BELLEFONTE When Tammy Hodges isn’t busy crunching numbers as an accountant, she’s whipping up sweet treats for her bakery, Burgundy Rose Bakery, newly housed in Titan Market.
Titan Market, located at 2042 Axemann Road, is an indoor vendor market that features a range of local businesses, farmers, crafts people and artisans. Burgundy Rose Bakery opened in the market in May and has since left mouths watering with an array of baked goods.
“I am an accountant by trade, but I have been baking all of my life,” Hodges shared.
After falling in love with baking, Hodges started her first at-home bakery in 2009, making treats for family, friends and acquaintances. After moving to Iowa City, Iowa, in 2012, she started attending local farmers markets to sell her baked goods. However, Hodges soon moved back to Pennsylvania and decided to open her first storefront. But due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, she had to put her business on hold again.
Now, she has returned in full force, selling her sweet treats at Titan Market.
“When I first was at Titan Market, talking with Corinna (Anskis, founder of Titan Market) and some of the other vendors, they made it feel like you’re really a part of something. Everyone is there to help everyone else, and they all have the same goal of making the market a success,” Hodges said while sharing what initially drew her to Titan Market.
“Everyone makes you feel welcome there. It feels really good to be a part of a small community that is focused on bringing things back, revitalizing and reutilizing spaces and revitalizing the area,” she said. “We really just want to try to make it that people come to the venue and see that we’re not just one thing. They can come there, get their produce, they can get their baked goods, food, there’s a little cafe, people who do wood crafting. It’s almost like one stop shopping in one location.”
From cupcakes and cookies to gluten-free cheesecakes, cinnamon rolls, muffins and more, Burgundy Rose Bakery has a rotating range of individually packaged baked goods that are made fresh each week.
“Everything is fresh. It is all made from scratch by me. There are no preservatives in anything I do. So what you see this week, you will not see next week,” Hodges said. “Everything must be fresh. I try to use the best ingredients. I do use some things from the market. We have a produce vendor that I get strawberries and other things from him. If I can, I try to use local.”
In addition to Hodges’s fresh pastries, Burgundy Rose Bakery also accepts orders for custom full-sized cakes. Her one of a kind cakes can be ordered by emailing burgundyrosebakery@gmail.com or through the bakery’s Facebook page.
With the community in mind, Hodges is also expanding into offering different classes on a month-to-month basis. Her first event, a cookie decorating class for children, will be on Saturday, June 29, at 11 a.m. at Titan Market. Currently, she plans on hosting an adult cupcake decorating class in July and cupcake decorating class for children in August and hopes to rotate between children and adult classes each month.
The event on Saturday, June 29, is $15 and will cover the basics on how to decorate cookies.
