Paper Route Bakery

FREE COOKIES THIS WEEKEND!!!

Mmhmm, you heard correctly. The first 35 customers in line each day Friday-Sunday will get a free cookie, courtesy of Yelp], with the purchase of a slice of cake! Details below.

Over the last four years, y’all’s kind reviews and glamorous food pics on
Yelp] have helped Paper Route Bakery grow from a childhood dream to a full-fledged reality. This week, we were named on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in Texas list... in the number one spot!!! It’s, bonkers.

To celebrate, is going to hook up the first 35 customers each day Friday-Sunday (May 27-29) with a free cookie! To claim your cookie, all you have to do is enter Yelp’s “Deep in the Stomach of Texas” sweepstakes! It’s free to enter, and you could win $10,000. Show us proof of entry at the window and buy a slice of cake, and we hand you our world famous Chocolate Chip Milkshake Cookie alongside it. Sounds like a good deal to me!

We will be giving away one cookie per person, along with purchase of a slice of cake. Person must be physically present at the sales window to claim their cookie. Quantities are limited, so I’m afraid we will not be selling any cookies this weekend or reserving any cookies via pre-order.

Open hours:
Friday - 4 - 7 pm
Saturday - 11 am - 4 pm
Sunday - 11 am - 4 pm

Link to sweepstakes:

https://www.yelp.com/texasgiveaway?utm_campaign=deepinthestomachsweepstakes&utm_source=communityflyers

WELL BUTTER MY BUNS AND CALL ME A BISCUIT!!! Some truly crazy news today y’all. just released a list of the Top 100 Places to Eat in Texas, and Paper Route Bakery is not only on the list, WE ARE NUMBER ONE!!!

I mean, whaaa?!??

Seems to me that this is like, the People’s Choice Awards but for food, and we are dumbfounded, thrilled, and honored to win. Thank you, Austin, for receiving Paper Route with such warmth and enthusiasm over the past five years. Thank you to our customers who have written reviews online, who have bought cake slices to share with friends and neighbors, who have chosen a Paper Route cake to celebrate their birthday or retirement or baby shower or wedding.

We are a tiny little team of five individuals, working extremely hard day in and day out to create the best cakes we can dream up. We may not take ourselves very seriously, but we treat our work like it’s sacred. The pay off is that we get to share our art with you, our community, and so we get to participate in the joy, love, and celebration that surround us. This moment of recognition is just, well, icing on the cake.

Thank you for seeing us, Austin. Thank you for honoring us with this award, and

I don’t know what’s coming next for Paper Route, but I have a feeling it’s gonna be fun

PS: check out the full list on the Yelp website! a good number of winners are here in Austin and they are SO worth your time

MOTHER’S DAY CAKE GIVEAWAY!!

For Mother’s Day each year, my family drives to a little backroad about an hour east of Austin to pick wild dewberries alongside the railroad tracks. It’s, so much fun. When you first get out of the car, all you see is thicket. Wild, hungry, all-consuming thicket. The air is hot and muggy and peppered heavily with mosquitoes. You wade your way into a sea of brambles, holding your arms out by your sides. You pick a spot that feels right and you crouch down, staring blankly ahead in a single direction. You wait a couple minutes, and your eyes adjust, and suddenly in the midst of all that thicket, hidden in the shade of jagged leaves, you see... a berry. All at once, you see ten more. Then a hundred! Then a thousand, too many to count, the brambles baring forth an endless bounty of big, beautiful dewberries just for you.

Thank you Mom , for showing me how to look closely at things. For sitting patiently with me in discomfort and wilderness. For showing me the beauty and the joy and all the riches hidden in the thicket.

For this giveaway! Tag your mom, your aunt, your grandma, or any human being who has shown you maternal love, and take a moment to thank them for a lesson they taught you about life.

Both of you hit “follow” on Paper Route Bakery, and you’ll be eligible to win!

We’ll pick a winner tomorrow morning (Saturday, May 7), and both you and the person you tagged will be invited to come by this weekend for two free slices of cake - EACH!

Plus, we’ll have our new Seasonal Special this weekend, which I designed to evoke that experience of picking wild berries. Dewberries are hard to find in proper bulk, so I went with blackberry instead.

Introducing, the Blackberry Lullaby!

Blackberry chiffon cake with pine nut and cardamom crust, a blackberry ganache infused with toasted pine milk, sage, honeysuckle, and juniper, and a black tea Chantilly cream. With a dark chocolate pour-over on top, because, hey, my mom loves chocolate

We will also have six full-size 6” Blackberry Lullaby cakes available to pick up this weekend, which are up for grabs on a first come first serve basis! DM to reserve yours ASAP!

