Brimfield Bread Oven

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Pretzels
Sharing Cart
No Pizza 9/14, Closing at 3pm (for an employee party)
Current Specials
Updated Bake Schedule

Pretzels!

It's Oktoberfest month and that means pretzels. Starting today, we will have pretzels on Saturdays around 12pm through the rest of September (and maybe into October for a week or two). We also will be sneaking some pretzel croissants out there (every day?) so call or stop by in the mornings to snag one of those while our pretzel making stuff is at hand.

Sharing Cart

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Our sharing cart is back (the red cart). Bring your garden's excess produce that you can't possibly eat or store to share with others in the community. Anyone is welcome to take and enjoy any produce you see there. It's a great way to reduce waste and for everyone to eat like royalty. The cart is usually located either just inside the door by the counter or sometimes we put it outside by the door when the bakery gets too full. No bakery purchases or interest is required to enjoy this cart :)

No Pizza 9/14

We will be closing early at 3pm, Saturday 9/14, for an employee party, so there won't be a pizza night that day. Get your fix tonight before we take a night off. Our special for this month is a white sauce, red grapes, prosciutto, a dash of fresh mint leaves, and fresh mozzarella, asiago, romano and parmesean cheeses.

Current Specials

-BLT Sandwich (probably through the end of September, while tomatoes last)

-Pesto Tomato Sandwich
-Cinnamon Streusel Babka (babka will be coming to an end soon, stay tuned for what's next)
-Harvest Squash Bread returns Wednesdays only (butternut squash, pumpkin seeds, golden raisins and dried cranberries)
-Sourdough baguettes / baguette au levain (Saturdays)
-PUMPKIN Scones
-Lemon shortbread, vanilla shortbread
-Cinnamon "buffins" (donut muffins)
-Plum Almond Danish
-Killer Brownies (brownies with caramel and chocolate ganache)
-Apple Pie begins next week (starting Wednesdays)
-Take and Bake Cinnamon Buns (Thursdays late morning until sold out)
-Biscuits
-Cream Puffs (Fridays only)
-Saturday night 4-8pm pizza special is a white sauce, red grapes, prosciutto, a dash of fresh mint leaves, and fresh mozzarella, asiago, romano and parmesean cheeses pizza (call 330-474-7800 anytime to order pizza on Saturdays)

Updated Bake Schedule

We've really been enjoying our new oven and there are some big perks we've found in the past month or baking. One of those is that we have been able to bake all our overnight sourdoughs first thing in the morning before we open. It's safe to say this is great for everyone to have bread earlier.

Here's our approximate current bake schedule, keeping in mind things are slightly different day to day based on size of bake and also that we're humans.

Ready at
OPEN:
Country sourdough, multigrain sourdough, harvest squash sourdough (Wednesdays), cranberry walnut sourdough (Thursdays & Saturdays), Oatmeal raisin sourdough (Fridays), Kalamata olive sourdough (Fridays), Vollkornbrot (Thursdays-Saturdays)**
Croissant and danish of all types
Cookies and scones
Biscuits (Saturdays)
Focaccia (usually right around open)

9-10:30am:
Simit (Turkish bagels), French baguettes, rustic rolls, epi de ble, french batards

10:30-11am:
Miche

11-12pm:
Sandwiches, pepperoni rolls, veggie rolls, cheddar sticks, pretzels,

12-1pm:
Buns, pullman, honey spelt

**Bread still needs about 2 hours to cool, so we begin slicing bread around 10am and beyond :)

With Gratitude and Love,
Genevieve & Jud

Pretzels Today!! Closing Early 9/14 + More Updates Click here for an update from Brimfield Bread Oven!

We tried an experiment today and got the bake done incredibly early. Everything is out of the oven now (!!!) except Pullman because they need more time to proof 🙌 🥖 ❤️ Cloudy days are especially good for bread and cookies. ☁️ 🍪

Baguettes are looking great this morning! Come visit us at the shop today or at to grab some awesome breads to go with all your garden tomatoes. I love this time of year!!! We have BLT sandwiches and basil peso sandwiches ready now to grab for your day out.

