Made with Love in the Co-op Bakery

The Co-op bakery team makes every recipe by hand—cracking every egg, decorating every item, and packaging every dessert to make each treat as beautiful as it is delicious.

Like all our housemade sweets and savories, every syrup, frosting, ganache, and embellishment is 100% free of artificial colors, flavors, and GMOs.

Valentine's Day bakery orders accepted through Monday, February 11.

Bleeding Heart

two small square chocolate cakes with hearts on top with roses and forks

Our perennial Valentine’s Day (or any day) favorite. Moist, scratch-baked chocolate cake filled with our housemade raspberry sauce made with local berries, enrobed in vegan housemade chocolate ganache, and finished with a chocolate drizzle.

It is sure to capture you or your valentine’s heart.

Like all the housemade sweets and savories from our bakery, every syrup, frosting, ganache, and embellishment is 100% free of artificial colors, flavors, and GMOs.

Local raspberries and fair trade chocolate are the perfect combo.

It's vegan. Really. We swear.

Two Hearts Cheesecake

An adorable rich and creamy vanilla mini cheesecake decorated with two raspberry sauce hearts.

Beware! Due to extreme deliciousness you may want to buy two to ensure sharing.

This gluten-free cheesecake features local dairy and eggs. The raspberries are from Barbie's Berries in Ferndale!

To maximize flavor and freshness, we make our delicious gluten-free graham crust in house from scratch.

I Heart You & Chocolate Cake

chocolate cake made with love from bakery

A perfect dessert for sharing with a valentine.

Our unabashedly delicious chocolate cake is covered with our decadent housemade chocolate ganache and beautifully decorated for a love-inspired day.

Colored icings are created in-house using plant-based, all-natural products that are 100% free of corn syrup and synthetic dyes.

Made with fair trade chocolate and organic flour, sugar, and eggs.

Storm Cloud Cake & Cosmic Cupcakes

gluten-free storm cloud cake from the coop bakery is layers of chocolate cake layered with raspberry filling and vanilla whipped creama

Storm Cloud Cake has irresistible layers of gluten-free chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla whipped cream.

gluten-free and vegan cosmic cupcakes are delicious yellow cake festively decorated to suit every season

Cosmic Cupcakes are dreamy vegan and gluten-free delights colorfully adorned by the Co-op bakery team to suit every season.

Raspberry Vanilla Cheesecake & Chocolate Pot de Crème

Our New York style cheesecake—kissed with hints of vanilla and raspberry—when paired with Chocolate Pot de Crème is dessert perfection!

Both irresistible treats are gluten-free.

single slice of pot de creme chocolate dessert

What is chocolate pot de crème? It’s not mousse, it’s not cake, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate dream come true!

The bakery team is skilled at hand-decorating and can fulfill nearly any heart's desire with a custom order.

Entertaining? The Co-op makes it easy!

The Co-op is here to make entertaining a breeze! Every department in our stores is stocked with carefully selected items to make your gathering special: bakery, deli, specialty cheese, wine and spirits, produce, meat, and grocery.

Choose from a wide variety of made from scratch, delicious sweets and savories for your next gathering.

From the Co-op Bakery

The Co-op bakery has you covered with all types of goodies from custom cakes to cookie trays.

christmas-themed custom cake with sugar-coated cranberries and clementines

chocolate cake with sprinkles stars zoomed in

christmas cupcakes marshmallow snowman winter decorations

From the Co-op Deli

The Co-op deli-to-go offers trays and entrees to keep your guests fed and happy. Veggie, fruit, cheese, meats, kabobs, sandwiches ... choose your tray! Or, order an entree of your choice that is ready to heat and eat: spinach lasagna, veggie and bean enchilada, chicken enchilada, or vegetable frittata (recommend serving cold). Or you can simply stop by the deli service case or specialty cheese case and choose from our ample selection!

vegetable platter with pita ranch dressing tomatoes broccoli carrots bell peppers cucumbers

Do It Yourself

Choose from our large array of scratch-made dips and spreads, cheese, charcuterie, olives, crackers, and other goodies to create a finger-food panoply that your guests will love. Need advice on pairings? Just ask our cheese buyers or deli counter staff. We're happy to help! Consider adding a bottle of wine or spirits!

charcuterie salami cheese ale French bread

romesco dip and artichoke parmesan dip with bread and carrots

charcuterie salami and cheese slices and brie

Baked from Scratch with Love: The Co-op Bakery

by Lisalyn Osborne, Bakery department assistant manager

The Co-op bakery team takes pride in preparing baked goods from scratch, using top-quality ingredients, like these melt-in-your-mouth vegan chocolate truffles. Co-op bakers also excel at creating beautifully decorated and delicious custom treats—tailored to customer specifications.

Co-op bakery staff had a very busy year, whipping up several new tempting treats that quickly became popular staple items in our bakery cases.

If you haven’t yet tried the expanded selection of muffins or brioche (mouthwatering creations both sweet and savory), that is an oversight you might want to correct immediately.