MOTHER’S DAY CAKE GIVEAWAY!!

For Mother’s Day each year, my family drives to a little backroad about an hour east of Austin to pick wild dewberries alongside the railroad tracks. It’s, so much fun. When you first get out of the car, all you see is thicket. Wild, hungry, all-consuming thicket. The air is hot and muggy and peppered heavily with mosquitoes. You wade your way into a sea of brambles, holding your arms out by your sides. You pick a spot that feels right and you crouch down, staring blankly ahead in a single direction. You wait a couple minutes, and your eyes adjust, and suddenly in the midst of all that thicket, hidden in the shade of jagged leaves, you see... a berry. All at once, you see ten more. Then a hundred! Then a thousand, too many to count, the brambles baring forth an endless bounty of big, beautiful dewberries just for you.

Thank you Mom , for showing me how to look closely at things. For sitting patiently with me in discomfort and wilderness. For showing me the beauty and the joy and all the riches hidden in the thicket.

For this giveaway! Tag your mom, your aunt, your grandma, or any human being who has shown you maternal love, and take a moment to thank them for a lesson they taught you about life.

Both of you hit “follow” on Paper Route Bakery, and you’ll be eligible to win!

We’ll pick a winner tomorrow morning (Saturday, May 7), and both you and the person you tagged will be invited to come by this weekend for two free slices of cake - EACH!

Plus, we’ll have our new Seasonal Special this weekend, which I designed to evoke that experience of picking wild berries. Dewberries are hard to find in proper bulk, so I went with blackberry instead.

Introducing, the Blackberry Lullaby!

Blackberry chiffon cake with pine nut and cardamom crust, a blackberry ganache infused with toasted pine milk, sage, honeysuckle, and juniper, and a black tea Chantilly cream. With a dark chocolate pour-over on top, because, hey, my mom loves chocolate

We will also have six full-size 6” Blackberry Lullaby cakes available to pick up this weekend, which are up for grabs on a first come first serve basis! DM to reserve yours ASAP!

WELP, tonight is the Tastemaker Awards, and I’ve been nominated for Pastry Chef of the Year! I am truly honored to be listed among such talented, hard working, and prestigious chefs (scroll to the right to see the full list!)

I’ve never called myself a Pastry Chef, because I didn’t go to culinary school, and lack familiarity with some of the fundamentals usually associated with that moniker. But, whatever it is I do (maybe we’ll call it baking), I take it EXTREMELY seriously, and have spent my lifetime learning from the craft. It means the world to be recognized by my community for my work in such a succinct and tangible way.

These are 5 things I love about baking, in no particular order.

1) It connects me to my family (who are all, incredibly talented chefs), and to my heritage. When my great grandmother immigrated to Texas from Ukraine in the 1890s, one of the only things she brought with her was a bread bowl for kneading Challah, carved from a single tree trunk. That bowl is currently in my parents’ kitchen, holding fresh oranges & pita chips.

2) The chaos of it all! People go to the gym to fight gravity, and even though it’s a losing battle, it makes them stronger. I come to the bakery to fight chaos, and I lose, constantly, but I am stronger for it.

3) The magic! I take grains & berries & flowers from the earth and grind them into powders & goops, and I mix those into a potion or a treat that makes people feel something. With intuition & the labor of my own two hands, I am able to imbue the dust of the universe with value, and If that’s not alchemy, I don’t know what is.

4) Baking has 1 quality that makes it kind of unique among the various forms of artistic expression: the final product is supposed to be something that people... enjoy. The imperative to create pleasure is a pretty tremendous constraint, and it forces me to be creative in a really specific and interesting way.

5) The people. Bakers tend to be grounded, hyper-competent, introspective empaths. They’re the kind of people you’d want on your life raft, and let me just say, I would sail the ocean blue with my Paper Route team.

With all my love, thank you Austin

For this months special we’re making CARROT CAKE!!!
And we shall call it, the Carrot Promenade!

We will have this cake available by the slice every weekend in April. AND, we are making a small number of 6” carrot cakes for pick up this weekend (happy Easter yall)! Cakes are $60 each and will be sold on a first come first served basis. DM to reserve yours ASAP!

Spiced carrot cake with a cinnamon pecan crust, made with orange and purple carrots harvested here in Texas (thank you !) Carrot ganache - infused with pecan, ginger, and whiskey. Classic cream cheese frosting all around.

It’s spring time, y’all! Make it official with a breezy stroll down the Carrot Promenade 👨‍🌾🥕🌿

I’d like to introduce y’all to our February special, the Dark Chocolate Strawberry Cabaret...

