Treats and Gift Ideas, Ferndale Ice Festival, New Vegan Cookies

Holiday Treats and Gift Ideas

If you're looking to simplify this holiday season, we've got a wide variety of traditional and inexpensive gifts and treats. Our special Holiday Menu includes all of your old favorites, and some new twists, including decorated holiday cookies, hot chocolate kits with homemade chai, cinnamon, or peppermint marshmallows, shortbread cookie packs, sugar cookie kits, coffee cakes, breakfast baskets, Winter Wonderland cakes, and Sticky Toffee pudding. View and download our complete holiday menu here.

Vintage Clothing and Jewelry Trunk Sale

The bakery will be hosting a vintage clothing and jewelry trunk sale on Friday, December 5th, from 6-9pm. We'll remain open for drinks and snacks during the sale, and remember, parking is free on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Ferndale throughout the month of December.

Ice Festival Saturday, Dec 13

Ice sculptures, strolling musicians, fire jugglers, live bands, and hayrides are all part of this annual event in downtown Ferndale. We'll be open later, until 6pm, for the festival.

New Vegan Cookies

Come in and try our new vegan cookies. We currently have peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, oatmeal chocolate chip, and oatmeal ginger date pecan.

Thank You!

Thanks to all of you out there for your business and company this past year. We wish you all the best in the new year.

Our Fall and Thanksgiving Dessert Menu

Here it is, our fall and Thanksgiving dessert menu. Going to see the folks? Take along a pie! Your in-laws will love you! Our pumpkin cheesecake can bring a happy and quiet peace to any political argument that might spring up at your holiday table. And our Apple Brandy Cake is truly something to be thankful for. You can download this menu here.

PLEASE NOTE: The earlier you can place your order, the better. All Thanksgiving orders must be made by Saturday, November 22nd at 4pm. We will be open as usual on Wednesday, November 26 8am - 6pm for order pick-up.

The Pie Menu

Apple Pie -A traditional double crust apple pie using the freshest market apples tossed with all your favorite fall spices. Add some of your best vanilla ice cream for the perfect dessert. A 9-inch pie serves 8-10. $16.00

The classic Pumpkin Pie - A freshly made pie with touches of cinnamon, clove, ginger and nutmeg. Garnished with cinnamon cookie acorns and leaves. A 9-inch pie serves 8-10. $16.00

Maple Pumpkin Tart -A twist on the classic. A velvety pumpkin custard with real maple syrup baked in a cardamom laced tart shell and garnished with little leaf cookies. An 8-inch tart serves 8-10. $16.00

Not Your Everyday Apple Pie -Lots of Granny Smith apples tossed with brown sugar, cinnamon and a touch of dark rum, topped with cinnamon streusel and then drizzled with sweet caramel. A 9-inch pie serves 8-10. $18.00

Want a Different Type of Dessert?

Pumpkin Cheesecake -When you want to step away from the norm. A rich yet light pumpkin cheescake in a spiced gingerbread crust, topped with miniature gingerbread cookies. A 9-inch cake serves 10-12. $30.00

Apple Brandy Cake -A rich and moist apple cake with both fresh and dried apples and brandy baked in. We also provide a caramel sauce for you to serve warm on the side. A 9-inch cake serves 8-10. $30.00

Gingerbread Cookies -A half-dozen hand decorated fall gingerbread cookies packaged together. Pumpkins, squirrels, leaves and more. Great for kids and adults alike. $12.00 a box

French Pastries and the Ferndale DIY Festival

We're excited to be carrying French pastries by area pastry chef Cecilia Mercante. Trained at the Institut National de la Boulangerie Patisserie in Rouen, Normandie, France, Cecilia has built a loyal following from her booth Le Normandie in Detroit's Eastern Market, her work at The Lark in West Bloomfield, and the many classes she teaches throughout Southeast Michigan. Stop in to try her cream tarts, they are amazing to behold and delicious! You can find out more about Cecilia at and her creations at www.ceciliaspastries.com.


The Ferndale DIY Street Fair is coming the weekend of September 20-21. It's a free, 2 day event that features artists, hand-made crafters, musicians, groups and organizations, local restaurants, michigan brewers who live and work with a DIY attitude.

We'll be hosting a DIY (Decorate-It-Yourself) cupcake bar at the festival on Saturday. You can find out more about the fair (music, artists, vendors, food, parking, etc.) here at their website: diystreetfair.com. Hope to see you there!

The Happy Art of Carl Oxley III

Pinwheel Bakery will be showing new paintings by Hamtramck-based artist Carl Oxley III from mid-July through mid-August. The show kicks off with an opening reception on Thursday, July 17 from 5 - 9pm (as part of Ferndale's summer late-night Thursdays). You can find more information about Carl and his fun and happy art at his website: www.popartmonkey.com. The bakery will be selling special hand-decorated Oxley-designed sugar cookies for the event.

Pinwheel Bakery at Birmingham Farmers Market

Happy Summer everyone! Pinwheel Bakery will have a booth at the Birmingham Farmer's Market from June until mid-October. We'll be selling an assortment of just-baked scones, muffins, and coffee cakes, as well as cookies, brownies, bars, loaves of banana bread, and other treats.

The market is open every Sunday from June until mid-October from 9am until 2pm, weather permitting, and offers a wide variety of locally produced fruits and vegetables, flowers, live entertainment, kid's crafts, foods, and lawn art. It's located in city parking lot 36, North Old Woodward, just north of Harmon. You can find out more about the market at their official website here. Hope to see you there!

Mother's Day is coming, and Happy Birthday to Us!

Mother's Day is Coming Sunday May 11

If you're looking for some ideas or inspiration, we can help. What's Mom's favorite cake? Let us know what she likes and how you'd like it decorated, and we'll do the rest. Other ideas? Our Mother-Heart 'Tattoo' cookies will melt her heart, sweetly. We're also putting together special 1 lb. gift boxes of a variety of shortbread cookies, as well as smaller bags of treats. Stop in and look around and you're sure to be inspired.

Please remember that we're a small bakery that puts a personal touch on everything we do, so the earlier you place your order the easier it will be to guarantee we can meet your needs. And of course feel free to call or stop in if you have any questions.

Happy Birthday to Us!

Our first birthday is coming up on May 17th and oh my gosh, what a year it's been. Thanks so much to all of our great customers. We feel as if our family circle has grown ten-fold. We do appreciate all your ideas and suggestions. We've learned so much, and look forward to learning even more and sharing it all with you. To help us celebrate our birthday, we want to display pictures of our customers celebrating their first birthdays. Bring in a picture (originals will be returned). We'll hang them all up together and treat you to a cupcake. And do come in on Saturday May 17th to help us celebrate!

Easter! Spring!

Easter is early this year, and fast approaching. Come on in to see and sample our wonderfully decorated Easter cookies, cupcakes, and treats (like home-made peeps!), or to order a special something for a get-together with family and friends. Our abbreviated Saturday winter hours are now officially over and done with, and we are once again open until 6pm on Saturdays. Hope to see you soon!

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate...

Come and see what we've been baking for you and your sweetheart.

Mini take-out cartons of assorted heart cookies...

Valentine cupcakes...

Decorated sugar cookies...

Desserts for two... Pink marshmallows... ...and more!

For the month of February we are doing a special Valentine charity event. Come in the store and purchase a heart, write a message for a loved one, and hang it in our window. All money raised will be donated to the American Heart Association.