Collin Street Bakery Blog

Summer is in full swing and it's hot, hot, hot! As you all try not to melt in the summer heat, we here at the Collin Street Bakery wanted to share with you, our loyal customers, a few updates on our temporarily limited product selection. Click inside our blog to discover more.

Chocolate is a dessert icon! Baked into cookies, drizzled over ice cream, or melted over fruit, there’s probably no dessert ingredient that’s more versatile. We wanted to know more about chocolate, so we’ve poked around in it’s history to uncover it’s bittersweet legacy.

Every year, on the third Sunday of June, we celebrate Father’s Day. It’s a yearly tradition started in the early 1900s, a few years after Mother’s Day. Better late than never, as a typical dad would say.

We sat down with Dan Hurd, one of the most inspirational humans we’ve ever met and the founder of the “One Pedal at a Time” movement - an organization created to connect people through the sport of cycling while starting a discussion about the importance of mental health. Check out our interview!

It’s a well-known fact our historic, family-owned-and-operated bakery has been making the world-famous DeLuxe® Fruitcake for over 100 years. But less known, is how Collin Street Bakery makes world-class desserts of all kinds. Desserts like our iconic cheesecakes. Sit back and we’ll tantalize you with a delicious description.

Have you received one of our cheesecakes as a gift, or are you considering purchasing one? Kick the flavor up a notch by topping your cheesecake with a homemade fruit sauce! Here you’ll find easy to follow steps on how to recreate these flavorful toppings.

Bob Kingman and his group of cycling buddies embark on a warm tradition every year: a 100 mile bike race in Wichita Falls, Texas. Learn about the event’s origins, Bob’s involvement and how fruitcake is fueling the process.

Don’t settle for an average gift for the world’s most amazing mom. Spoil your mom this Mother’s Day with a gift she’ll truly love. Shop our Mother’s Day specials today!

Recently, Collin Street posed this question to our loyal customers: "What do you do with your empty fruitcake tin?” Well, we asked and you answered. So we tallied all your answers, put them in categories, and crunched the math. Here’s our final breakdown of how our leftover tins are put to use.

Collin Street Bakery caught up with author and radio-host Harriet Baskas, an expert in really old food and museum memorabilia. Our conversation with Harriet shed light on some interesting items that museums keep in the dark.