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Jess Bakeshop

Naturally leavened sourdough for all kinds of bread🥖🍞 freshly baked pastries, cakes, cookies.

Address: 18 North Ave, Garwood NJ 07027
📧 [email protected]

07/04/2026

Happy Fourth of July weekend! 🇺🇸
We’ll be open: • Saturday , July 4: 10:00 AM–3:00 PM • Sunday, July 5: 9:30 AM–3:00 PM
We’ve been busy packing our July 4 Sourdough Cinnamon Roll Boxes, and if you missed a preorder, don’t worry—we’ll also have these seasonal flavors available in the shop while they last.
This weekend you’ll also find plenty of our sourdough focaccia, including: 🥖 Jess’ House Blend Sausage 🌶️ Gochujang 🫒 Green Olive 🍅 Tomato & Cheese
Along with all of your favorite pastries, we’ll have plenty of refreshing cream-filled treats to help beat the summer heat.
Our ovens have been running above 500°F, and while it’s been incredibly hot, we’re grateful to spend these long baking days making fresh sourdough bread for our community. Today’s loaves sold out again, and hearing that our bread has become part of your family gatherings truly means the world to us.

One more thing—we’ve also been working behind the scenes on a few exciting focaccia projects, and we can’t wait to share more with you soon. Stay tuned!
See you tomorrow! ❤️🥖

06/30/2026

✨🇺🇸 Celebrate the Fourth with something fresh from the bakery!
We’ve curated a few special treats to make your July 4th celebration even sweeter.
🥧 Raspberry Galette 🍑 Peach Vanilla Galette Both are baked with our buttery pastry and filled with our signature almond croissant cream.

✨ Assorted Sourdough Cinnamon Roll Box (4 Pack) Enjoy three of our seasonal flavors in one box: • 2 Blueberry Compote & Lemon  • 1 Strawberry 🍓& Lemon Curd • 1 Peach Vanilla

Preorder now for pickup on July 3 or July 4.
(Link in bio : https://jessbakeshop.com) Pickup begins at 10:00 AM. We can’t wait to bake for your holiday weekend! ❤️🤍💙

06/27/2026

Weekend is back! ☀️
It has been a joyful Scone Week, and we’re keeping the celebration going!
✨ This weekend’s highlights : • Earl Grey Tea Lemon Scone • Cinnamon Brown Sugar Scone • Cranberry Lemon Scone • Strawberry Cloud Danish (so refreshing!) • Peach 🍑 Vanilla Galette • Salt Butter Bagels • Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls (4 flavors!)
● Classic
● Peach Vanilla
● Blueberry Lemon
● Pistachio Cream
And don’t forget our two most popular refreshing drinks: 🧋 Earl Grey Cold Brew with our house-made strawberry sauce (a.k.a. the “Donna Special”) 🍵 Organic Matcha Honey Lemonade 🍯🍋
We can’t wait to see you this weekend! 💛

06/25/2026

🍑 Peach Galette 🌿

New summer menu added and July 4th special 🍑

This is one of our favorites from our farmers market days. 🍑✨ Perfectly spiced fresh peaches are macerated in Jess’s spiced pure vanilla syrup and baked on our signature buttery pie dough.

If you loved our Apple Almond Croissant Filling Pie last winter, we think you’ll love this even more. Simple, bold, and focused on pure flavor—that’s what we’re always striving for at Jess Bakeshop.

We love this one so much and hope you do too. Enjoy summer with this special fresh peach galette. ☀️🤍

And a little heads-up… we’ll have some new savory sammy items in the shop as well. We’ll share more details later this week, but stop by and check them out first—you might be in for a pleasant surprise. 😉

06/17/2026

🎁LIMITED FATHER’S DREAM BOX PRE-ORDER 🎁

For the dads who love savory, comforting flavors and a little something special.

✨ Father’s Dream Box
• 3 Buttermilk Corn Scones (they’re back for summer!)
• 2 Kimchi Pulled Pork Pastry

Also available to preorder:
🍪 Cookie Box
• 2 Roasted Walnut Dark Chocolate Cookies
• 2 Classic Belgian Chocolate Chip Cookies
• 2 Brownie-Filled Double Chocolate Cookies

🥐 Sourdough Cinnamon Roll Boxes of
• Classic Cream Cheese
• Blueberry Compote
• Pistachio Cream

Celebrate Dad with a cozy breakfast and a box full of handcrafted treats made from scratch.

⏰ Pre-orders are open for 48 HOURS ONLY on (https://jessbakeshop.com) link in bio
📅 Ordering closes Thursday 6/18
📍Pickup on Saturday 6/20

06/13/2026

This weekend, Peach Vanilla is back for the summer! 🍑☀️

Juicy peaches are gently macerated in pure vanilla syrup and paired with our house-blended spices, all topped with our signature cream cheese frosting. It’s one of our personal favorites, and we’re so excited to have it back.

We’ll also have a surprise cold drink ready for the warm weekend ahead. 🧋✨

Our best-(and fast) selling focaccias are back in full force:
🍅 Tomato & Cheese
🫒 Green Olive & Sea Salt
🌶️ Gochujang Aioli
🌭 Jess’ House-Blended Sausage

It was hot today but our sourdough breads were sold out and your favorites are back too:
🍋 Lemon Curd Fresh Cream Milk Bun
🍓 Strawberry Danish

See you this weekend! 🤍

06/11/2026

We’re back in action after an amazing break with friends and family! 🙏

We’ve been busy making lots of cookie batches, salted caramel for your favorite salted caramel espresso drinks, mixing sourdough bagels, sourdough milk buns for our beloved fresh lemon curd buns, rolling pastries, and giving our sourdough focaccia a new upgrade and more!

