the phone. Cookie balls are the usual price for our cookies — so $1 each.

3. Pick up the cookie balls at the bakery on Tuesday 3/31 between 9 and 11am. Call us at 240 388 9989 when you arrive and we’ll bring your order out to you.

Please stay safe and healthy!

Jenny