Meet Thipayapa Thanyadolchanokdech, aka Emily Roper, owner and baker at Bake Me House, 414 N Church Street, Hendersonville, NC. She’s been baking since before landing in Hendersonville a couple years ago, but this is her first brick and mortar bakery. Officially opened this past March 4th.
I can’t imagine the hours she keeps, doing everything herself! By that I mean not only baking everything you see in the shop, but making drink ingredients and syrups, cleaning all the equipment she and her husband had installed in the back, and cleaning the public-facing shop. I drove by before the shop’s opening and she was out front cleaning the windows and door glass.
Some people refer to Bake Me House as a “Thai Bakery”. I’d say it’s an “Asian-influenced” bakery from cookies to cakes to drinks. In general that means less sweet, but delicious.
DRINKS
A few Thai drinks are available (see images). I tried the Milk Tea with Cream Cheese Mousse. It’s made with “Premium Black Tea, creamer powder, and brown sugar syrup”.
IN THE CASES
This day the smaller one on the counter held cookies you’re used to seeing like Chocolate Chip and Red Velvet. The larger case held the fun stuff – Japanese Cheese Cake (link to Emily describing Japanese vs NY Cheesecake), Matcha Cake, Coconut Cake, and more, all sold by the slice in containers.
I left with a slice of the Coconut Cake to share later with Bill. We both loved it. The frosting on top was so light and fluffy. Probably her Whipped Cream Cheese Mousse. The cake itself was a little denser than I expected, moist, had small pieces of pineapple throughout, and was just sweet enough. So good! Friends Barrie and Mark tried and liked many of the cakes. They feel all of them were low in sodium and sugar.
If you’re interested, Emily uses pretty top notch ingredients: Matcha, Chocolate, Butter. Browse through the photos on the bakery’s Facebook Page and you should be able to spot her ingredient posts.
