Paper Route Bakery

FREE COOKIES THIS WEEKEND!!!

Mmhmm, you heard correctly. The first 35 customers in line each day Friday-Sunday will get a free cookie, courtesy of Yelp], with the purchase of a slice of cake! Details below.

Over the last four years, y’all’s kind reviews and glamorous food pics on
Yelp] have helped Paper Route Bakery grow from a childhood dream to a full-fledged reality. This week, we were named on Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat in Texas list... in the number one spot!!! It’s, bonkers.

To celebrate, is going to hook up the first 35 customers each day Friday-Sunday (May 27-29) with a free cookie! To claim your cookie, all you have to do is enter Yelp’s “Deep in the Stomach of Texas” sweepstakes! It’s free to enter, and you could win $10,000. Show us proof of entry at the window and buy a slice of cake, and we hand you our world famous Chocolate Chip Milkshake Cookie alongside it. Sounds like a good deal to me!

We will be giving away one cookie per person, along with purchase of a slice of cake. Person must be physically present at the sales window to claim their cookie. Quantities are limited, so I’m afraid we will not be selling any cookies this weekend or reserving any cookies via pre-order.

Open hours:
Friday - 4 - 7 pm
Saturday - 11 am - 4 pm
Sunday - 11 am - 4 pm

Link to sweepstakes:

https://www.yelp.com/texasgiveaway?utm_campaign=deepinthestomachsweepstakes&utm_source=communityflyers

MOTHER’S DAY CAKE GIVEAWAY!!

For Mother’s Day each year, my family drives to a little backroad about an hour east of Austin to pick wild dewberries alongside the railroad tracks. It’s, so much fun. When you first get out of the car, all you see is thicket. Wild, hungry, all-consuming thicket. The air is hot and muggy and peppered heavily with mosquitoes. You wade your way into a sea of brambles, holding your arms out by your sides. You pick a spot that feels right and you crouch down, staring blankly ahead in a single direction. You wait a couple minutes, and your eyes adjust, and suddenly in the midst of all that thicket, hidden in the shade of jagged leaves, you see... a berry. All at once, you see ten more. Then a hundred! Then a thousand, too many to count, the brambles baring forth an endless bounty of big, beautiful dewberries just for you.

Thank you Mom , for showing me how to look closely at things. For sitting patiently with me in discomfort and wilderness. For showing me the beauty and the joy and all the riches hidden in the thicket.

For this giveaway! Tag your mom, your aunt, your grandma, or any human being who has shown you maternal love, and take a moment to thank them for a lesson they taught you about life.

Both of you hit “follow” on Paper Route Bakery, and you’ll be eligible to win!

We’ll pick a winner tomorrow morning (Saturday, May 7), and both you and the person you tagged will be invited to come by this weekend for two free slices of cake - EACH!

Plus, we’ll have our new Seasonal Special this weekend, which I designed to evoke that experience of picking wild berries. Dewberries are hard to find in proper bulk, so I went with blackberry instead.

Introducing, the Blackberry Lullaby!

Blackberry chiffon cake with pine nut and cardamom crust, a blackberry ganache infused with toasted pine milk, sage, honeysuckle, and juniper, and a black tea Chantilly cream. With a dark chocolate pour-over on top, because, hey, my mom loves chocolate

We will also have six full-size 6” Blackberry Lullaby cakes available to pick up this weekend, which are up for grabs on a first come first serve basis! DM to reserve yours ASAP!

WELP, tonight is the Tastemaker Awards, and I’ve been nominated for Pastry Chef of the Year! I am truly honored to be listed among such talented, hard working, and prestigious chefs (scroll to the right to see the full list!)

I’ve never called myself a Pastry Chef, because I didn’t go to culinary school, and lack familiarity with some of the fundamentals usually associated with that moniker. But, whatever it is I do (maybe we’ll call it baking), I take it EXTREMELY seriously, and have spent my lifetime learning from the craft. It means the world to be recognized by my community for my work in such a succinct and tangible way.

These are 5 things I love about baking, in no particular order.

1) It connects me to my family (who are all, incredibly talented chefs), and to my heritage. When my great grandmother immigrated to Texas from Ukraine in the 1890s, one of the only things she brought with her was a bread bowl for kneading Challah, carved from a single tree trunk. That bowl is currently in my parents’ kitchen, holding fresh oranges & pita chips.

2) The chaos of it all! People go to the gym to fight gravity, and even though it’s a losing battle, it makes them stronger. I come to the bakery to fight chaos, and I lose, constantly, but I am stronger for it.

3) The magic! I take grains & berries & flowers from the earth and grind them into powders & goops, and I mix those into a potion or a treat that makes people feel something. With intuition & the labor of my own two hands, I am able to imbue the dust of the universe with value, and If that’s not alchemy, I don’t know what is.

4) Baking has 1 quality that makes it kind of unique among the various forms of artistic expression: the final product is supposed to be something that people... enjoy. The imperative to create pleasure is a pretty tremendous constraint, and it forces me to be creative in a really specific and interesting way.

5) The people. Bakers tend to be grounded, hyper-competent, introspective empaths. They’re the kind of people you’d want on your life raft, and let me just say, I would sail the ocean blue with my Paper Route team.

With all my love, thank you Austin

This weekend is your LAST CHANCE to try our January special - the Chocolate Raspberry Limousine!

Chocolate feather fudge cake with a black onyx cocoa crust, a raspberry ganache infused with rosemary and , fresh Organic raspberries and a chocolate Chantilly cream on top

My mom makes me a chocolate raspberry cake for my birthday every year (love you mom!), and Lo and behold, it’s become one of my all-time favorite flavor combinations. This cake is equal parts dangerous and comforting, titillating and nostalgic. It’s a liminal flavor space where the tart zing of a fresh raspberry crashes brazenly into the bittersweet comfort of a chocolate shore. It tastes like growing up, like a peak behind the red velvet curtain, like riding to prom in a limousine.

Available by the slice (along with the rest of our signature cakes) 4-7 pm today and 11 am - 4 pm this weekend, or until sold out! See y’all sooon!

WE’RE BRINGING COOKIES BACK! One day only (December 23). Pre-orders only. Link in bio!

recently named Paper Route the BEST COOKIES in TEXAS! We are honored and also a lil bit flabbergasted - we had put a pause on selling cookies back in August, when we decided to focus our bakery exclusively on cakes...

BUT, clearly the people have spoken, and the people want cookies, so we will be doing a special round of our world famous cookies just in time for the holiday break! We will have all of our Paper Route classics available (chocolate chip milkshake, anyone?), as well as a few lesser-known recipes from the Paper Route vault.

Cookies are baked in small batches and may sell out, so place your pre-orders ASAP!

Thank you to our mega-talented friend for this beautiful photo and to for the award!