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Delayed today, but it's happening :)

Baking has begun!

We figured out the problem (a sensor thought the oven got too hot yesterday and prevented it from turning on this morning). We reset it and, voilà, it works. We have croissants out now (photo is of them today!) and French breads are up next. I'll live post what's coming out as we bake today, so check our stories on Instagram and Facebook for updates. Thanks again for understanding. We're so excited to be back.

With Gratitude and Love,
Genevieve & Jud

Up and Running :) Click here for an update from Brimfield Bread Oven!

Update: update 2: after a delay, we are up and running full speed ahead. I’ll post where we’re at in stories 🙂 As of 10am, croissant and danish are all baked. We have fresh cookies and scones, quiche, take and bake pizzas, a few buns, more coming fast. (Baguette and focaccia up next)

Green light: we will be OPEN tomorrow, Wednesday 7/31. I’m so impressed and grateful for our wonderful team who managed to accomplish so much over break. We removed 37,000 pounds of brick and concrete that was our old oven, cleaned, cleaned, cleaned, fixed some things in the space and installed this beauty. She’s baking like a dream. Come grab some goodies tomorrow and get a free coffee or tea with any order (all day, 7/31).

Yard sale at the bakery, right now (9am-1pm) today, Saturday 7/13. Come out and get some sweet deals or make offers of our fun stuff. ☀️

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Oven Party Details
Saturday Shop Note
Reminder: We're closed for July

Let's Send Off Our Oven In Style

We are throwing a big, free, pizza party tonight. Here's some details to know before coming:

When: Tonight, Saturday 6/29, 4pm-8pm ish

Where & Parking Info: This party is at the bakery, duh! We will have parking all around the building and our extremely kind neighbors at the Brimfield Store-All are allowing us to park cars in their grass lot across the street (assuming it doesn't get too wet). See map below for a visual.
Note: To get into the grass lot across the street, you have to drive all the way to the south end of the lot, where the curb disappears to get up on the grass. Please don't drive over the curb :)

What: Free pizza party for the community since this is the last thing our oven will do before it gets swapped out for a new one. As a SURPRISE, we are also bringing our baby mobile oven out of retirement for the event (complete with Harrison cooking pizzas with her), so we will have "dueling" wood fired ovens cranking out pizzas and two pizza stations (one inside and one outside) to get your munch on.

BRING: something to sit on outside (camp chair, blanket, etc.). You are also welcome to bring any fun yard games you have. We plan to put corn hole out and whatever else I can dig out of my garage.

Activities: Besides the yard games, we will also have a table inside and a table outside that's got paper, pens and jars on them. We would love if you could write some memories or well wishes down for us to keep in one jar. In the other jar, we will be collecting notes of things we wish to let go of and we will be burning all those notes at the end of the night (we won't read these, so feel free to write anything you want on them).

The Weather: We are hoping it clears up tomorrow by pizza time, but this party will happen rain or shine. Wear something to be outside in. The bakery is of course open as well, but I know we will run out of space and end up partying in the grass. It's going to be a blast.

Saturday Quick Note

Today is looking completely maxed out with orders since it's our last day before break. We will not be taking any more orders so everything will be first come, first served for our bread and pastries today. Thanks for understanding.

Closed for all of July

Remember, 6/29 (today) is the last day we're open until we hopefully reopen 7/31. We will keep our website and social media updated with progress reports and will send an email when we're reopening for sure and if we have any test breads for you to try.

Mark your calendar for 7/13 when we will have a bakery yard sale at the shop. It's going to be fun! I'm estimating we will be there 9am-1pm :)

With Gratitude and Love,
Genevieve & Jud

OVEN PARTY TONIGHT (Free PIZZA!) Click here for an update from Brimfield Bread Oven!

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Father's Day Specials
Oven Announcement
Closed all of July
Other Current Specials

Father's Day Specials

We will be open on Father's Day!