Simon is so grateful for all of your warm and thoughtful birthday wishes. We’ve never felt so loved — you guys are truly incredible❤️

During our break, we spent some time in NYC visiting some of the hottest bakeries and coffee shops and, of course, checking out a few famous cinnamon rolls to see what’s out there. 😉 We’re happy to report that we’re feeling pretty proud of our own cinnamon rolls too!

We also had such a wonderful time with the Salt Hank crew Salt Hank’s. What kind people, and what a special surprise birthday celebration for Simon! And the sandwich was soooo yum!

We wrapped up our break visiting my brothers and spending time with our niece Emma, making memories with the people we love most.

We’ll be announcing this weekend’s specials, new summer cinnamon roll flavors, and a few other seasonal treats very soon!

See you in the morning! ☀️🥐Love,Simon & Jess

06/03/2026

This week is a special one for us. 🎂🤍 It’s Simon’s birthday week, and for the first time in a very long time, we decided to take “a full week off”.

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know that’s a big deal. Since last Thanksgiving, we’ve been running nonstop. Building a sourdough bakery in a tiny space takes a lot of moving parts, organization, heavy lifting 💪and problem-solving.

What many people don’t know is that Simon isn’t a baker by training—he’s an engineer. When we started farmers markets, he was there to help carry tables and boxes. When we opened the bakery, he quietly took over and engineered our entire sourdough production flow, helping us make the most of our limited space and keep everything running smoothly.

Because of Simon, Jess gets to focus on creating pastries, savory items, configuration of 100% sourdough bagels, dreaming up new ideas, and baking all the things she imagines. He also brings some much-needed consistency around here—otherwise there would probably be a completely new menu every day thanks to Jess’s endless ideas. 😂

On a personal note, before Simon, I was preparing to leave my corporate finance/accounting life in NYC and move to Paris. Then I met him, and life took a different path. I moved to New Jersey, started a small baking business with his encouragement, and somehow ended up opening this tiny bakeshop together.

He has supported every step, challenge, and wild idea along the way. These days, customers—and especially the kids—often come in asking, “Where’s Simon?” Everyone loves Simon, and the truth is, he loves everyone even more.

So this week, we’re celebrating him by giving him something he rarely takes: a full week off. 🎉

Thank you for supporting not just our bakery, but the people behind it. We’ll see you next Thursday.🙏

In the meantime, check out our website for some new Father’s Day merch. 🤍

05/16/2026

Another weekend prep is underway ✨

We’ll have all three flavors of our sourdough focaccia (Gochujang,Tomato cheese and green olive) this weekend (and lots of them!).

This week’s special:🥬 Kimchi Pulled Pork wrapped in our Pain Suisse. Also joining the lineup —💚 Pistachio almond cream + Belgian dark chocolate Pain Suisse❤️ along with our all-time favorite raspberry dark chocolate Pain Suisse.

You all loved the Mother’s Day salted caramel sourdough cinnamon roll so this weekend it will be here! Let’s go ✨

Thank you again for all the support and love — you wiped us out again today. We truly can’t wait to see you all this weekend 🤍

05/12/2026

Mother’s Day at our bakery was beautiful, overwhelming, emotional, and unforgettable all at once.

This weekend did not go as planned. We prepped for many days for this day..Unexpected staffing issues delayed opening, with unfinished packaging, missing displays, backed-up tickets, and moments where we genuinely wondered how we would get through the day. There were pastries still cooling while customers were already lining up outside. Preorders piled up. We were exhausted before the doors even opened.

And yet… you all showed up with smiles. One customer quietly said, “not any one person left the line.”
I almost cried hearing that.

We know the waits were long. We know some experiences felt imperfect. We are still a very small team making everything fresh by hand every morning — sourdough, pastries, fillings, sandwiches, packaging, all of it. We are learning in real time how to grow without losing the care and soul that made people come to us in the first place.

We will continue improving. We will hire carefully. We will become stronger. But we also hope people can see the human side of small businesses like ours. There is no giant system behind the counter and not much room to fail with wrong hires — only tired hands, flour-covered aprons, and people trying their absolute best.

This Mother’s Day carried a deeper emotion for me personally. Life did not allow me to become a mother, even though I once hoped for it very much. Over time, I realized the love I could not pour into children found another place to go: into this bakery, into the real bread, into feeding people, into creating a space that feels warm and comforting to others.

Maybe that is why we care so deeply about every loaf and every customer who walks through our door.

To everyone who waited patiently, encouraged us, smiled at us, defended us, or simply stayed in line with kindness in your heart — thank you. You carried us through one of the hardest and most meaningful days we’ve had yet.

This little bakery may grow and change in the future, but these early days — chaotic, imperfect, heartfelt days like this — will stay with us forever.

We’ll show up again Thursday morning and keep baking.

Address

18 North Avenue
Garwood, NJ
07027

Opening Hours

Thursday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Saturday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Sunday	9:30am - 3:30pm

Website

https://www.jessbakeshop.com/

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