If you love your baked goods as much we do, you’ll be excited to hear Sweet Thea Bakery is hosting a Pop Up Shop at 4305 Main Street for the upcoming holiday season. If you’ve attended any artisan markets and Christmas craft fairs around Metro Vancouver, you will no doubt seen them. But, of course, due to the pandemic we all know that many of these in person events are not happening this year. But the good news for us is that Sweet Thea Bakery is offering their delicious baked goods at their Pop Up Shop on Main Street. Some of the goodies you will find there include their delish Ginger Cookies, Chocolava Cookies, Honey Hearts, Chocolate Lebkuchen Cookies and Stollen. If that isn’t enough, they have curated some of their market favourites for their Pop Up Shop for you to purchase while picking up some baking. Some of these include maple syrup, roasted nuts, small batch bean to bar chocolate bars, honey, hot sauces, jams and mustards. Perfect gifts for the food lover or well, just you. If you can’t make it to their Pop Up Shop, we have more good news. They are offering Canada Post deliveries, or pick up at 3 different locations – Main Street Pop Up, Tsawwassen Quay Market (must be taking a BC Ferry to access) and their Langley Shop. To place your order, visit them online at Sweet Thea Bakery or stop by their Pop Up Shop at 4305 Main Street which is open 11:00 am to 6:00 pm most days, but is open till 7:00 pm on Fridays. Treat yourself and your family to some amazing baked goods while at the same time supporting a local business.
What Is Christmas Without Cookies?
20 Nov
One of our favourite parts of Christmas is the cookies, whether, eating, making or baking. To us, Christmas would not be complete without cookies. Not only do they taste great, look beautiful, but they also make a great gift. For those that don’t have much experience with baking, we invite you to check out some upcoming cookie baking classes being offered by The Uncommon Cafe. They are offering a Decorate & Bake class on two dates. First up is Sunday, December 3rd at 1:00 pm where you can spend the afternoon baking or December 13th at 6:00 pm. Cost is $45 for adults and $5 for kids. Now on the other hand, if you want to get a group of friends together to bake and do a cookie swap, but don’t have the space, The Uncommon Café has the space, supplies and happy to accommodate. Contact them directly for more information.
Now if you wish to teach your kids some baking skills, we’ve recently learnt about a great little spot on Fraser Street, The Bittersweet Kitchen. They have 2 Kids Holiday Baking Classes coming up this December where kids learn to bake from scratch. One class is being offered on December 16th and this one is all about the cookies, making and decorating. The second class being offered on December 17th teaches kids how to make homemade granola and cinnamon buns. The classes are from 10:00 am to 11: 30 am and cost $40 per child.
Now if you don’t bake, or like to might not have the time to do all that you want, in East Van we are fortunate to have an array of great bakeries that will be sure to help you stock up a few favourites including Fratelli Bakery, Blackrook Bakehouse, Breka Bakery and Italia Bakery. We are fans of Brekka Bakery for the German slant on their baking. If it’s gluten free you are after, East Village Bakery and the Gluten Free Epicurean and if you are seeking vegan baking, check out Fairy Cakes on Fraser Street. Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t Uprising Breads off Commercial at Venables. These are just a few local favourites that can help make Christmas delish and festive.
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Sweet Pop Up Shop at les amis du FROMAGE Saturday May 24th
22 May
Les amis du FROMAGE is hosting another delicious Pop Up Shop this Saturday, May 24th from Noon – 5:00 pm at their Strathcona location, 843 East Hastings Street. This time they have invited The Salty Cookie Company and The Lemon Square to showcase their baking talents. This is a great opportunity to show your support for these new local businesses. The Lemon Square makes handmade lemon squares with fresh lemons, butter and a dusting of coconut. Very addictive! The Salty Cookie Company is the brainchild of Meredith Kaufman who has been a pastry chef for many years. Come out and support these budding entrepreneurs!
Photo Credit: The Lemon Square
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