Brief
Baking Therapy is a working bakery with a teacher at the center of it
Founder Erica Leeds runs Baking Therapy as a Nashville bakery and teaching concept, selling scones, brownies and cookies and taking local orders online.
Photo courtesy of Baking Therapy Cafe (@bakingtherapynash)
Not every new business arrives with a storefront and a sign. Baking Therapy Cafe is a Nashville bakery and teaching concept run by founder Erica Leeds. The bakery is open and taking local orders.
The menu on its site is the comfort end of baking: lemon scones, orange apricot cardamom scones, double chocolate brownies, and cookies with names like Epic Everything and PBJ. Orders run through Hotplate, the preorder platform many small bakeries use to bake in batches without waste. The teaching half of the concept is in the name: this is a bakery built by someone who teaches, which shows up in how the business presents itself, more kitchen table than display case.
Baking Therapy operates from East Nashville and announces bakes and ordering windows through its site and Instagram. For readers building a mental map of the city's small food businesses, it belongs on the list of one-person operations doing it properly.
Read more
- Baking Therapy Cafe (official site) - the menu and the founder's About page.
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