What Bird-in-Hand Bake Shop is known for
An Amish-country bake shop working through breads, potato rolls and whoopie pies to the shoo-fly pie that Lancaster County has voted the region's best ten years running. Amish crafts and baskets share the room, and in season there is a petting zoo and somewhere for the children to go.
Bird-in-Hand Bake Shop sits in the middle of Lancaster County's Amish farmland, positioning itself less as a bakery stop and more, in its own words, as "a destination, not just a stop." The shop bakes fresh daily — breads, potato rolls, cinnamon buns, cookies and whoopie pies — alongside its best-known item, a gooey-bottom shoo-fly pie that the business says has been voted the region's best for ten years running.
Beyond what comes out of the oven, the shop operates as something closer to a small marketplace: a gift section stocked with locally made Amish crafts, toys and handwoven baskets, a bulk foods aisle with jams and pickled vegetables, gourmet ice cream, and hand-rolled soft pretzels made on site. An outdoor petting zoo runs April through November, backed by a children's play area and picnic grounds.
That combination — a working bakery plus a family-oriented shopping stop — is deliberate rather than incidental; the crafts, the zoo and the play areas exist to give visitors reasons to stay once they've bought the pie. Ten years of the same local shoo-fly pie award suggests the core product hasn't needed much help holding up its end.
Best for — Award-winning shoo-fly pie and whoopie pies
Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, USA
Where next
- Reeve the Baker — United Kingdom
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- Teufner – Die Bäckerei — Austria
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