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🇬🇧 British home bakery baking up scones, tarts, traybakes, & more in the Twin Cities! ☺️🇬🇧 Cheers!

In October 2019, our home business was born out of a lifelong passion for baking and serving others, and a dream to bring authentic British treats to the Twin Cities community. We named Nana's after co-owner Jessica's late nana, Blanche, who lived in Colchester, England, all her life—so all of our recipes are inspired by decades-old, storied recipes from Jessica's familial travels there growing up

. We believe there are few things that can connect people in the way that food does. Serving others through baking and cooking leads to real connections and real community—simply put, it is what we are hungry for. We make EVERYTHING from scratch in our home kitchen, and use only premium ingredients and top-quality imported products to craft our recipes. We're here to bring our Twin Cities friends an authentic taste of England without the expensive plane ticket. Feel free to read our full journey here: nanasbakeshoppe.com/our-story-1.

10/05/2023

To our beloved Nana’s Bake Shoppe friends: ❤️

I know–here comes a sappy, long post from your humble home baker, but one I hope will be worth your time. 🙂

For my husband, Billy, and me, this year has been wonderful so far—we’ve moved to Maple Grove, MN, to be very close to family, and we’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of our first baby, a girl, due October 29. We can’t quite believe it’s already baby month! 👶🏻

This year has also shown us that life comes with many seasons—and for us, this one will soon fill our time as new parents. For months, we discussed what we want the future to look like for us, and how we could best build that future together as a growing family. We thought hard of how Nana’s could fit into this new season of life.

And so, after tons of talks (and tears), we have decided to pause Nana’s Bake Shoppe for the foreseeable future.

To say this decision was tough would be a gross understatement. It took me a long time to realize that as much as I love baking for others, there are countless variables in small business ownership–for us, two of the biggest being patience and vision. Truthfully, I beat myself up so much thinking I wasn’t growing the business as fast as I wanted, thinking the only way Nana’s would succeed was as a brick and mortar, and that anything short of that wasn’t success—but I didn’t stop to realize what success meant to me. I didn’t realize that visions can change, even when my “why” has always stayed the same: to bring British bakes and a sense of connection through food with our community. When we put together what numbers we’d need to realistically get there (and the reality that I was a one-baker show), we realized that the path to what success looks like for Nana’s would have to be different—and I finally realized that wow, that’s okay.

What did we do next? We brainstormed what something new and special could be for us–especially as lovers of owning a business together beyond our 9-to-5s. We thought about how we could take my love of cooking and baking (and sharing that with others) and use that in a sustainable way. We got to work.

So, out of our months of talks has come our new culinary business venture—our new season—that we are so excited to finally share with you.

Say hello to our YouTube channel and recipe blog, Spuds & Scones!

With Spuds & Scones, you can expect:
(1) Baking and cooking videos! (Edited by Billy, who’s been tirelessly self-learning video editing, camera angles, the whole beast.) In each video, we’ll explore a new recipe together that holds great meaning to us–all created, tested, and approved by us. Of course, with every video, I’ll toss in some food puns, humor, and plenty of food nerd tips because that’s what this channel will be all about: food and fun. And as a former college English major, I’ve truly missed writing—and to do this as well as baking and cooking, all in this new culinary space? Let’s go.

(2) A recipe blog! Every video will have the full recipe on our Spuds & Scones blog, so if you’re not into videos, simply check out our website for all the recipes we’ll be making.

We hope you enjoy our first couple cracks at this YouTube journey and our blog—we’d love nothing more than for you to look around and let us know what you think. We’re still so new to this space, we’re learning every day, and we’re doing it scared–but we’re no strangers to that. We want you to know that Spuds & Scones is here completely for YOU–so the more feedback, the better!

Nana’s Bake Shoppe friends: As lengthy of a writer I am, I will simply say to all of you: we cannot thank you enough. Thank you for an amazing four years of baking for you all in the Twin Cities—for the farmers markets, your hundreds of scone orders, your family celebrations, weddings, baby showers, your loyal love of Bakewell tarts and millionaire’s shortbread 🙂—and above all, for the connections we’ve made with you that have made this home baker feel special so, so many times. You are a testament to what makes small businesses come alive, and we are forever grateful for all of it. And who knows? 2024 may bring some pop-up events or other fun—and trust us when we say it’s not goodbye, but see you later.

In the meantime, we would love it if you'd join us on this new culinary path that is Spuds & Scones—one we think will open more doors to us down the line and let us ultimately realize Nana’s in a new, bigger, more beautiful way. And that’s something to look forward to.

🎥 Lastly, to best support us on our new journey, subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss a new video!

Questions? Comments? Virtual scone-throwing at me? We understand. We just want to keep hearing from you, because let’s face it: life is so much better when people connect. And you’ve all been some of the best to us. (Seriously: I have a folder labeled “happy” in our business email with all the nice things you’ve said to us over the years. I’m 100% sap.)

