Roseville Bakery Celebrating 60th Anniversary This Month

For the Roseville Bakery, this June is especially sweet. 
The small independent bake shop-known for its cinnamon rolls, coffee cakes, donuts, cupcakes and cookies- is celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. 
That milestone is coming during one of the bakery's busiest times of the year; its 15 employees are working overtime to keep up with customer demand for cakes, cupcakes and other treats for graduation celebrations and weddings, said shop  owner Amy Ament.
"June is huge," said Ament, who has owned the popular bake shop, 1147 Larpenteur Ave., for the past eight years. "There are a lot of busy weekends in a row. We do a ton of cakes this time of the year."  
The most popular wedding cake?  Marble cake, which is a mix of white and chocolate cake, or the "I can't make a decision cake," Ament joked. 
During this month, the Bakery is baking goodies close to around the clock, she said.
Besides heavy customer demand for cakes and other bakery goodies for graduations and weddings, the Roseville Bakery is also serving five Farmers' Markets this summer, (It is in Little Canada on Mondays, Shoreview and Forest Lake on Tuesdays, Scandia on Wednesdays and Cottage Grove on Thursdays.)
Ament said her bakery will be supplying some 200 to 300 dozen buns per week to Farmers Market vendors who will use the baked dough for sandwiches and hot dogs. 
Among the bakery's most popular items are also gourmet cupcakes and Yiddish cookies known as hamantashs,  "We started with two flavors (of Yiddish cookies) and now are making eight," Ament said.  
Asked what she likes best about owning the bakery, Ament said, "The people are great and the variety of things we do."