Grandma's Bakery

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    Open6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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    1765 Buerkle Rd

    White Bear Lake, MN 55110

    Mon

    • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Tue

    • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Wed

    • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Thu

    • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Fri

    • 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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    Sat

    • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

    Sun

    • 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM

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    About the Business

    Established in 1978. The Lupo family opened the bakery doors for the first time on a hot summer day in the middle of July of 1978. We started out as a Mister Donut franchise on the East side of St. Paul and from the beginning we've been known for fun, donuts, and great customer service! Grandma's Bakery is proud to continue our baking tradition generation after generation. The first few years were hard and business was slow. From the beginning, John Lupo ran the day to day operations and worked very hard to become the best baker he could. We added cakes, cookies, rolls and breads to the bakery line up and the business began to grow. In December of 1980 we remodeled the Prosperity Avenue store and changed the name to Grandma's Bakery to reflect the wide variety of products we were making. About this time we also started to deliver our products to some wholesale accounts in the area. Our first wholesale order was a delivery for one dozen donuts to a local hotel that was experimenting with a continental b

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      Do you have crullers?

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      Yes. They're on the menu as French Donuts. https://www.grandmasbakery.com/donuts-and-rolls

      Krista M. 
      4 years ago
    • Q:

      Do you bake carrot cake?

      A:

      Hi Sheri! Yes! We make very delicious carrot cake, in fact, it's one of our most popular cakes. You can call to place on order ahead of time or we typically have a couple carrot cake tortes on hand in our stores to just stop in and grab! Thank… more

      Stephanie S., Business Owner 
      7 years ago 1 person found this helpful

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      Anthony G.
      Payne-Phalen, Saint Paul, MN
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      Best donuts ever had the price amazing highly recommended coming employees are one of the best persons ever

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      Kendall O.
      West Bank, Minneapolis, MN
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      Dec 17, 2023

      If you knew the old grandma's bakery.
      You would have said they got way over priced. And they cut there stock in half.
      They still provide great cakes, and doughnuts. Good tasting. In the short time I was there. They missed an order of cookies for a lady. She had to come back later that day.
      I had two dozen doughnuts ordered assortment. Had to take some cinnamon rolls and danishes to make the assortment. I never seen the shelves so empty. By the time I was done the 2 dozen was over 50.00.

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      Amy M.
      Minnetonka, MN
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      Aug 4, 2023

      We got our wedding cutting cake and sheet cakes from Grandmas Bakery.... let me tell you... it was SO GOOD! Everyone loved it, so moist, perfect texture, and the frosting was amazing!!!

      Sign & florals added by us, cake from Grandma's Bakery!
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      Wonderful donuts at Grandma's. Get there early for the best selection. Staff is very friendly!

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      Karen F.
      Hugo, MN
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      Jun 2, 2023

      My wedding cake was from Grandma's in 2007 and have been a loyal and happy customer since then. The people and product had always been great. However, today was the first time going since the new ownership. I could not believe the price and quality difference. Bismarks are $4 each! For a dozen, nothing special donuts, I paid over $31. When selecting the donuts from the case, I asked the person helping me if the donuts in the case were from yesterday as they looked dry, and the sugars had melted away on some of the donuts. She laughed and said no. When I arrived at work and ate one, I was very disappointed. The donut was dry and tasteless. This seems to be truly the local company bought by an organization that has different goals that the previous ownership.

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      Jen S.
      Saint Paul, MN
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      Oct 15, 2019

      My husband had been wanting to visit this bakery since he stumbled upon it while working.

      He took me there and we walked out with About 20$ of goodies all delicious. This bakery bakes large quantities and supplies other retailers and convenience stores. The manufacturing of the goodies was easily to see and neat to watch for a bit. They had some samples to try.

      Looking for treats for your fur babies? They have them here. My dog seemed to like them!

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      Julie B.
      Minneapolis, MN
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      Apr 4, 2020

      I was expecting to visit the Grandma's Bakery in DT WBL. However, Google Maps took me to the Grandma's WHOLESALE Bakery in Maplewood, right near 694/hwy 61 on a service road in a business park. If visiting from another city, make sure you enter the correct address!!
      (I had looked at multiple bakeries in the TC this morning and thought I had mixed up my locations. Nope...I was right just clicked on the wrong Google address.)

      Wholesale bakery still had a retail entrance. Tiny storefront compared to what I expected. Still able to purchase what in wanted. Was cool to see big baking operation going on behind counter. Next time I'll make sure to actually visit the correct location.

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      Andrew J.
      Two Harbors, MN
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      Jul 30, 2022

      Donuts were really really good, but I was quite disappointed that they didn't have anything unique as pictured on yelp. The only thing they had was plain Jane donuts. Just the kind that you would see at a gas station. Oh I was really hoping for a Keylime doughnut or a coconut doughnut no just a regular Maple/Chocolate/vanilla doughnut

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      Molly S.
      Union Grove, WI
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      Jul 4, 2020

      Awesome birthday cake (marble with buttercream)! Called on Wednesday for pick up on Friday and it was no trouble. Our go to cake spot in the Twin Cities.

      The hamburger and hotdog buns are delicious too!

      Couldn't do the Grinch but came up with a little "Christmas in July" birthday cake.
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      Krista M.
      Saint Paul, MN
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      This marks the seventh year that we've gotten a birthday cake here! (Where does the time go?!) This year, our peanut wanted a cat themed party and I searched through their entire catalog of cakes online -- not a single cat! :(

      I helped my son pick out an alternative cake with lots of frosting and I just happened to mention all of this in passing to my husband. "I'll talk to them! I'll tell them to have some artistic freedom!" ...and he did! The guy and gal who took our cake order were AWESOME! They were so helpful and said it was no problem to order something customized like that.

      The result was adorable! This is a fantastic bakery and we're lucky to have them right here in White Bear Lake!

      Kitty cake!
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