Consider buying your holiday treats this year from a small business that uses locally sourced ingredients, is mostly organic, and makes treats that contain no trans fats. Our pumpkin pie is made with a whole spelt crust and local pumpkins from Mainsteet Organic Farm in Plain City! Our Apple pies have an amazing crumb topping and are being made with local sustainably grown apples we picked ourselves from Lawrence Orchards in Marion! Our Sweet Potato Pie is sweetened with agave nectar and comes in a whole spelt crust. We are looking for a local source for our sweet potatoes as well. Please stop in or call to pre-order your holiday treats!

3009 n. high st.

columbus, ohio 43202 

614.784.2253

xo sarah + pattycake

We had a great time and picked more than enough apples for the bakery and for ourselves to take home. There was also a sweet pony and goat that we made friends with.

If you are looking for an apple pie this holiday season made with local sustainably grown apples, please consider ordering your pie form us, 614.784.2253!

xo sarah + pattycake

xo sarah + pattycake

Sweet Tooth: Pattycake Bakery

By Tara Brewster

Published October 27, 2011

If you don’t think ‘amazing’ and ‘delicious’ when you think ‘vegan’ you probably haven’t tasted the goods from Pattycake Bakery. It all started when Jennie Scheinbach came up with a Chocolate Peanut Butter Heaven cookie that turned dinners and potlucks on their ears. Next came other traditional veganized favorites: chocolate cupcakes, blueberry muffins, a “Tollhouse cookie,” sticky-buns (an extremely popular treat that will be offered as take-and-bake for the upcoming holidays), and even a raw cheesecake. It’s not really a cheesecake (it’s made of fruit and nuts), but a decadent treat nonetheless and one that is actually good for you.

Scheinbach’s creations eventually found their way to the Clintonville Community Market, and as business grew, into their own storefront. So why vegan?

“It was just the right thing to do,” she laughed. “It’s about the compassion for other beings. We want to be compassionate and take care of each other.”

Scheinbach also talks about the benefits of veganism when it comes to the body and about how eating closer to the bottom of the food chain means you’re eating better. The vegan goods are lighter, healthier and less taxing on the digestive system, so you actually feel better after your dessert than you might after eating something that contains animal products or trans fats.

Being vegan has a few unique challenges though, since it excludes the use of butter, eggs, milk or any other animal products – traditionally, the good stuff.

“It’s surprisingly doable,” Scheinbach said. “It’s just a little more expensive since these products aren’t subsidized.” Often times the hallmark of a good baked item is the taste of real butter. Many vegans and non-vegans alike would argue that vegan goods actually taste better since the flavorful wheat and grains have an opportunity to shine when not muted by butter or eggs. Simple ingredients like toasted walnuts, oats and grains add a depth and nuance of flavor that makes Pattycake’s offerings a perhaps unexpectedly delightful.

The eco-friendly standards of Pattycake’s operation are part of its charm as well. Pattycake is committed to being as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. The treats are typically delivered by a bike cart (painted hot pink), packaged in recycled 100-percent biodegradable materials and packed in recycled beer boxes from the local co-op. They buy from and support other local businesses, and everything is recycled in an attempt to produce as little waste as possible. Their tiny (only 650 square feet) but efficient building was the first to be approved as a City of Columbus Green Spot, they won Baking Management’s Innovative Packaging of the Year Award in 2010, and they’ve received the SWACO Emerald Award for their eco-friendly business. Yet, Scheinbach says being totally vegan is the best thing they can do to have a beneficial impact on the community and environment.

This fall, shake up your traditional lineup with seasonal goodies from Pattycake; upcoming specialties include pumpkin and squash pies, apple pies, holiday ‘Solstice’ cookies and even pop-tarts. If you can’t make it to the bakery, you can find Pattycake Bakery just about anywhere in Columbus. Pick up the vegan sweets at the Clintonville Community Market, Raisin Rack, Weiland’s, Bexley Natural Market, Bexley Coffee Shop, Cafe Apropos, Crimson Cup Coffeehouse, Kafé Kerouac, all Cup ’O Joe/Mojoe Lounge/Stauf’s locations, The Hills Market, Impero Coffee House and Giant Eagle Market District.

Pattycake Bakery
3009 N High St.
(614) 784-2253
www.pattycakeveganbakery.com

Michael does all of our wholesale deliveries inside 270 with this cart! Keep you eye out for the next announched date of Market to Market. Here are a couple pictures of participates!

xo sarah + pattycake

xo sarah + pattycake

“Meet the p-cake all-stars” is  a new monthly write-up where we feature one of the amazing pattycake team. It is the amazing staff that are behind the scenes at the bakery that make all the magic happen.