Chocolate feather fudge cake with a Black Onyx cocoa crust, a strawberry ganache infused with fresh basil and Fragola liqueur, fresh Organic strawberries, a thin spread of strawberry jam, vanilla bean chantilly cream, and a dark chocolate pour-over

Available this weekend and next by the slice ($12 each), alongside our regular selection of showstopper cakes

Take a bite and let yourself slip into something more comfortable.

(Cakes are sold first come first serve and may sell out, so hurry on by!)

The first photograph is by the incredible talented . The second photograph is by an iPhone and a thumb

Paper Route is hiring and we need YOUR help to find our next team member(s)! Please comment below and tag someone you know in the Austin food/beverage service industry! Even if they’re not looking for work, they may know someone who is!

Seeking super friendly, organized multi-tasker for Front of House! Monday-Friday 3:30 - 7:30 pm

Seeking cake decorator (experience preferred but willing to train!) for flexible part-time shifts Thursday - Saturday

Interested applicants should send their resume to us at [email protected]

Paper Route is a tiny, homegrown bakery operation, comprised of wonderful, generous, passionate human beings who work extremely hard to produce the best deserts we possibly can. If that sounds like a team you’d like to join, we can’t wait to hear from you!

This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to try our January special - the Chocolate Raspberry Limousine!

Chocolate feather fudge cake with a black onyx cocoa crust, a raspberry ganache infused with rosemary and , fresh Organic raspberries and a chocolate Chantilly cream on top

My mom makes me a chocolate raspberry cake for my birthday every year (love you mom!), and Lo and behold, it’s become one of my all-time favorite flavor combinations. This cake is equal parts dangerous and comforting, titillating and nostalgic. It’s a liminal flavor space where the tart zing of a fresh raspberry crashes brazenly into the bittersweet comfort of a chocolate shore. It tastes like growing up, like a peak behind the red velvet curtain, like riding to prom in a limousine.

Available by the slice (along with the rest of our signature cakes) 4-7 pm today and 11 am - 4 pm this weekend, or until sold out! See y’all sooon!

WE’RE BRINGING COOKIES BACK! One day only (December 23). Pre-orders only. Link in bio!

recently named Paper Route the BEST COOKIES in TEXAS! We are honored and also a lil bit flabbergasted - we had put a pause on selling cookies back in August, when we decided to focus our bakery exclusively on cakes...

BUT, clearly the people have spoken, and the people want cookies, so we will be doing a special round of our world famous cookies just in time for the holiday break! We will have all of our Paper Route classics available (chocolate chip milkshake, anyone?), as well as a few lesser-known recipes from the Paper Route vault.

Cookies are baked in small batches and may sell out, so place your pre-orders ASAP!

Thank you to our mega-talented friend for this beautiful photo and to for the award!

Introducing our new fall cake - the Apple Shawl !

Apple cinnamon chiffon cake (made with Cameo apples from Farwell, Texas) with a honey walnut crust, apple cider ganache infused with toasted walnuts and Cognac, and a molasses Chantilly cream

Take a bite and close your eyes. Let this cake take you away, to an apple orchard on an autumn afternoon. There’s a cool breeze, and the last light of the setting sun filters in through a canopy of branches. You cup your hands around a warm mug of apple cider and inhale the scent of cinnamon and comfort. A gentle nuzzle. All is well.

Available by the slice until Thanksgiving. See y’all soon!

Introducing our new fall cake - the Apple Shawl

Apple chiffon cake (made with Cameo apples from Farwell, Texas) with a honey walnut crust, apple cider ganache infused with toasted walnuts and Cognac, and a molasses Chantilly cream

Take a bite and close your eyes. Let this cake take you away, to an apple orchard on an autumn afternoon. There’s a cool breeze, and the last light of the setting sun filters in through a canopy of branches. You cup your hands around a warm mug of apple cider and inhale the scent of cinnamon and comfort. A gentle nuzzle. All is well.

Available by the slice until Thanksgiving. See y’all soon!

There’s an old saying here in Texas - It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.

Swipe right to see the cake in question - Madagascar vanilla bean chiffon cake with a whiskey barrel smoked sugar crust, Dulce de Leche buttercream, and a dark chocolate pour-over.

Thanks for this amazing review, L!

‘Tissss the season to be fall-y!
And what better way to celebrate than with our first ever seasonal cake flavor?!
Introducing - the PUMPKIN CARDIGAN!!

Pumpkin chiffon cake with a cinnamon and toasted pecan crust, pumpkin ganache infused with maple syrup and aged bourbon, and a chai spice Chantilly cream to top it all off

This cozy cake is available by the slice every weekend from now until Thanksgiving! Tag your local pumpkin spice fanatic and we’ll see you at the bakery :):)

Paper Route Bakery updated their business hours.

