Get some holiday baking in Alfred!

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The shelves at Bakery of Heidi and Willy in Alfred are filled daily, but you need to move quickly because the store itself will close in a few weeks for winter.

The business model of being open early October to December 31 represents a life choice made by the husband-and-wife team of veteran bakers, Heidi and Willy Suter, yet it has become a very successful one.

Sondra Lemothe, Willy Suter, Heidi Suter.

“People have asked us, ‘Why only three months open? Why can you not open the whole year?’ I tell them, it’s a choice of living for us. We’ve worked all our lives. Very hard,” says Heidi.

After their arrival in Canada in 1992, the pair operated several commercial bakeries before settling into a smaller, and simply named, business on County Road 17.

The bakery with stainless-steel pastry sheeter, Hobart floor mixer, ovens, pastry tables and other equipment was established in 1994: it’s at least three times the size of the more recently added retail store, sales counter and shelves packed with cakes, cookies and other assorted and sundry pastries.

It’s a culmination of two lives spent as bakers …

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