Winter Holiday 2024.
We LOVE WinterHoliday baking.
We approach this holiday season with a theme we call Season of Wonder — think more snowflakes, sparkly stars, classic evergreen trees, and woodland creatures than Santas and Rudolphs. We love working with elements of the season, sugared cranberries and herbs, bright candied citrus and a sprinkling of powdered sugar “snow”.
This year, the timing of Christmas on the calendar is a tricky one - we’ll be baking right up to it, with different offerings each week as we get through the month. We’ll start up our cookie baking with selections of ginger and shortbreads that can be picked up in-shop with no pre-order, and then we’ll start rocking out the thousands of cookies for pick-up starting the weekend of Dec 12-15 - stars and snowflakes to start and then transitioning to our woodland creatures and trees and pops of festive color for boxes the following weekend. Our pretty holiday cakes will be available Dec 20-24. And then we will rest with our families Dec 25+26, have a prep-day on Dec 26th and re-open on Saturday Dec 28th.
We’ll be doing cream puffs for pick-up on New Year’s Eve Tuesday from noon-4pm, and then the shop will be closed and re-open on Friday, January 10th. We will still take limited cake orders during that time, but we will not have regular retail walk-in hours - we’ll be using the time to deep clean and do some planning and dreaming about all we want to bring you in the new year.
Winter Holiday - we call it The Season of Wonder, with all things merry + bright, and all of our baked goods both delicious + whimsically festive.
EDIT - Dec 17 5:30pm — online ordering is now closed and we are at capacity for all pre-orders before Christmas. You may still click the link below to order New Year’s cream puffs. We will take A VERY LIMITED number of cake orders for the weekend of Dec 28+29 - please call if you’d like to inquire about that option. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who got orders in and THANK YOU to all who love and support us!
Please please please READ BELOW before clicking over to order - if you don’t, you’ll likely make some mistake or call us and ask some question that will put you on our naughty list.
This is gonna be a wild one, friends - but we love it!! Baking for you during the holidays is an absolute blast for us, but the way the holiday falls on the calendar this year makes it feel all condensed and tricky - we’re gonna be working our butts off and we ask for a little bit of help from you in keeping it streamlined and organized.
You’ll notice that the menu has categories for pick-up over multiple weeks. PLEASE slow down and stop and think about and make note of the day you choose (from the drop-down menu) for your pick-up. PLEASE please please please please, call us if you have questions 267.740.2354 but do not call us to ask us what day or time your pick-up is; it’s on your receipt. If you did not get an emailed receipt, it means your order did not go through. PLEASE please please please please PLEASE do not call us and ask to change your pick-up date; you likely have no idea what a nightmare the back-end of this ordering system is and what a kink it puts in our workload to make a seemingly simple switch like that - it causes our numbers to shift all over the place and we need all that time for BAKING, not doing paperwork. Last bit of snarkiness: not all items are available all weeks/days — we just cannot do ALL.OF.THE.THINGS for ALL.OF.THE.DAYS. If an item is not listed for a particular day, no, I am sorry, we will not have that item available for pick-up that day. We’re doing our best!
But now that we’re clear with that — HOORAY! Holiday goodness!!!! You will see that the way Christmas falls on the calendar makes it tricky this year - we will be baking every single day for two weeks straight to pull this off. We are not accepting pre-order pick-ups on Sunday, Dec 22 because we need that day to prepare for the main crunch on Monday. We will offer ONLY the items on the menu Dec 20-24 — if you need a birthday cake, please choose one of the cake options there and make note or call us to decorate for birthday, not holiday.
In addition to the items on the pre-order menu, we will be rocking out as many sweet and festive ready-to-go bakes as we can that will be available in the shop: smaller cookie boxes, little cakes, individual decorated cookies and more. We also have a sweet selection of gifts on our retail shelves! Come on over and spend some time with us. :)
If this is not your first holiday with FactoryGirl, you know that the Buche de Noel sells out QUICKLY. This is a tricky one because, as a whipped cream filled cake, we bake them fresh for each day of orders and it’s one of those tricky things - only so many hours in the day, and only so much space in our tiny kitchen with limited fridges (and we do have three big fridges!) SO —- order those ones as soon as you can! Ordering opens 3pm on Sunday December 8th. Til then, you can preview the menu here and please do call if you have any questions: https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/factory-girl-bake-shop-new-hope-2
Happy happy happy holidays to you all! We are always so honored to bake for you and your loved ones and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for letting us be a part of your festive season!
