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Old 10-12-2007, 09:31 AM
 
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the best whipped cream icing and cakes in teh Valley come out of Sanitary Bakery in Nanticoke.
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Old 10-12-2007, 03:20 PM
 
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"..... it was delicious, pretty, and NOTHING like a birthday cake that you would buy in a bakery on L.I. But like I said in another post, Pennsylvanians won't miss what they never had."....

Ahem. excuse moi, but as a PA Native who has also resided in NYC and Long Island, I have enjoyed some extraordinary baked goods in PA the likes of of which you'll never find in New York, like raisin filled cookies, for example....I have eaten my way across the bakeries of the Upper east Side, upper West side, the Village and SoHo and while I've had great pleasure doing so, I revere (and miss) some of the old fashioned, home style delectable goodies of PA. It's completely a matter of which bakery, folks.
Not too long ago Wilkes-Barre had the inimitable Percy Brown's food emporium (now the W-B Movies 14 site and the Boston Candy Shoppe on Public Square for fancier baked goods as well as the original Old River Road bakery for delicious home style stuff.

Try Bethlehem for a change of pace perhaps at Holidaytime, avec the lights! There's a marvelous Viennese style patisserie downtown. You won't miss New York one iota......

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Old 10-12-2007, 04:56 PM
 
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Ahem. excuse moi, but as a PA Native who has also resided in NYC and Long Island, I have enjoyed some extraordinary baked goods in PA the likes of of which you'll never find in New York, like raisin filled cookies, for example....I have eaten my way across the bakeries of the Upper east Side, upper West side, the Village and SoHo and while I've had great pleasure doing so, I revere (and miss) some of the old fashioned, home style delectable goodies of PA. It's completely a matter of which bakery, folks.
Not too long ago Wilkes-Barre had the inimitable Percy Brown's food emporium (now the W-B Movies 14 site and the Boston Candy Shoppe on Public Square for fancier baked goods as well as the original Old River Road bakery for delicious home style stuff.

Try Bethlehem for a change of pace perhaps at Holidaytime, avec the lights! There's a marvelous Viennese style patisserie downtown. You won't miss New York one iota......

WasPa.....
Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining and I'm not about to go back to N.Y. if you BOUGHT me the whole dang bakery and paid me a million a yr. to run it!!
In the area I am from there are virtually NO bakeries. I'm sure there are some around Pa somewhere, but nothing to speak of in my part of the woods.
Anyone know where to get a black forest cake?
Or how about a Hawaiian cheesecake?
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Old 01-30-2008, 02:04 PM
 
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Talking pocono livin for me

The new minooka bakery/pastry shop in hamlin does have some very good pastry but thats about it. The cake I and later found out from several other people was made with the wrong filling, and ordering a white cake turned out to be a marble mix. The cakes wre not what you ordered.The owners wife was overheard telling customers nothing was actually baked there, everything was from suppliers and frozen. Not the hometown bakery I thought it was. It appears the staff both counter and backroom has been cut to bare bones. The owners are trying to do it themselves, looks like a downward turn which I am sorry to see.
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Old 01-31-2008, 09:37 PM
 
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I went to the Minooka Bakery a few times when it first opened. I purchased a chocolate cream pie with a very soggy crust filled with the pudding that comes in a big #10 can. Other items are days old, and now, a few months after opening, the selection is down to a bare minimum. I won't go anymore. Even the donuts aren't good, they are better at Weis.
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Old 02-01-2008, 05:22 PM
 
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I have heard the Minooka bakery in hamlin may be closing. Their pastries are as you say very stale and for the brownies,wow, more like rocks. All I have to say is if you want a goos rye bread DO NOT go there. The pie I bought not to long ago appeared to have had the top filling partially removed and new added. Looking at the slice from the side had two different colors and the bottom layer looked old. I love danish and at the opening in September they were pretty good, after a while they began to taste like a refrozen piece of cake and the bottoms were burnt. It might have been a good bakery if the quality remained the same as opening day. The OUR TOWN magazine no longer has the Minooka bakery advertisement which makes me believe it is closing.
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Old 02-01-2008, 07:58 PM
 
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Hmmm, yes I agree that the quality declined drastically. I had only been there 3 times, but I will not go back. I do know that they have advertised in The Hideout Newspaper for the month of January. The advertisement reads something to the effect...'like the bakery where you came from.'
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Old 02-03-2008, 09:26 PM
 
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I'll ditto the suggestion for the Yellow Cottage Bakery, on Rt. 206 in NJ...probably 15 - 20 minutes from Matamoras. I think it's technically in Branchville.
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Old 07-20-2008, 10:53 AM
 
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I have heard the Minooka bakery in hamlin may be closing. Their pastries are as you say very stale and for the brownies,wow, more like rocks. All I have to say is if you want a goos rye bread DO NOT go there. The pie I bought not to long ago appeared to have had the top filling partially removed and new added. Looking at the slice from the side had two different colors and the bottom layer looked old. I love danish and at the opening in September they were pretty good, after a while they began to taste like a refrozen piece of cake and the bottoms were burnt. It might have been a good bakery if the quality remained the same as opening day. The OUR TOWN magazine no longer has the Minooka bakery advertisement which makes me believe it is closing.
I would just like to point out the Minooka Bakery in Hamlin is only a secondary business in the building and I do hope it closes. The main business, the reason the building was built is for the Grainless Baker, a gluten free bakery. They provide gluten free bkery items to people like me who are intolerant to Wheat Rye Barley and Oats. I have always felt uncomfortable that they were selling wheat in that building, and they were keeping it Bare Bones for the reason that it is innaproate to make wheat products on the same equipment that Gluten free items are made.
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Old 07-20-2008, 12:10 PM
 
Location: The Poconos
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So do they bake the gluten free items there now or the regular stuff? The Grainless Baker used to bake right out of his home. I do agree though, people can get very sick if the regular items even touch the gluten free baking surfaces!
I dont like any of their regular treats, I wont miss them if they go
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