Special Hours:
Sunday, 6-16-24: OPEN 8am-1pm

Items we will have for Father's Day will include lots of Croissant and Danish (including pretzel croissants), Pretzels, Pretzel Dogs, Chocolate Whiskey Tarts, Pecan Bourbon Tarts, Vanilla Fruit Tarts, little Funfetti Cakes, Pepperoni Rolls, Veggie Rolls, Cheddar Sticks, Simit Bagels, Killer Brownies, Cookies, Scones and probably a couple more things. Since we're only open a half-day, we will NOT be making Bread or Sandwiches, so please grab that during our usual hours Wednesday-Saturday. Quiche and unbaked Cinnamon Buns will be stocked Friday-Saturday, so come early for those since they're the kind of thing you want to have at home ready for Sunday morning.

We have online pre-ordering ready for Father's Day pickup only at www.bbo-curbside.com. If you would like to shop before Sunday, we will be taking orders over the phone as usual and have lots of good things ready for walk-in service every day this week (though the bulk of the specials (tarts, pretzels) will be for Sunday only so it's super fresh).

We will NOT be doing drive through this time, so please come inside to pick up your order. We aim to have an order pickup counter for quick service in the morning and another checkout for picking up orders and adding on if you want any extras.

NOTE ON PICKUP TIMES: We are coming in at 4am to prep all the sweets and treats so most items should be ready first thing at 8am. Bagels, pretzels and savory snacks may come out a little after open (probably by 10am for the last items). Feel free to give us a call if you are wondering if everything is ready.

Oven Announcement

We are saying a warm goodbye to our beloved wood fired oven at the start of July and installing a new (gas) oven. This is not a decision we made lightly, but have been moving towards for a while.

The biggest factor for replacing the oven is that our current one needs major repairs that will essentially involve taking apart most of the oven, replacing the hearth and much of the arch, while also deconstructing and rebuilding part of the chimney to fix the dampers. (None of those things will be easy.) While we were exploring repairs and realizing that we would essentially have to tear the face off and destroy much of it it to rebuild it anyway, we began thinking more widely about the oven that would be best for us now, in general.

We could rebuild the oven/repair it, but we are also limited by it these days (which is a great thing!). The holidays are so fun but also crazy trying to fit in so much extra items into our limited 12 hour per day bake window. This led us to explore ovens with more capacity and we concluded that we can get a bigger capacity oven that takes up less space and went with a Polin oven (it's an Italian company). Making this decision is very bittersweet and it was more complicated than I'm describing, like, we have children and would also love more family time.

I cannot state enough how much we have LOVED baking in our wood fired oven. These years have been so incredible and we have no regrets. I would do it again. It is a wonderful way to bake bread for your community and we encourage anyone who wants to work with a wood fired oven to go do it. You can bake anything in these ovens. Figuring it all out is an art and working with wood and fire is good for our spirits.

Jud posted a video explaining what's going on and you can check it out, along with an additional video about why on the front page of our website. It's also on Instagram if you're on there

We will continue updating and sharing fun oven history and facts over the next couple of months, so make sure to peek at our Instagram and Facebook occasionally if you find that fun. Check below for our schedule and closure dates during this time.

Closed for all of July

Because of the oven swap, we're going to be closed all of July. Please stock up early and I expect things to keep getting more busy as the month goes forward. We will announce via email and on social media when we are reopening for sure as we all know construction sometimes doesn't go as planned.

We do hope to also surprise announce some test bakes with the new oven in the last week of July, so stay tuned on social media and email for some opportunities to get goodies early (for free or a discounted price).

Fun random thing in July: We're also hoping to have a yard sale of some extra stuff we have laying around at the bakery and our house (axes, clothes, toys and lots of miscellany). Expect that to be either 7/13 or 7/20 here at the bakery. A bunch of our team will participate so there should be some awesome stuff.

Other Current Specials

-Totally RAD(ish) Sandwich
-Chicken Bacon Ranch sandwich
-Strawberry Streusel Babka
-Deli rye (Wednesdays)
-Lemon shortbread, vanilla shortbread
-Cinnamon "buffins" (donut muffins)
-Lemon curd & berries danish
-Cream puffs (Fridays only)
-Saturday night 4-8pm pizza special is my ultimate favorite: basil peso & mozz with an lemon sesame arugula salad post bake (call 330-474-7800 anytime to order pizza on Saturdays)

Happy Father's Day!

