A new bakeshop has opened in Peckville, though its pastries and owner might look familiar to some.<\/p>\n
Kendal Johnson is the owner and chief baker of Lulu\u2019s Bakeshop, which formerly had the name of Kendal\u2019s Cakery Kreations. The business was open during summers only for several years while Johnson learned about both baking and running a business during her time at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport.<\/p>\n
Having graduated this past May, however, the 21-year-old Dickson City resident has now become free enough to make baking her full-time business. With this development came several other changes that Johnson says were long overdue.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiving (the business) a new name is something I\u2019ve been planning since I was in college,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cBut since it was just a seasonal and holiday thing until now, I held off doing anything until I graduated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lulu\u2019s Bakeshop was a renaming with a more personal connection: \u201cLulu\u201d is her nickname for her grandmother, the person who got her interested and passionate about baking when she was younger. What started out as the two of them making holiday cookies together every year has become a one-person operation, where her grandmother and other family members only help out Johnson when there are large orders or several of them at once to complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like having control over the baking process, but they\u2019re always happy to help out when I need it,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Johnson has had her fair share of experience in professional kitchens, having taken on two different internships while at Penn College. One of them was at the Sweeterie, the bakery below the Chocolatier at Hersheypark, while the other one sent her down to the Kentucky Derby in Louisville to work on both the baking and culinary sides of the process during the events of the day.<\/p>\n
Compared to those kitchens, where the recipes ruled and there were very strict guidelines on what flourishes could and couldn\u2019t be added, making orders under Lulu\u2019s is very freeing for Johnson and is exactly what she grew to love so much about baking in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdding my special touch to things is what makes it fun \u2026 I\u2019m mostly making orders as they come in, so I can do more than I could\u2019ve ever done working at my internships,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n
Located at 1000 Main St. in Peckville, Lulu\u2019s is beginning its life as a by-order bakeshop: Cookies, cakes, cupcakes and several other items are being offered, but they must be called ahead and ordered for the time being.<\/p>\n
Johnson plans to do occasional pop-ups where there are items available in the case, with the very first one during the Aug. 29 soft opening being a smash hit. But until she is in a stable enough position with the business to hire help, she says it\u2019s the choice that makes the most sense both financially and personally.<\/p>\n
The next pop-up will be a Halloween one on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., with fall and spooky-themed baked goods being available at that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019ll be pop-ups for \u2026 all of the big baking times of the year. I\u2019ll probably stick with this for the first year or so while I see how many people come in and what they\u2019d like to see,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the shape that the business ends up taking, Johnson is incredibly grateful she\u2019s now able to make a career out of what she loves. She spent six years at Penn College, with each half of her time there focused on either business or baking, and she can now put what she\u2019s learned into practice full-time.<\/p>\n
To order from Lulu\u2019s Bakeshop, or to find out what pop-ups are happening next, follow the bakery\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> or contact Johnson at 570-614-6807.<\/p>\n More info<\/p>\n Lulu\u2019s Bakeshop, Kendal Johnson\u2019s baking business, is located at 1000 Main St. in Peckville. The by-order bakeshop offers cookies, cakes, cupcakes and several other items, but they must be called ahead and ordered for the time being. To order or find out about upcoming pop-ups, follow the bakery\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> or contact Johnson at 570-614-6807.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new bakeshop has opened in Peckville, though its pastries and owner might look familiar to some. Kendal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,1099,201,3052,28,178,180,179,3053,3054],"class_list":["post-305596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-blakely","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-midvalley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-valley-advantage","tag-valley-advantage-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}