Every year, on or about the Feast of St. Honoré, French bakers celebrate la Fete du Pain!  This year, it begins today, May 16, which is the feast day of St. Honoré.  Why this day you ask?  St. Honoré is the patron saint of bakers and pastry chefs.  Perhaps you’ve...

This year’s Mother’s Day collection is our largest ever, featuring decorated cookies, cookie cream tarts, cookie cakes, sandwich cookies, beverages and a full afternoon cream tea in our shop in Kentville.  We’re once again offering our Tea-to-Go boxes for an afternoon...

Today is the First Day of Spring!!Looking forward to warmer days, greener grass, birds chirping and flowers blooming.And not to mention spending more time with family and friends as we cautiously return to normal.I know we are looking forward to seeing many of you who...

Let's talk Butter.   We use a lot of butter. In 2021 we used over a ton of butter. 2035 pounds to be exact. That's a lot of butter!!   Our shortbread is always made with butter (except for a couple of plant-based varieties that we make by special order). Butter is the...

It is the 2nd Anniversary of the Grand Opening of our Shortbread Shop in Kentville. The very same week that we held that celebration, the WHO declared a pandemic. And we had to close down, regroup and re-invent. We kept going and you kept buying shortbread via our...

Did you hear? It's our Two Year Anniversary. We picked a pretty special week to hold our Grand Opening two years ago!! And you've been there with us through thick and thin. You've supported us and help us make it to this incredible milestone.   Now, two years into...

Before we started baking shortbread for fun and profit we thought about what we wanted our company and its products to stand for, to represent. We thought carefully about what kind of company we wanted to build.   Our philosophy is built on the values of previous...

In Grandma Mabel's kitchen there were huge bins for flour and sugar built right in. Giant bags of sugar and flour were delivered to her bakery and dumped into those bins. I never got to see that kitchen but I could picture it when Dad described it. Giant bags of sugar...