Genevieve & Jud

Father's Day Specials // Oven Announcement // CLOSED all of July Click here for an update from Brimfield Bread Oven!

As rare a sighting as the Aurora borealis sighting was this weekend, we have our pretzels 🥨 today AND pretzel croissants. They’re going to go fast, so come soon. (We’re open 8am-1pm today)

We’re open today 8am-1pm. We have some lovely things here, including this triple chocolate cake with edible flowers 🌺 Happy Mother’s Day.

Mother’s Day online store is open. (Link in bio). We will be open special hours for Mother’s Day 8am-1pm with tarts, lots of croissant and danish, pretzels and more! The big difference this year is we will not have any bread or sandwiches, so stock up on that before Mother’s Day. 🌸💕 www.bbo-curbside.com

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Mother's Day Specials
Other Current Specials

Mother's Day Specials

We will be open on Mother's Day (YAY)!

Special Hours:
Sunday, 5.12.24: OPEN 8am-1pm

Items we will have for Mother's Day will include lots of Croissant and Danish, PRETZELS, Tarts, little Cakes, Simit Bagels, Strawberry Shortcake, Cookies, Scones and probably a couple more things, like some kind of Bundtlette. Since we're only open a half-day, we will NOT be making Bread or Sandwiches, so please grab that during our usual hours Wednesday-Saturday. Quiche and unbaked Cinnamon Buns will be stocked Friday-Saturday, so come early for those since they're the kind of thing you want to have at home ready for Sunday morning.

We have online pre-ordering ready for Mother's Day pickup only at www.bbo-curbside.com. If you would like to shop before Sunday, we will be taking orders over the phone as usual and have lots of good things ready for walk-in service every day this week (though the bulk of the specials will be for Sunday only so it's super fresh).

We have our usual tarts this year: lemon curd and blackberry, basil pastry cream with strawberry and chocolate espresso mousse with cinnamon. We will most likely have the passionfruit curd with toasted meringue, but it's taking a minute to get that in so I didn't want to sell it online when it's not totally set in stone. We also have Genevieve's favorite: strawberry shortcake. We are making extra croissants (especially chocolate and pretzel) and will have hopefully a lot of extra more than what is listed online (first come, first served for the extra croissants).

We will NOT be doing drive through this time, so please come inside to pick up your order. We aim to have an order pickup counter for quick service in the morning and another checkout for picking up orders and adding on if you want any extras.

NOTE ON PICKUP TIMES: We are coming in at 4am to prep all the sweets and treats so most items should be ready first thing at 8am. We usually have a line first thing, so if you're not in a hurry, coming later will be faster. We do expect to be lightning fast, though :)

We also have some items available now for shopping before Sunday morning. Our breads make amazing dinner sides if you're cooking for Mom any day this weekend. We have cookies, cirtus scones with earl grey icing, quiche and more right now. We will also have babka, which make for a nice sweet breakfast/brunch bread and those are ready Fridays, mid-afternoon (3pm ish?).

Other Current Specials

-Totally RAD(ish) Sandwich
-Chicken Bacon Ranch sandwich
-Chocolate Nutella Babka
-Lemon shortbread, vanilla shortbread
-Cinnamon "buffins" (donut muffins)
-Strawberry rhubarb danish
-Cream puffs will be returning after Mother's Day (Fridays only)
-Saturday night 4-8pm pizza special is a Mexican special for Cinco de Mayo: cilantro cream sauce, onion, tomato, jalapeño pepper, sweet corn, black beans, lime juice, cheddar cheese and sriracha mayo (call 330-474-7800 anytime to order pizza on Saturdays)

Happy Mother's Day!

Genevieve & Jud

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Beautiful (week old!) flowers are bringing us joy on this rainy day. We just stocked up with new bouquets today so this can be your home… maybe without a basket of baguettes in the background, but hey, if you feel that, we got you. We have lots of bread and cookies on the shelf today 🥖 🌸

Eclipse cookies today ☀️ 🌕

Saturday sandwich glory. Pics by 📸 Also, have you placed your Easter online orders yet?

