Sells out firstCountry sourdough
Wheat with a little rye, 36 hours from mix to oven, with a crackling crust
$8.50
Baked to order in one home kitchen, ready on Friday
Sourdough, cinnamon buns, cookies and celebration cakes, made in small batches by one baker in a registered home kitchen. Orders for each bake close on Wednesday at 20:00, and every bake has its allergens listed.
Wednesdayorders close at 20:00 for the Friday bake
24 loavesthe most one oven bakes in a day
14 daysnotice for a celebration cake
When to order and when to collect
There is one bake for bread and buns each week and a second one for cookies and loaf cakes. Once a bake is full, its products close until the next week, so ordering early is the surest way to get a loaf.
| Bake | Orders close | Collect | On the menu |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday bread bake | Wednesday, 20:00 | Friday, 16:00 to 18:30 | Sourdough, seeded rye, cinnamon buns |
| Saturday sweet bake | Thursday, 20:00 | Saturday, 9:00 to 11:00 | Cookies and lemon drizzle loaves |
| Celebration cakes | 14 days before | The day you choose, by arrangement | Layer cakes and cupcake boxes |
| Holiday weeks | Posted here a month ahead | Times move around public holidays | A shorter menu, announced early |
The kitchen closes for two weeks each summer and one week in winter, and those weeks appear on this table a month before they start.
This week's bakes
Add bakes to the bag before the order date above. Prices are per item, and the allergens for every bake sit in the table further down the page.
Sells out first
Seeded rye
Dark rye with sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds, best sliced thin
$9
Cinnamon buns, box of six
Soft enriched dough rolled with brown sugar and cinnamon
$15
Brown butter cookies, box of eight
Thick and chewy, baked on the morning you collect
$14
Lemon drizzle loaf
A whole loaf cake soaked in lemon syrup that cuts into ten slices
$18
Celebration cake
Layer cakes for birthdays and small parties, priced once the design is agreed
Price on enquiry
EnquireCollection is from the porch of the home kitchen, in the window shown on your order. Delivery within 5 km runs on Saturday mornings only, with the fee added at checkout, where a regulars' discount code can be used too.
A registered home kitchen, run by one person
Everything here is baked in a domestic kitchen that the local food authority has on its register and inspects just as it would a shop. Rules for selling food made at home differ by country, and often by region, so a home baker elsewhere may need a licence, a permit or only a registration before the first sale.
This is a one person kitchen. The same baker takes the orders, mixes the dough, scrubs the trays and hands over the boxes, which is why the menu is short and every bake has a limit. When illness stops a bake, every customer hears by email that morning and is refunded in full.
- Food hygiene training renewed every three years
- Kitchen used only for orders on bake days
- No pets live in the house
- Ingredients and allergens labelled on every box
Allergens, bake by bake
This is a home kitchen, not an allergen controlled one. Wheat, eggs, milk, soy, sesame and tree nuts are all used here, often on the same day, so traces can reach any bake. Please do not order if a trace could make you ill.
| Bake | Contains | May contain traces of |
|---|---|---|
| Country sourdough | Wheat and rye (gluten) | Sesame, milk, eggs |
| Seeded rye | Rye and wheat (gluten), sesame | Milk, eggs, tree nuts |
| Cinnamon buns | Wheat (gluten), milk, eggs | Soy, tree nuts, sesame |
| Brown butter cookies | Wheat (gluten), milk, eggs, soy | Tree nuts, sesame |
| Lemon drizzle loaf | Wheat (gluten), milk, eggs | Soy, sesame, tree nuts |
| Celebration cakes | Listed for each design in writing | Every allergen used in the kitchen |
Peanuts never come into this kitchen. If a supplier changes an ingredient, this table changes before the next bake, and food labelling rules differ by country, so the label on the box is the one to trust.
Celebration cakes, two a weekend
Only two celebration cakes leave the kitchen in any weekend, which leaves each one the hours it needs. Prices are starting points for a simple buttercream finish; colours, piping and toppers are agreed by email.
Six inch layer cake
from$55
- Three sponge layers with buttercream
- Vanilla, chocolate or lemon
- A short message piped on top
Eight inch layer cake
from$80
- Four layers with the filling you choose
- Fresh fruit or a chocolate drip finish
- Boxed on a cake board for the journey
Cupcake box
from$36
- Two flavours in each box
- Swirled buttercream in your colours
- Easy to share at the office
Half the price as a deposit holds the weekend once the design is agreed, and the rest is paid at collection. A cake cancelled less than five days ahead keeps the deposit, because the ingredients are already bought.
Off the kitchen table this month
Recent bakes, photographed on the day they were collected.
Notes from the Friday regulars (example reviews)
The sourdough has become our Friday ritual. Ordering on a Tuesday evening and collecting on the walk home is easier than any shop, and the crust is still crackling at dinner.
Our son has an egg allergy, and the allergen table told us at once which bakes were not for him. That honesty is why the whole family now buys its bread here.
The eight inch cake for our mother's seventieth looked exactly like the sketch in the emails, and the lemon filling was the first thing every guest asked about.
Before you fill the bag
Why do orders close on Wednesday?
The Friday dough is mixed on Thursday morning and needs a long, cool rise. Closing orders at 20:00 on Wednesday tells the baker exactly how much flour to weigh, so nothing is wasted and nobody is turned away at the porch.
Can you bake without gluten or eggs?
Not safely. Wheat and eggs are used in this kitchen every day, so a cake made without them would still carry traces, and a bakery with a separate controlled area is the better choice for that need.
Where do we collect from?
From the covered porch of the home kitchen, in the window shown on your order. The address comes with the order confirmation rather than on this page, because this is a family home.
What happens if a bake is cancelled?
If illness stops a bake, every order for that day is refunded in full and you hear by email before noon. Nothing moves to another day unless you agree to it.
Is a home kitchen allowed to sell food?
Here it is, once the council's food team has added the kitchen to its register and an inspector has visited. Rules differ by country and region, so anyone starting out elsewhere should ask their own local authority before taking a first order.
Do you sell at markets or to cafés?
Not at the moment. One baker has room for these customers and no more, and the weekly limits keep it that way.
Ask about a celebration cake
Tell us the occasion, the day you would like to collect and how many people the cake should feed. Describe the design in words, with colours and any message, and list every allergy in the group. A reply comes within two evenings, with a price and the date confirmed or another weekend suggested.
- Two celebration cakes a weekend at most
- Half the price as a deposit holds the date
- Allergens confirmed in writing before baking
Find the porch
Messages are answered in the evenings from Monday to Thursday, because the daytime belongs to the oven.
Message the baker
A registered home kitchen on a quiet street on the north side of town; the collection address comes with your order
Collection windows
| Friday collection | 16:00 to 18:30 |
| Saturday collection | 9:00 to 11:00 |
| Messages, Monday to Thursday | 19:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | Oven off |
A loaf kept every Friday
Regulars can keep a standing order for a Friday loaf, paid each month. Ask by email and the loaf is set aside every week until you say stop.
See this week's bakes