real food, no shortcuts WHAT WE BAKE WITH

Our ingredients

Five things go into nearly every cake we bake. None of them come from a catalog. All of them have names you'd recognize from a farmer's market.

What's actually in our cakes

Real food, honestly sourced

Five core ingredients make up the spine of nearly every cake we bake. None of them come from a wholesale catalog you've never heard of.

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European butter

Vermont Creamery and Plugrá.Higher butterfat (~84%) than standard American butter, which means richer crumb and a cleaner flavor. We don't bake with margarine. Ever.

Sourced from Vermont & Texas creameries
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Farm-fresh eggs

Mill King Farms in Granbury.Pasture-raised, picked up twice a week. We crack every egg into a clear bowl first — it's old-school but it catches a bad one before it ruins a batch.

From a single farm, 78 miles away
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Local wildflower honey

Round Rock Honey.Texas wildflower honey, raw and unfiltered. The flavor changes slightly with the season, which means our signature glaze does too. We consider that a feature.

Hand-jarred 35 miles from the bakery
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Unbleached flour

King Arthur and Central Milling.Organic unbleached all-purpose for most cakes; cake flour where we want a finer crumb. No bleach, no bromate, no preservatives.

Always organic, always unbleached
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Seasonal fruit

Whatever's in season locally.Strawberries from East Texas in spring, peaches from Fredericksburg in summer, apples from Tyler orchards in fall. We don't bake with frozen fruit.

Rotates with the calendar
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Real chocolate

Valrhona and Guittard.70% dark for our chocolate hazelnut, 38% milk for finishing drizzles. We melt our own — never use chips or candy melts.

Imported & American craft chocolate
Things you won't find in our pantry

What's not in there

The list of things we don't bake with is almost as important as the list of things we do.

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    No artificial flavoring

    If a cake says "vanilla," it was made with real vanilla bean or pure vanilla extract — never imitation.

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    No preservatives or stabilizers

    Our cakes go stale on day 4. That's not a bug, that's the point.

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    No artificial coloring

    The pinks come from beet powder, the yellows from saffron or turmeric, the greens from matcha or spinach. (Yes, spinach.)

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    No bleached flour

    Cheaper, faster to bake with, and not what we use.

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    No high-fructose corn syrup

    Honey, real maple syrup, brown sugar. That's it.

Fresh baking ingredients laid out: butter, eggs, flour, honey
give credit where due

Our farm partners

Real names, real people, real farms. The folks whose work makes ours possible.

Mill King Farms

GRANBURY, TX · 78 MI

Round Rock Honey

ROUND ROCK, TX · 35 MI

Sweet Ridge Berry Co.

TYLER, TX · 92 MI