About Us
The Village Bakery is a full-service bakery that offers artisan breads, pastries, cookies, petit fours, specialty desserts, and cakes for all occasions.
Pastry Chef/Owner Karen Child oversees a talented staff of bakers and pastry cooks who handcraft our baked goods in-house from the finest ingredients in the old world tradition of quality and freshness. Artisan breads, breakfast catering, gourmet cookie platters, petit fours platters, and celebration cakes are our main specialties.
We are pleased to serve Small World Coffee produced by Small World Roasters of Rocky Hill, NJ. Our café seating is perfect for taking a break to savor a cup of coffee or tea while treating yourself to one of our delicious pastries.
We carry a number of locally-produced food products on our retail shelves, including Honey from farms, natural fruit butters made by Muirhead Foods of Ringoes, NJ. We are also working with our friends at Lawrenceville's Cherry Grove Farm to incorporate some of their fine products into our menu as well as olive oil from Hopewell Valley Vineyards.
Pastry Chef Karen Child
Karen P. Child is a graduate of Peter Kump's New York Cooking School and student of Executive Pastry Chef & Author Nick Malgieri. Her 20 year career in the baking industry has included working as a Pastry Chef at the Peacock Inn, The Frog and The Peach, and The Witherspoon Bread Company. A culinary educator, Chef Child was an adjunct instructor at Mercer County Community College for 4 years where she taught the art and science of pastry and baking to students entering the culinary field. She mentors students on a regular basis through internships and classes held at her bakery, The Village Bakery in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Chef Child has owned and operated the Village Bakery since 2004, and is proud to be just the third owner of the bakery in it's fifty years of continuous operation.