Early Bird Bakes

PASTRY SELECTION

It’s been a while since we’ve posted the whole pastry selection, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been working away in the background!
We’ll always have our old favourites but we update our specials every six weeks or so, so we get chance to try new things and follow the seasons.

We’re just planning our autumn specials. Let us know what you’d like next! We’ll probably ignore you and do what we want anyway, but it’s worth a try 😂

WE’RE TAKING A LITTLE BREAK!!

This week we’re taking a couple of days for the bakers to visit our good friends to see where the flour comes from!

It’s really important to us to stay connected to the land, to the farmer, and to the miller - and also to give our bakers the chance to look up from the mixers and the shaping tables to remember why we do what we do. So this is a little treat, a little escape and a little bit of learning all combined. We’re very excited!!

We’re away Tuesday to Thursday but that means we won’t have our usual prep underway, so we’ll be closed Friday and Saturday. The bakers will be there those days - but I promise we are definitely actually closed, so please don’t try to storm the building if you see them 😂

We ARE open on Sunday though. Hope to see you then - we’ll bake extra to make up for our absence 😀😀

(Also, a special mention to who’s staying behind like some neglected Cinderella to do some extra cleaning. Next time Becka, we promise x)

FREE PALLETS ANYONE?
Our flour is delivered on pallets and we have no easy way to return them. We have one pallet about every three weeks and would be very happy to find them a home.

Drop us a message if you’d like one - or even better if you’d like a continuous supply!

WE’RE HIRING A FRONT OF HOUSE PERSON!!

Our customers are the most important part of Early Bird Bakes - do you want to be the person who greets them and makes them feel special, smiles no matter what, and sends them away laden with baked goods?

We need someone who can work FRI-SAT-SUN 8.00-2.00 with potential for more hours/days as we grow.
We’d prefer someone who can do all three days, but if you’re available for just one or two, drop us a note and we’ll see what we can work out.

WARNING: it’s not all glamour and chat. The job also involves sweeping, and cleaning, and stamping bags with our logo. Many many bags.
If you can do all of that we will think you’re a superstar and feed you buns and pastries. We’ll also pay you.

Get in touch if you want to know more! DM or email [email protected]

Happy New Year from all of us at Early Bird Bakes!

2023 has been our first full calendar year and the most important thing I’d like to say is THANK YOU.

We’ve had an amazing year of making even more bread and pastries, growing our team, and loving our home on Buxton Road.

Thank you to everyone who walks through our door; it’s lovely to see the same faces each weekend - you are the ones who make us what we are - and it’s great to meet people finding us for the first time after hearing about us from friends. That’s what I always hoped we’d become - a truly neighbourhood bakery.

Thank you to the business friends we work with because they share the same values - the amazing .coffee and the perpetually fabulous neighbours who are . We love you both 💕

Most of all thank you to our wonderful little family:
You make us what we are. Well done team. We made it through Christmas with love, silliness and lots of caffeine. Thank you for all the reminders to eat something and DRINK SOME WATER 😂😂

Here’s to 2024. Happy New Year!

CHRISTMAS!!

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Christmas week! We’re open pretty much as normal this week - except that we’re expecting to be very busy.

If you’ve placed an order, it will be ready from opening time - not before then please as we will be scurrying around packing and trying to urge hot bread to cool faster.
We will wrap and pack your order, but it’d be a good idea to bring a strong bag if you have quite a lot to carry.

If you haven’t ordered, all is not lost! We will have some bread, pastries and savouries on the counter - as much as we can physically manage to produce - but the range might be more limited and there’ll be fewer of everything. Get to us early to have the best chance - sorry we can’t take any more pre-orders now.

See you this weekend 😀😀

IT’S OUR 1st BIRTHDAY ON SUNDAY….
…. And we’re planning something very special.

To celebrate I wanted to give something back to this amazing community who’ve made us feel so welcome, and so Sunday will be our first Charity Day.

ALL our proceeds will go to - proceeds, not just profits - so EVERY PENNY you spend will benefit them.

Samaritans are an amazing charity who do so much to help people in need of a listening ear, and it’s a cause very dear to my heart.
Many years ago at a dark point, I called their number and I still remember the kindness of the person I spoke to. They literally saved my life that day.

More recently I was privileged to be a listening volunteer for a time, and I can vouch for the hard work and genuine desire to help shown by everyone there.

So come in, buy some delicious bakes, and give to charity at the same time. Easy.

And in case this sounds too worthy 😂 we’ll also gladly accept birthday flowers, chocolates, cards, chocolates, flowers ….. or just your birthday wishes.
But also chocolates. It is our birthday after all.

Call SAMARITANS on 116123

CLOSED THIS WEEKEND

I’m really sorry but we’ve had to make the difficult decision that we can’t open this weekend.

Three poorly bakers and a heatwave have made it just too difficult to carry on. So we had a sit on the stairs and a think, and admitted defeat 😔

It’s not something we do lightly - no small business can really afford to lose a week’s takings - but the most important thing is we have chance to recover.

We’re all feeling a bit fed up right now, and we know lots of people will be disappointed, but please bear with us and we’ll be back next week.

In the meantime if you’re desperate, we did manage to get our wholesale baking done, so our bread is wrapped round lovely sandwiches as usual, and our pastries and cookies are at .coffee on Friday and Saturday

This is a cracking sourdough loaf. Even more so when you find out it was baked by our newest Early Bird Andy

Just a few weeks in. Pretty fine job hey? V proud of him 😀

CLOSED NEXT WEEK!
All the Early Birdies are flying away on holiday next week so don’t come and try to buy bread because there will be no bread, or pastries, or sausage rolls. Not even a single solitary cookie.

Back on the 14th with lots and lots though. See you then 👋

Behind the scenes during the filming by with ! Love how it all descended into just eating the sausage rolls 😂😂

Thanks for the pics 📷

The full video’s now linked from our page; hop over there if you’d like to see it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and thank you to everyone who ordered from us, queued patiently at opening time or popped in through the day.
I can’t tell you how much your support and encouragement mean to us for our first Early Bird Christmas.

Have a lovely time - and don’t forget we’re back open next Friday/Saturday if you’ve eaten everything by then!!

Merry Christmas Early Birders from Lynn and Sarah and Hezz xx

CHRISTMAS ORDERS!!
There are mince pies and stollen and cookie boxes for Christmas AND the chance to order your favourite pastries, bread and sausage rolls in advance.

We reckon we’ll quickly get to capacity, especially for Christmas Eve, so make sure you get your order in quickly to make sure you’re not disappointed. No fighting over the nana bears please 🐻

We can only cope with orders in person - and we’re asking for payment at time of order - so pop in and see us when we’re open.
And to those of you who’ve already ordered: thank you, and you can feel very smug indeed 😂

Oh and have you spotted our birdies have their hats on for Christmas? Thanks to for working their magic!!