About Peyton's Bakery
Peyton's Bakery is a bakery in West End, North Carolina. It makes cakes, pastries, doughnuts and scones.
A short guide to the four bakes
General background on each kind of bake. These notes describe the styles in general, not Peyton's own recipes.
- Cakes
- A layer cake is sponge stacked with a filling between the layers and covered in frosting. Size and number of layers decide how many people it feeds.
- Pastries
- Croissants and danishes get their flaky layers from butter folded into the dough again and again before it's shaped and baked.
- Doughnuts
- Yeast doughnuts are light and airy. Cake doughnuts use a batter raised with baking powder and come out denser.
- Scones
- Scones are a quick bread. The dough is mixed only briefly so they stay tender, then baked until the tops turn golden.
About the photos
The pictures on this site are AI-generated illustrations of the kinds of things Peyton's makes. They don't show the bakery's actual cakes, staff or shop. To see what's on offer, ask the bakery directly.
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