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Meet the Locals
from Around The Table
by ptfoodcoop
TWO CROWS BAKERY
Kendra Wind was working at the Two Crows Bakery last year when the owners asked her if she wanted to purchase it. She was able to buy it with the help of GoFundMe and friends in January 2021.
Kendra’s been in love with baking since she was six or seven years old when she baked with her mother. She was home schooled, so her mother used cooking measurements to help teach her math. Owning a retail bakery or cupcake bar became a dream of hers.
When she bought Two Crows Bakery, Kendra hoped to make it into a cupcake bar but Covid prevented that dream. So she switched to baking cookies to sell wholesale, and to her delight, her cookies “took off.”
Kendra grew up vegan, so it was natural to make her cookies vegan. They are also gluten free. She’s working on baking with the best, most healthy ingredients. Recently, she was excited to find plantbased sprinkles so she can create colorful cookies for kids.
The recipes are all her own creations, and she keeps dreaming up new ones, including innovative flavors such as her Matcha Mint and Golden Milk. So far, she’s created twelve varieties. She said it has been surprisingly easy for her to come up with new flavors, combining a variety of ingredients to please different tastes.
She and her fiancé, Kourtney, do all the work for the bakery, from writing labels to mixing, baking, packaging, and finally, delivering the cookies. Kendra intends to keep her business wholesale so she can work around her family’s schedule. A flexible schedule was especially helpful last year when her son had to be home schooled and now when she needs to come in late at night to catch up on orders.
Two Crows cookies are gaining national popularity through various outlets that have requested them. When tourists from Alabama bought her cookies at
Kendra Wind owner of Two Crows Bakery
The Food Coop, they were so excited they went home and asked their local store to sell them. Recently Kendra shipped a trial order to a New York shop after the owner saw Two Crow cookies on The Co-op’s social media feed. And friends in Ohio and Colorado have asked local shops to carry them as well.
To keep her customers up on flavors and news, Kendra has a Facebook page. She had to start a new page after the old one was hacked, so she asks people to make sure they’ve got the correct page when they look up Two Crows Bakery.
Kendra delivers her cookies to the Co-op on Mondays and Fridays, so that’s the best time to buy your favorite flavors.