For our full Spuds & Scones story and blog and our YouTube Channel: links in comments

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To the next adventure. ❤️

Always your chief baking officer and chief tasting officer,

With love and lots of butter,
Jessica, Billy, Pearl, and baby Pearse

07/26/2023

🇬🇧 Wow! It’s been a minute since we’ve said hello! What has everyone been up to this summer? We love hearing from you. ☀️🥰

Summer is *flying* for us, but it’s time to slow down a bit because it’s 🫠—so let’s reintroduce a Nana’s summer favorite: our campfire traybake! 🍫🔥

What is a campfire traybake, you say? Buttery graham cracker base + creamy & toasted marshmallow + European milk chocolate chunks + local caramel smoked salt from = yes please! Bonus: these are EXTRA tasty warmed up—a bonfire treat without any of the mess! 😉⛺️

Simply order at our website (link in comments), and you're on your way to nostalgic s'more goodness (with British flair, of course). Cheers! 🇬🇧

06/11/2023

🇬🇧 Early this Sunday morning, we officially finished our biggest order—200 mini plain British scones, all ready to be dressed up with clotted cream & jam for their wedding today! 💒

Congratulations to the bride & groom, who will be serving food based on places they visited as a couple (England being one of them 🫖💂🏻‍♀️)—so sweet! 🥰

Special thanks to Aurelie at Lila Buffet Styling for coordinating this, and for supporting our British home bakery and our love for serving others through the magic of food—we are truly grateful! 🇬🇧

06/06/2023

🇬🇧 Hooray! We're back, friends, and we've missed you! 🥰 We're ready to bake for you and have a few exciting updates to share from our new home in Maple Grove:

🇬🇧 We updated our logo! We wanted to embrace the beautiful colors of the Union Jack with a British bakehouse touch—& to highlight how much we've loved bringing you homemade British bakes since we began in 2019. 🏡

🇬🇧 We refreshed our website! Take a look around—we'd love to hear what you think! (Link in comments.) 😍

🇬🇧 We refreshed our menu! We now offer all of our British scones in regular & mini size—perfect for parties & everything in between.

🇬🇧 We’re introducing a scone of the month! At the beginning of each month, we're featuring a new scone that spotlights a new or seasonal flavor, available only that month. For June, it's our "strawberry fields" scone! 🍓 Available on our website now. 🙂

🇬🇧 We’re taking a break from farmers markets. (But we’ve been working on something we hope you'll love! Hint: we wrote a bit about it on our new website. 🤓)

From our growing family, thank you so much for your continued support of our British bakery & for the unique chance to serve you and share our story with you—all from our little Maple Grove home. ❤️🇬🇧

With love from Jessica, Billy, Pearl, & baby Pearse

05/14/2023

🇬🇧 Set the timer for October 2023… our newest adventure awaits! 🎈🏡 we are overjoyed to announce that we are welcoming a baby girl 🎀 to the world in October! 👶🏻💕🇬🇧

05/03/2023

🇬🇧 Yes, that’s me on the left hugging our old-but-mighty oven 😂 that made us so many Nana’s British scones and other orders—our little apartment kitchen served us well. 🥰

This weekend, we packed six years of Minnetonka memories into many boxes and made our way to our new home in Maple Grove! 🚚 We’ll miss the wonderful community, but we’ll cherish those times forever—and we can’t tell you how grateful we are for the new friendships we’ve made with our Nana’s customers over the last few years. Your loyalty and support mean the world to Billy and me! 🏡

❤️ So, what’s next for Nana’s? We’re making some exciting changes! We’re taking a few weeks off while we get settled in our new place and update some things. We can’t wait for you to see them. ☺️

We’re so excited and grateful for all the new memories we’ll make (and British treats we will bake) here in Maple Grove—new, beautiful, adventures, here we come. 👫🇬🇧

04/09/2023

🇬🇧 Happy Easter to you and yours! We had so much fun baking up scones, mini egg millionaire’s shortbread, Bakewell tarts, and hot cross buns 🌷 for you and hope you enjoy them as much as we did baking them. We are always so grateful for your support of our little British home bakery 🏡—have a beautiful day! 🇬🇧

03/28/2023

🇬🇧 As a British home bakery, Easter calls for one quintessentially British treat—for a LIMITED time, it's time for our Nana's hot cross buns! 🌷🐰

🇬🇧 THE BUNS: Hot cross buns are a yeast-leavened bun and a British teatime staple, traditionally eaten on Good Friday. Ours are made with warm cinnamon spices, studded with organic raisins and golden raisins, and finished with an English golden syrup glaze and fresh orange icing cross. 🥰

🇬🇧 HOW TO BUY (*SEE NOTE*): These are available on our website now for a limited time! *NOTE: Due to our current schedules, we'll have room for a very small number of orders—so if you're interested, order now before we sell out! We'd love to bake what we can for you! Pickups for hot cross buns will be from Tuesday, April 4 to Friday, April 7, at our home in Minnetonka. Cheers and happy Easter! 🇬🇧

