Highly Anticipated Abby Jane Bakeshop Opens in Dripping Springs, Texas

After many sold-out pop-ups, pastry chef Abby Love’s extremely anticipated bakery is lastly opening in Dripping Springs. Abby Jane Bakeshop will open at 16604 Fitzhugh Highway, inside Texas grain facility Barton Springs Mill, on Thursday, January 21, for patio dine-in service and takeout orders.

Abby Jane Bakeshop may have a wide range of breads and pastries on a rotating menu. Meaning challah, baguettes, croissants crammed with chocolate from Austin chocolatier Srsly, and the “Queen P” — a kouign amann crammed with a candy pecan paste and topped with caramel. Head baker Pamela Thibodeaux might be answerable for muffins, out there by-the-slice and as customized orders. There can even be a chilly case with objects like cheese plates, rooster salad, and smoked beet and rye berry salad, in addition to wood-fired pizzas, from a margherita to a buffalo chickpea pizza.

The bakeshop may have espresso drinks made with beans from Austin espresso roaster Wild Present, in addition to beers, ciders, and wines from native producers like Lewis Wines and Roughhouse Brewing. Abby Jane can even carry a few of Barton Springs Mill’s merchandise for retail sale, in addition to merch and a sourdough starter pack.

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Love focuses on utilizing sustainable Texas merchandise, and all the baked items are made with grains from Barton Springs Mill, which required some changes to her recipes. “The product we purchase in shops is a shelf-stable a part of the wheat berry that makes issues tall, candy, mild, and fluffy,” she explains. As a result of Barton Springs implements a special milling course of, “the flour is alive and, from harvest to reap, it’s going to be a little bit completely different, which I believe is an superior problem, but additionally requires a smaller scale and slower tempo of issues.”

Love’s baking profession began in an East Coast bakery, the place she says the husband-and-wife house owners have been so determined for day off that they taught her all elements of the bake store. From there, she started to work as a pastry chef as a result of the roles within the area have been extra plentiful.

Finally, Love turned the opening pastry chef at nose-to-tail restaurant Dai Due in Austin in 2014. She was closely influenced by restaurant’s philosophy of native, sustainable sourcing. Although she gained consideration for her pastry creations, “I felt like I used to be dishonest,” says Love. “I’m not doing something particular, I’m simply beginning with a greater product.”

Love finally left Dai As a consequence of get again to her love of baking. “I received burnt out on the restaurant life-style,” she explains, “eating places are about plated desserts and that’s that.” Quickly, she was approached by James Brown, the proprietor of Barton Springs Mill, and, as she put it: “As soon as James Brown involves you and says, ‘Do you wish to put a bakery inside a flour mill?’, it’s over after that.”

There’s classroom area inside Barton Springs Mill, and Love will present up as a visitor teacher as soon as the academic program is established.

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]

The bakery (originally called L’Oven) was scheduled to open on the finish of 2019, however the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated delays with building and allowing. This result in all these pop-ups, which helped elevate cash for the extra tasks and plans, for instance, outside furnishings like patio tables that weren’t within the unique blueprint. “I’m actually enthusiastic about [the bakeshop] present,” Love says. “I really feel so grateful to all of the individuals who have been driving this curler coaster with me.”

Abby Jane Bakeshop might be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Gadgets might be out there for outside eating or to-go orders positioned in individual or online.

Abby Jane Bakeshop [Official]