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Easter Hours & Ordering
Specials

Easter Hours & Ordering

Our hours will be the same as usual next week except for closing early on Saturday 3/30.

OPEN Hours:
Wednesday 8am-5pm
Thursday 8am-5pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday 9am-5pm*

We will be closed for pizza on 3/30 to allow us to make more lovely breads and sweets for all your Easter orders. Thanks for understanding!

We have brought back the online ordering system for holiday ordering for Easter weekend. You can head on over to place your order at www.bbo-curbside.com. There are two pickup dates: Friday and Saturday, so make your selection when it asks you what "Location" you want to pick up at. (You can click the address in the upper left corner under our logo also to check the day for pickup). We will close the online orders about a day before pickup, so it's best to get your order in soon. Everything will be first come first served once we sell out online.

You will notice that not everything we make is on the preorder form. This is because we don't know what else we can squeeze in until very last minute, so we can't take orders for those items. We do plan to bake as many of our usual things as we can (snacks, breakfast items, fancy things in the cooler).

For pickup, we're planning to have everyone come inside early or later on during each day and then do the drive though in the middle of the day Saturday for the busiest times. Feel free to come inside anytime to add to your order and see what other items we have.

If you have trouble ordering online, feel free to call us 33-474-7800 and we can also assist you over the phone placing your order.

Pro tip: Wednesdays are usually pretty chill here and I'm going to be adding the most extra bread that day since we have the most room, so it's the best time to come if you want to avoid a crowd.

Specials

-Hot Cross Buns through Easter. We have them pretty much daily right now.
-Deli rye is still on WEDNESDAYS only and we plan to keep it like that for a while
-Totally RAD(ish) sandwich (avocado, veggie sandwich!)
-Chicken bacon ranch sandwich
-Oatmeal Cream Pies (leaving after Easter)
-Decorated sugar cookies (we have some adorable Easter themed ones right now and we're working on some cute paint your own ones for the kids for next week)
-Triple chocolate cherry cookie is leaving after Easter, chocolate brownie cookies are coming back after that
-Spanish vanilla cake is here right now
-Probably this week only, we have a lemon curd and fruit danish
-Pistachio danishes are still here for spring
-Strawberry streusel danishes are also still on the menu
-Take home and bake cinnamon buns are available Fridays (and sometimes Saturdays).
-We have brownies this week and probably next week also, just for fun.

Happy Spring!

Warmly,
Genevieve & Jud

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Easter online preorder system will be up next week, sorry for the delay. In the meantime, we baked these lovely hot cross buns for you to enjoy today and tomorrow.

We have deli rye today, baked by the incredible . Say goodbye 👋 to the chocolate cherry stout sourdough this week and say HELLO to Hot Cross Buns today. They’re in the oven soon, ready to sell by about 2pm today.

February pizza special: roasted garlic, extra virgin olive oil, fresh mozzarella, prosciutto, dried figs and a honey drizzle 😋 Bob is the fire master tonight and we have a guest appearance of next Saturday 🔥

We have some sharp looking country sourdough today.

Valentine’s 2024 spread 💖 I forgot to mention in our last post we also have the chicken bacon ranch sandwich back starting today. Veggie sandwich is switching next week.

Happy Valentine’s Day! We have heart breads, including the new chocolate cherry beer bread, decorated cookies, rose tarts, chocolate espresso tarts, red velvet whoopies, triple chocolate cake and more today in the shop. We love you!