03/20/2023

🇬🇧 As of 45 minutes ago, it’s officially SPRING! And a new Nana’s treat is hitting our menu for a very limited time! Say hello 👋🏻 to our Easter egg 🪺 millionaire’s shortbread! It’s (kid tested), adorable nephew Henry approved. 💚🌷😍🐥

🇬🇧 THE SHORTBREAD: A true Nana’s favorite is all dressed up for Easter—with crushed Cadbury mini eggs folded into our shortbread base, creamy homemade caramel, and European dark chocolate with Maldon sea salt and mini egg sprinkle. Lovers of caramel and chocolate will go eggstra 😉 crazy for this! 🍫

🇬🇧 HOW TO BUY: Available on our website now! As always, you can order this or any of our British delights from our website 24/7 for pickup from our Minnetonka home. 🏡 Cheers! 🇬🇧

03/15/2023

🚨 Announcement/Sappy Post Alert 🚨

🇬🇧 When one oven door closes, another one opens (that's the old adage, right?)—we're moving to Maple Grove at the end of April! 🏡👫🐶

When we opened Nana's Bake Shoppe in late 2019 from our little apartment here in Minnetonka, we did it scared. We were recent transplants from small-town Holmen, Wisconsin, where we grew up, so we didn't know many people. We didn't really know the small business space. We didn't know what to expect.

What did we know? That we had a passion for serving our community through our love of British baked goods, with the spirit of my late Nana at the forefront of our mission. That we had a tiny kitchen capable of baking as much as we could (sanely) bake, starting with the humble British scone. That we knew how powerful the connection between people and food could be. That we were ready to launch our website and invite customers into our story. That we had grit, determination, and a true joy for this stuff.

Since then, we've been vendors at the Northeast, Hopkins, and Minnetonka farmers markets, where we've met countless wonderful people. We've entered baking competitions. We've baked for bridal showers, for weddings, for families, for area small businesses, for our favorite Irish pub, and for so many British folks (and lovers of British culture). We've gotten our Labradoodle, Pearl, who's the sweetest Nana's mascot we could have asked for. We've taken pauses, because life happens, and that's okay. We've picked each other up when we've doubted ourselves. And we've grown—as small business owners, as husband and wife, and as a home bakery. And we are damn grateful for it all.

We've done a lot here in Minnetonka—and we've barely scratched this beautiful surface that is Nana's Bake Shoppe, and all we believe it can be. We can't wait to continue our Nana's adventures in Maple Grove, and we can't wait for you to continue with us. 🚗

You, here, reading this, have helped make this all happen and helped us get this far. You've shown up for us—from Minnetonka, Hopkins, Chanhassen, Prior Lake, Wayzata, Edina, Excelsior, Plymouth, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and beyond. Thank you a million for supporting us—it means more than you know. (And for all the folks who've called us asking where we are located because you're driving around Minnetonka and want to stop in right away for a Nana's treat—that brick-and-mortar dream we have is still very alive. Someday. 🥰)

THE GOOD NEWS: Besides pickup location, nothing has changed! We'll ALWAYS be taking your online orders for pickup at our home—simply order from our website and let us know when you'd like to pick up from us. This will never change! We'd love to bake for you anytime. All we need is a couple days' notice. ☺️

UNTIL THEN: We're happily taking your online orders for pickup at our Minnetonka home from now until Saturday, April 15, at 5:00 pm. We can't wait to see your familiar (and new) faces and share our British bakes with you. 🙂 Maple Grove pickups will begin in early May. 🏡

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for making our six years in Minnetonka (and 3+ years as Nana's) amazing. 🇬🇧

With gratitude and good cheer,
Jessica, Billy, & Pearl

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http://nanasbakeshoppe.com/

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Billy & Jessica Pearse, co-owners

Hello, friends! We're Billy and Jessica, and we're a husband-and-wife team living happily in Minnetonka, Minnesota. By day, we’re hard at work at our corporate jobs—by night, we’re hard at work baking up British treats that bring us back to our memories with Nana during our travels to England.

The main idea for our business all began with spotting what we found to be a void in the culinary market, after enjoying a local pastry together one Saturday morning. We asked the question: Why aren’t there proper British scones in the Twin Cities? Whenever we’d visit England, we’d have the most delicious ones in rural village tearooms, filled with various dried fruits and regionally loved flavors. They had three distinct features much different from their American counterparts: (1) they were round, (2) just slightly sweet, and (3) never spoiled by icing. We knew then that we wanted to do much more than change the way people see (and taste) a scone—we wanted to show the community just how special British baked goods are, with the spirit and soul of Nana at the forefront of our mission.

From there, we researched and tested countless traditional recipes to build the flagship collection you see today. And with that, our small business was born.