Other edible masterpieces coming from the bakery ovens included custom-made birthday cakes and specialty delights that were as beautiful as they were delicious, including an adorable Thomas the Tank Engine cupcake cake and a stunning winter wonderland scene of chocolate ganache-topped cupcakes with sugared thyme and cranberries and meringue mushrooms. Oh, my!

Co-op bakery staff also made some very special birthday boys and girls happy with treats made to satisfy specific dietary requirements, because everybody deserves a sweet celebration on their birthday. Vegan, grain free, sugar free, dairy free, paleo—bring your special request to our talented, experienced baking team and they will create something spectacular to meet your needs.

because everybody deserves a sweet celebration on their birthday

Every February, keep an eye out for decadent specialties to woo your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day, including Hearts of Darkness, Bleeding Hearts, Truffles, and I Heart You and Chocolate cakes.

Each and every cookie, cupcake, pesto Parmesan brioche, pumpkin cloud cake, and chocolate caramel cream pie—from the simply sublime to the dazzlingly divine—was made from scratch in our kitchen using the highest quality, non-GMO, and organic ingredients we can affordably source. You’ll never find any artificial colors, antibiotics, or hormones in any of our bakery goods.

The new bakery kitchen, completed in 2016, has 1,300 square feet, about three times the size of the bakery’s former work space. And added some long-wished-for new equipment including ovens that adjust for humidity and a steam kettle (which is basically a giant bain marie or double boiler) for making custards and other recipes that require a gentle heat.

Having a dedicated space also made the rigorous cleaning process prior to the gluten-free bake more efficient.

Oh, and windows! The Cordata kitchens were lovely, but sort of lacking in the window department. Downtown, passers-by can peek behind the scenes and see bakery staff at work through the large windows along Holly Street that also bring some welcome natural light into the bakery work space.

We hope you enjoy eating the delicious goodies that result from the magic (and heartfelt work) that goes on behind the Co-op bakery kitchen doors.

Bleeding Hearts

by Habiba Sial, Outreach Department

valentine's day chocolate heart cake on doily with fork

When was the last time you ate a bleeding heart?

I just did. No big deal. And it was SO GOOD.

First off, it is a dessert. A seriously divine dessert. A small heart-shaped cake, to be exact.

This cake relies on the classic flavor combination of raspberry and chocolate, made from two heart-shaped layers of chocolate cake filled with raspberry sauce and covered with a thin layer of tender chocolate ganache. The chocolate cake was moist with a perfect crumb. The raspberry sauce is made in-house from locally grown Barbie’s Berries.

While I often have Game of Thones daydreams, this one was particularly vivid. Was I in the office or was I eating this succulent treat from my bare hands on a raised dais in front of my people while raspberry sauce ran down my chin? Nope, just eating this at my desk while critiquing a group project. Phew. Anyway, we can’t all be Daenerys and I really don’t want to live in Westeros. Yikes.

Little known fact: cake makes critiques better.

Share this with your sweetie, your bestie, or just keep it to for your self. This Bleeding Heart is a love bomb.

Baked from Scratch with Love

by Lisalyn Osborne, Bakery Team

Co-op bakery staff had a very busy year in 2014, whipping up several new tempting treats that quickly became popular staple items in our bakery cases. If you haven’t yet tried the expanded selection of muffins or brioche (mouthwatering creations both sweet and savory), that is an oversight you might want to correct immediately.

Vegan, grain free, sugar free, dairy free, paleo—bring your special request to our talented, experienced baking team and they will create something spectacular to meet your needs.

In February, keep an eye out for decadent specialties to woo your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day, including Hearts of Darkness, Bleeding Hearts, Truffles, and I Heart You and Chocolate cakes.

Each and every cookie, cupcake, jalapeno feta brioche, pumpkin cloud cake, and chocolate caramel cream pie—from the simply sublime to the dazzlingly divine—was made from scratch in our kitchen using the highest quality, non-GMO, and organic ingredients we can affordably source. You’ll never find any artificial colors, antibiotics, or hormones in any of our bakery goods.

Just imagine what the Co-op bakers will be able to accomplish when they move into their sleek new bakery production facility in the new Co-op Connections Building!

The new bakery kitchen will be 1,300 square feet, about three times the size of the bakery’s current work space. And we’ll be adding some long-wished-for new equipment including ovens that adjust for humidity and a steam kettle (which is basically a giant bain marie or double boiler) for making custards and other recipes that require a gentle heat.

Once the bakery is settled into its own space, it will also make the rigorous cleaning process prior to the gluten-free bake more efficient.

Oh, and windows! The Cordata kitchens are lovely, but sort of lacking in the window department. Downtown, passers-by will be able to peek behind the scenes and see bakery staff at work through the large windows along Holly Street that will also bring some welcome natural light into the bakery work space.

Until then, you’ll just have to be satisfied with eating the delicious goodies that result from the magic (and heartfelt work) that goes on behind the Co-op bakery kitchen doors.