Chunk Bakery

08/09/2024

CRAFT CLUB🧶✂️

Local to Leeds and looking for something to do as the nights draw in? Looking to meet people but don’t want to spend 💰💰?

We’re starting our very own FREE craft club!

Happening the second Thursday of every month, we’re testing a drop-in style club from 7pm-9pm. Turn up anytime, bring a project you’re stuck on or a craft you’ve been wanting to start and join likeminded people for a chat and a cookie.

It’ll be run by Anna (you’ve probably been served by her at the shop as our emergency barista) and Lauren who I befriended because she stalked us so many times at Meanwood market. They’re friendly faces and as the group grows we’re hoping to make a whatsapp group so new members can have a buddy (it’s daunting turning up to a new club by urself), and a walking taxi so people don’t have to walk home alone 💛

It’ll be totally unstructured to start with as we’re just testing it out! ie. It’s not a class or workshop

If you don’t have a craft but still want to be involved feel free to bring a book and cosy up in the corner, it’s open to everyone 🫶

Please note cookies and cold drinks will be available to buy but the coffee machine won’t be on! So feel free to bring any drinks/snacks

10/08/2024

A chance to join the team! We’re looking for a front of house person to take orders on our Square till system, serve pastries, clear tables, wash up, help with making drinks, and actively look for tasks to keep the shop spotless during quiet periods🫧

Someone hardworking with great personal skills would thrive in this job as our beautiful bakery will be yours to look after during the day! Coffee experience is preferred, but if a candidate comes along with passion and the right attitude it’s not essential.

If this sounds like you we’re eager to hear from you! Please drop us an email with a CV

06/08/2024

If the world is sitting a little heavy on your shoulders right now you’re not alone.

If you feel shocked and appalled at the violence, racism, genocide, domestic terrorism, hate, and transphobia (to name a few) that’s been happening over the past 10 months, 10 weeks, or 10 days you are not alone.

If you also feel guilty that you have the privilege to go about your daily life while people are subjected to such abhorrent treatment you are not alone.

If you feel frustrated at what you can do to help, and feel like anything you do is just a drop in the ocean you’re also not alone.

This week we’ll have coloured tags around the shop where you can write a message of support, spread some love, or just to write down how you’re feeling, on your way out please feel free to tie them onto the railings outside of the shop.

We’ll also be putting up posters with links to sources where you can keep informed and up to date- people to follow, pages to support, charities to support, and fundraisers to donate to. I’ve started a list but if anybody knows any of the above that I could include in the posters please drop me a DM it would be much appreciated.

It’s not much, and it still fees like nowhere near enough, but at least it’s something, and surely it’s better to bring the community together and spread some love and positivity instead of hate.

26/07/2024

Everything you need to know about opening weekend 👇

Firstly, look out for the big white and orange shop opposite our old one, I haven’t decided what to do about a sign yet so we don’t have one. And please stop calling it ‘the brown shop’, I rlly don’t want to be known as the massive 💩 coloured shop and its orange anyway not brown🥲

Secondly, we have lots planned, so read on for free cookies, special guests, and new menu items ‼️🚨

🍪We’re giving out FREE boxes of our brand new cookies to the first 10 customers on both Saturday & Sunday. That’s 80 cookies up for grabs this weekend🥵
🥐We’ll have croissants as usual from the amazing along with pistachio croissants, mango croissants, and strawberry cruffins😍
🌸We’ll be doing our very own viral flower cup carriers- get any hot drink and a posy of flowers for £5
☕️From around 11am on Sunday we’re honoured to have visiting, we’ve religiously used their drinks blends since opening and cannot wait to have them with us. We’ll even have some new chilli chocolate blends to try on the day which we’re super excited about😍 🌶️

We’ve also just launched a giveaway with which you can gain extra entires for in person on Sunday, head to our last post to see all the details!

For once I can say I’m actually really proud, we’re so in love with this shop, and just can’t wait to show you it in person and celebrate it this weekend 🥹

📍174 Kirkstall Hill, LS4 2SX
SAT & SUN
9am-3pm

23/07/2024

ARE YOU READYY

We are now CLOSED all this week and will officially reopen at our new site at 174 Kirkstall Hill THIS SATURDAY yes that is 4 days away hahaaaa panik

And what better way to announce our opening date than a few before and after pics from our first lil shop 💛

I couldn’t post photos of the new shop and ruin the surprise could I. Then there’d be no point in coming down at the weekend

So pls come down to see it at the weekend, we’ve got lots planned this and will be announcing all the details soon!!!🌸

SAT 27TH/SUN 28TH
9AM-3PM
📍174 KIRKSTALL HILL

09/07/2024

Saturday marked 6 month birthday!! so obviously we celebrated with cake

It’s been such a privilege to work with such an amazing group, to see how well supported they are by the local community, and to witness how much they’ve grown in only 6 months!

You guys have made us feel right at home in Burley by dropping in after your Saturday runs and I couldn’t recommend a more lovely running group to join

They’ve got loads of runs, hikes, and socials planned for summer so visit to get involved!

09/07/2024

Win 12 cookies, INCLUDING 3 BUENO!!!! 🎉 enter through the post below!

COMPETITION // WIN 3x boxes of CHUNK COOKIES’ best-selling cookies! 🍪🤤

Gooey, chewy and just downright delicious, baked goods don’t get much better than CHUNK cookies. And we’re giving you the chance to win not one, not two, but three boxes of their tastiest ones!

Bag this prize and you’ll get 12 of their cracking cookies – 4x choc fudge, 4 x Bueno, 4 x s’mores and 4x Biscoff! We’re drooling just thinking about them…

Here’s how to enter: ⬇️⬇️

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The competition will run until 11:59pm on Tuesday 16th July 2024. You’ll be contacted by direct message on Facebook if you’re a winner.

What are you waiting for? Get your entries in now!

For more details and T&Cs, click the link in our comments.

07/07/2024

We’re at Ilkley today with !!

Mum will be on the grove stocked with lotsss of our OG cookies until 3pm🍪🙂‍↔️

19/06/2024

A pic of Diego’s birthday cake!! he asked for a chocolate cake but without the sponge🤨 so I made a vegan chocolate sponge, filled and topped with extra thick dark chocolate ganache, topped with some fresh raspberries for a lil bit of sharpness against the sweet chocolatey sponge!

Once we’re open at the new shop and can reopen the website, I’ll be adding all these cakes online! So you can preorder on the website at a time that suits you and collect from the bakery😍🎂

25/05/2024

We’re doing our first bank hol!!

Usually we’re closed on Mondays as that’s our prep day, but this time we’re switching things around and will be OPEN on Monday 27th May 🎉

We’ll then be closed on Tuesday instead so can get her cookies prepped for the week🍪

16/05/2024

What’s happening

No literally, what’s happening at CHUNK? I’m not posting on here as much as I would like at the moment because the past few weeks have been busy :(

We’re in the last stages of getting the new recipe ready to roll out, which we’re real proud of and makes the current cookies look like p**p. You’re gonna be obsessed with the new cookies, like bueno who????

We’re also working to get the website done, get orders back open, revamp the packaging, start doing food, and start advertising for celebration cakes and wedding cookies more (while I bake for a whole cafe and Diego works full time as a physio lol)

We’re trying to push forward full steam ahead, we’ve got some BIG projects on at the moment and are grafting our lil socks off to get them all done within the next 2 months! We can’t wait to turn CHUNK into the business that we dream of 🫶

In the meantime, while we’re a lil quiet on here, please keep visiting and supporting us! We’re open Tuesday to Sunday 9am-3pm for cakes, coffee, pastries & cookies