Meet July’s All-Star, Jean Louise! JL has been working at the bakery since May 2010. She started out as a baker but quickly moved into management and has been the manager of pattycake since March of 2011. Her favorite pattycake treats are the Chocolate Cupcakes and the Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. JL always wears wooden shoes and might be the funniest person to ever work at the bakery. Thanks for all your hard work!

xo sarah + pattycake

xo sarah + pattycake

‘Green’ honor would be icing on the cupcake
Wednesday, May 4, 2011  01:02 AM
By KEVIN PARKS
ThisWeek Community Newspapers

BY ADAM CAIRNS/THISWEEK
(Top) Owner Jennie Scheinbach recently learned that her business, Pattycake Bakery, 3009 N. High St., was nominated for a SWACO Emerald Award for its green operation. The bakery specializes in vegan and organic cakes, cupcakes and cookies. (Bottom) Using biodegradable terraphane bags, recycled paper labels and vegan glues, Shannon Barnette packages Marry Me Muffins.

When Pattycake Vegan Bakery became simply Pattycake Bakery a few years ago, it didn’t cease to be a vegan bakery.

The business just no longer had a name that automatically constricted the customer base.

“It turned off more people than it attracted,” owner Jennie Scheinbach acknowledged. “We’ve found if we can get it in their mouths, we’ve got them.”

The change in name not only didn’t change the vegan nature of the operation at 3009 N. High St., a short walk from Scheinbach’s Clintonville home, it also didn’t at all alter the mindset she had in opening the bakery six years ago this month — namely, to sell sweet treats that are dairy- and egg-free and to have as modest an impact on the planet as possible.

At first, it wasn’t all that easy being “green.”

Now it’s easier, but more expensive, Scheinbach said. The availability of compostable, biodegradable and recyclable materials has increased, but they do add to the cost of doing business, she said.

It’s a cost Scheinbach said she’s willing to bear.

“You’re paying now or paying later, like globally,” she said last week. “I feel willing as a business to pay that cost so my children and the community at large don’t have to later.”

Paying that cost paid off in September 2009 when Baking Management magazine presented Pattycake Bakery with an “Innovation Award” for the packaging used for the treats sold at the store and other outlets.

“For us, that was huge,” Scheinbach said last week. “I feel really proud of it.”

The Clintonville bakery is now in the running for another environmental honor, a 2011 Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio Emerald Award. Pattycake Bakery was nominated in the small business category by marketing director Sarah Bryant.

“The idea of ‘waste’ is almost foreign to Pattycake Bakery,” Bryant wrote. “Strong recycling and composting efforts result in no more than one household container of trash per week. Other ‘green’ initiatives include the reuse of cardboard beer boxes to pack wholesale orders, the use all-natural glue for attaching company labels (printed with soy ink on 100-percent recycled paper) and the delivery of all central city orders via bike. In addition, most of the staff arrives to work on foot, by bus or by bike. Internally, Pattycake uses entirely ‘green’ cleaning products, compact fluorescent lighting and compostable cups, plates and bags that dissolve within 90 days. The bakery was one of the first businesses approved as a city of Columbus Green Spot.”

Scheinbach, who termed the other nominees in the category “awesome,” said the winner of the honor won’t be known until the SWACO Emerald Awards luncheon on Tuesday, May 17, at Ohio State University’s Ohio Union.

“I’m a sweets person,” Scheinbach said of what led her to create Pattycake Bakery. “I’ve been baking since I was a kid. When you make it yourself, it tastes better.”

What would become Pattycake was launched in the Tibet Road kitchen of Scheinbach’s mother shortly after Scheinbach graduated from college with a degree in sociology. She was planning to pursue a Ph.D. in order to teach and do research, but had a new baby and a 4-year-old at the time and didn’t want to leave them, so she turned to baking to bring in some money.

After about eight months, Scheinbach said, she began to see the need to expand.

“There’s only so much you can do in a home oven,” she said. “I just could not keep up. It was either quit or move out of the house.

“It just seemed like this was working, why not keep trying?”

When a deli and carryout opened on North High Street in a former hairdresser’s shop, Scheinbach said that she gave it six months.

“That’s going to be my space,” she recalls telling herself.

When, as she had predicted, the business failed, Pattycake Bakery moved in.

“It just was right from the beginning,” she said.

For Scheinbach, the goal in running Pattycake Bakery, aside from turning a profit and taking care of the 13 or so employees, is to have the “smallest carbon footprint you can get.”

“Any time we have extra money, I’m thinking about how can we ‘green’ things,” Scheinbach said.

xo sarah + pattycake

me, isa, and jennie

pattycake team members sara provenzale and christine creagh

Other awesome local businesses that participated include our friends at Wholly Craft, St. James Tavern, and Betty’s, to name a few. We had a great time and all the teams combined raised $12,126 dollars so far! If you would like to donate please visit our pattycake team website.

xo sarah + pattycake