We have some Valentine’s Tarts in the case today. Which is your favorite: rose cardamom or chocolate espresso mousse? Besides tarts, we also have triple chocolate cakes, decorated heart cookies and special danishes all weekend. Treat your Loves and we hope that includes yourself, too. 💕🤍💖

*NEW* Wednesday special bread by ! This is a sourdough chocolate cherry stout beer bread and we can’t get enough of it. Spread a generous slab of sweet cream butter on this, take a bite, close your eyes and live in the moment. Happy almost Valentine’s Day 🤍🩷❤️

Red velvet whoopie pies have landed and they’re out of this world. 🤓 Come grab them from the cooler that’s also loaded today with other goodies including take and bake pizzas, take and bake cinnamon buns, cranberry tarts, sandwiches, quiche and more 💖

’s sugar cookie weather predictions are on point. We are stocked full of bread and sweets and croissants if anyone is leaving the house today. ❄️❄️❄️ Be safe out there 🤍

Merry Christmas from your friendly, neighborhood bakers! We are open today until 4pm and have lots of bread, cookies, bagels and more out now ready for you. Friendly reminder today is the last day to shop before we close for 2 weeks for our baker vacation. We will be back Wednesday 1/10 and energized as ever. Happy Holidays to all of you!

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Christmas Hours and Ordering
CLOSED for Baker Break 12/25-1/7
Holiday Shop / Specials

Happening right now: the last pizza night of 2023! (We will be back for pizza service 1/13/24). Give us a call 330-474-7800 if you would like a pizza tonight (4-8pm). The current special is butternut squash, caramelized onions, sage, goat cheese and roasted garlic.

Christmas Ordering

We have brought back the online ordering system for holiday ordering for Christmas weekend. You can head on over to place your order at www.bbo-curbside.com. There are two pickup dates: Saturday and Sunday (yes, we will be open Sunday), so make your selection when it asks you what "Location" you want to pick up at. (You can click the address in the upper left corner under our logo also to check the day for pickup). We will close the online orders about a day before pickup, so it's best to get your order in soon. Everything will be first come first served once we sell out online.

You will notice that not everything we make is on the preorder form. This is because we don't know what else we can squeeze in until very last minute, so we can't take orders for those items. We do plan to bake as many of our usual things as we can (snacks, breakfast items, fancy things in the cooler).

For pickup, we're planning to have everyone come inside early or later on during each day and then do the drive though in the middle of the day for the busiest times. Feel free to come inside anytime to add to your order and see what other items we have.

If you have trouble ordering online, feel free to call us 33-474-7800 and we can also assist you over the phone placing your order.

Bakery Schedule for Christmas Week (and beyond)
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: OPEN 8am-5pm
Thursday: OPEN 8am-5pm
Friday: OPEN 8am-5pm
Saturday: OPEN 9am-5pm, (NO pizza because we will be baking for orders)
Sunday: OPEN 9am-4pm

12/25/23-1/7/24 We will be CLOSED for our baker vacation. Please stock up on bread this week if you would like any during break :)

Pro tip: Wednesdays are usually pretty chill here and I'm going to be adding the most bread that day since we have room, so it'll be a great day to get your extras for the freezer.

Holiday Shop / Specials

T-SHIRTS: We have new baseball tee's, regular shirts and SWEATSHIRTS in the shop in all sizes right now.

Holiday Staff Gift Shop: We are selling awesome crafts and cool items made by our staff. 100% of the sale goes to the person who made the item. Feel good supporting our team's creativity! Things are in a great price range for gifts since there's no markup (besides sales tax).

Menu Specials:
-STOLLEN
-Hummus Veggie sandwich
-Italian sandwich
-Ginger Molasses Spice cookies
-Decorated sugar cookies
-Cookie boxes (large or medium sized)
-Nougat, panforte and brittle hopefully this week
-Hot chocolate mix
-Vanilla cake, cranberry curd with whipped cream
-Hot chocolate danish
-House made marshmallows

Thank you, always.

Warmly,
Genevieve & Jud

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We are stocked with just about everything right now. We have cookie boxes, nougat (!), bread, art, croissants, and this lovely yellow cake with cranberry curd and whipped cream. Also, the online Christmas Ordering shop is live. Link in profile to order for next weekend 🌲⭐️🎄♥️

We are open today 9am-8pm with loads of tasty sandwiches on our focaccia. Currently our types are the Italian and the Hummus Veggie. Pop by while you’re out shopping Small Business Saturday ♥️ Also, our phones seem to be acting up today. We’re doing our best to get them online again but there’s definitely a connection issue. Feel free to email us if you need anything and can’t get through. 💫