Paper Route Bakery updated their phone number.

*GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!*

YALL! We will have ALL NINE of our signature cakes available by the slice this weekend!

Lemon Kiss
Banana Pantsuit
Raspberry Carlisle
Coffee Fox
Strawberry Parade
Pistachio Oasis
Chocolate Fainting Couch
Vanilla Au Revoir

We have been working on these recipes for a long long time, and we are SO so excited to share them with y’all. To celebrate, we’re doing a giveaway!

Tag an Austinite in the comments below and tell us something you admire about that person! Maybe you know someone who did something courageous recently... or, their shoes are always clean... or, they know all the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody. Whatever the case may be, just tell us something good about this cool person you know, and you BOTH might win some cake!

We’ll pick a winner at random at midnight tonight, and both the tagger and the taggee will get a sampler pack of three cake slices! Available for pick up at our East Austin brick and mortar all weekend :)

PS: The cake in the photo is our Lemon Kiss! Lemon chiffon cake with poppyseed streusel, our signature lemon frosting infused with lavender and Limoncello, and a lemon Chantilly cream on top!

What’s the best cake you’ve ever had?!?

I’d be lying if I said we weren’t tryna be that cake.

Y’all! Meet Vanda! Vanda is a regular here at Paper Route, and is also just a one-of-a-kind human being who radiates joy and makes the world a better, brighter place. She started coming here soon after we opened our brick and mortar back in 2018, and her favorite has always been the milkshake cookie.

Vanda has a big, ebullient laugh and a contagious grin. She frequently stops by the bakery on her way home from a work out (she’s kind of, like, a fitness legend), and always ALWAYS has her nails done. Not just done, but DONE.

Vanda, thank you for your unwavering joviality and your generous smiles. You always brighten our window, and it’s an absolute pleasure to bake for you!

Vanda is pictured here with our blueberry jam pop tart

::: THIS JUST IN :::

Paper Route Bakery will officially reopen to the public tomorrow - Friday, April 23 - at 10:00 am. This long awaited reopening has been met with fanfare from across the globe. An anonymous Paper Route enthusiast has reportedly hired a group of live kangaroos to dress in 1920s flapper dresses and perform a choreographed swing dance in honor of the occasion.

At this very moment, the bakers are hard at work, zesting Meyer lemons, chopping fresh chives, and folding brown butter fudge into chocolate chip cookie dough. They are guided by hand written recipes, lovingly laminated and tacked to the wall, and by a soundtrack of golden oldies, along with which they sing unabashedly.

Paper Route will be open from 10 am to 8 pm tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday, with a full menu of scones and cookies. All are welcome; kangaroos encouraged.

::: BREAKING NEWS :::

Paper Route Bakery will be open tomorrow, Saturday, April 17, from 1 pm to 3 pm. There will be chocolate chip cookies with brown butter fudge, as well as amaretto sugar cookies with peanut butter fudge. These are known to Paper Route regulars as, “milkshake cookies.” Experts have deemed them, officially, ‘mouth-watering.’ One individual, who preferred to remain anonymous, described them as ‘hubba hubba.’ There will even be an old recipe from the Paper Route Bakery cookie vault - Lemon Meltaways.

Rumor has it there may also be cakes to sample from the new Paper Route cake menu. An uncredited source dropped mention of an orange cake with pistachio streusel.

Paper Route will be officially reopening next Friday, April 23. Freshly zested Meyer lemon glaze will be applied to golden-baked lemon blueberry scones.

Until then, this is your one chance to get that Paper Route good good.

See y’all sooooon!

Still got a couple dozen Valentine’s Day PASTRIES available for pre-order!! Lemon Blueberry Scones and Strawberry Balsamic pop tarts available for pick-up this Sunday, February 14 from 9 am - 3 pm!

Place pre-orders via our website, www.paperroutebakery.com

Paper Route is not officially open quite yet for 2021, but we’re getting our ducks in a row! Stay tuned for details - we’ll be doing a bit of hiring over the next couple weeks, and officially reopening shortly thereafter. I dunno bout y’all, but I CANT WAIT!

Still got a couple dozen Valentine’s Day PASTRIES available for pre-order!! Lemon Blueberry Scones and Strawberry Balsamic pop tarts available for pick-up this Sunday, February 14 from 9 am - 3 pm!

Place pre-orders via our website, www.paperroutebakery.com

Paper Route is not officially open quite yet for 2021, but we’re getting our ducks in a row! Stay tuned for details - we’ll be doing a bit of hiring over the next couple weeks, and officially reopening shortly thereafter. I dunno bout y’all, but I can’t wait.