Happy Holidays from Pinwheel Bakery!

Cardinal Cookie 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 marshmallows, shortbread cookie packs, coffee cakes, cookie and breakfast trays, Winter Wonderland cakes, our new line of French macarons, and Sticky Toffee pudding. Come in and see all our new cookie designs, including cardinals, snow globes, snowflakes, christmas trees, and more! View and download our complete holiday menu here.

Window Display Detail Ice Festival Saturday, Dec 12 Ice sculptures, strolling musicians, fire jugglers, live bands, reindeer, hayrides, and a five city trolley are all part of this annual event in downtown Ferndale. We'll be open later for the festival as well. Come in and warm up with a cup of our hot chocolate. We use real ground chocolate with cinnamon and fresh ground nutmeg, all topped with a homemade marshmallow or fresh whipped cream. More info on the festival can be found by clicking here.

We Have Cookie Trays Vegan Treats In case you haven't noticed, we have a growing assortment of vegan offerings, including the best vegan brownies around, and our new Ginger Molasses Cookie. Give them a try, and let us know what you think. ..And 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.

Christmas week hours: Sun 10 - 4 / Mon 8 - 6 Closing 3pm Christmas Eve Re-opening Dec 29 www.pinwheelbakery.com Pinwheel Bakery Flickr Gallery

Our 2009 Fall and Thanksgiving Dessert Menu, and Macarons!

Hello again from Pinwheel Bakery!
We have a cornucopia of desserts and treats for you this Thanksgiving season. They're a perfect way to make an impression and win over judgemental in-laws at upcoming family gatherings. And though we can't promise that our Maple Pumpkin Tart will resolve any political differences that arise at the dinner table this year, it will at least help get everyone to agree to put off arguing til the 4th of July picnic.

PLEASE NOTE: The earlier you can place your order, the better. All Thanksgiving orders must be made by Monday, November 23rd at noon. We will be open as usual on Wednesday, November 25, 8am - 6pm for order pick-up. We will be closed Thanksgiving day and the day after.

The Pie Menu

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

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. $18.00

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. Turkeys, squirrels, leaves and more. Great for kids and adults alike. $14.00 a box

Enchanted Macaron Forest

Macarons!

After all the requests we've received lately from customers, we're bringing back our macarons. We're starting out with just a few flavors, but we'll be adding more. We love our macarons, and we know you will too. Come in and give them a try, and let us know what you think.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Tricks and Treats

We're scaring up all kinds of fun things at Pinwheel this Halloween - lots and lots of decorated ccokies, home-made marshmallow bones, scary cupcakes, and whoooo knows what else? Zombies on the Nine October 15 This month's third Thursday event in downtown Ferndale is all about Halloween. There will be a Zombie Walk to benefit Gleaner's Food Bank, and lots of other activities and specials hosted by local businesses. More information can be found by clicking here. We'll be hosting a sugar skull craft where kids (and grownups) can decorate their own sugar skulls. No Dinner Til You Finish Your Sundae Help us finish off our summer supply of gelato, now half off until its gone. Flavors still on the menu include Double Chocolate Chocolate, Caramel Apple Spice, Tahitian Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, and Cinnamon Cappuccino. Other News We're now serving Republic of Tea products, including a variety of teas and 2 flavors of chai (regular and pumpkin spice). We're also really excited about our new vegan Maple Spice Sugar Cookie. Crispy, soft, and melt-in-your-mouth maple-y. Come in and give it a try.

Gelato and Extended Hours for Summer

Ahhh, Summer in Michigan

Gelato Summer Treats

Our State Motto: Great Lakes, Great Cakes! We have gelato! The frozen treat options in downtown Ferndale just got a whole lot sweeter, and just in time for summer. We're happy to announce that we'll be serving a variety of gelato and sorbets through the summer season. Our top-quality, creamy smooth gelato is made right here in Michigan by the Palazollo company of Saugatuck. They carry over 600 flavors, and we'll be changing them out throughout the summer. Come in and tell us your favorite! Currently we're serving Tahitian Vanilla, Milk Chocolate Couverture, Caramel Cafe, Strawberry, Profiterole (Cream Puff), Chocolate Hazelnut Giunduja, and Lemon Lime and Wildberry Sorbets. Extended Summer Hours More good news. We're staying open later (9pm) throughout the summer on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Stop in for an after-dinner dessert or a cool refreshment on a warm summer night

Spring Greening

Pinwheel Bakery at VegFest 2009 Join Pinwheel Bakery at this year's VegFest at Ferndale High School on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 5pm. Presented by VegMichigan, this year's guest speaker is longtime vegan and former Detroit Piston John Salley. There will be door prize drawings throughout the day, and plenty of information on vegan and vegetarian foods. We'll be joining a number of other local vendors with lots of free samples and items for sale. Come and try our new vegan cookies and muffins, including our Apple Muffin, Sunshine Muffin, Cocoa Spice cookies, Oatmeal Raisin cookies, Peanut Butter cookies, and more. Advance ticket prices are $7 for adults, $3 for students, children 6 and under free. Admission at the door is $10 for adults, $5 students. There are also discounts available for VegMichigan members. Click here for more info on VegFest.

Coconut Flake Bird's Nest Cupcakes Going Green (with Salads) We've added 3 new salads to our lunch menu: Asian Salad - Fresh greens, red cabage, carrots, snow peas, and toasted almonds with our home-made orange ginger sesame dressing. Spinach Salad - Fresh spinach, grape tomatoes, goat cheese, cucumber, and home-made croutons with our own balsamic herb vinaigrette. Green Salad - Fresh greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, red peppers, homemade croutons, with our home-made yogurt-herb dressing.

Valentines Day Treats

Skulls 'n' Swirls Sweets For Your Sweetie Valentines is just around the corner (the day after Friday the 13th - go figure). Stop in before the big day and pick up a treat for your sweet. We're making some bumpy-cakes-for-two, cupcakes-for-two, decorated heart cookies, and other desserts for this special day of love and romance. Valentine's Day is on a Saturday this year - remember that we're only open until 4pm on Saturdays!

Not mean, just misunderstood Site Improvements Pinwheel Bakery now has it's own photostream on flickr.com. You can browse the photos or slideshows of the variety of things we have to offer, or you can do a tag search to view something more specific, like wedding cakes, for example, or decorated cookies. It's a nice place to visit to see some of the things we've been working on lately. You can visit our flickr photostream main page by clicking here.

Pinwheel Bakery Video ModelDMedia is a weekly e-zine and web site focused on Detroit and the surrounding area, telling the stories of its development, creative people and businesses, vibrant neighborhoods, and cool places to live, eat, shop, work and play. They put together a video story about Pinwheel Bakery in their latest issue. Have a look: