The Cake & Spoon

The Cake and Spoon is an Austin, TX bakery run by owner Melissa Brinckmann, offering handcrafted pastries, pies, quiche, and wedding cakes from a commercial kitchen on the East side of Austin. Known for a wide pie selection including pecan, key lime, bourbon banana, and buttermilk varieties, with the pecan pie made using browned butter and pecans from Millican Pecan in San Saba, Texas; quiche made with local eggs from Texas Food Ranch is also a farmer's market staple. Melissa Brinckmann began working in Austin kitchens in the late 1970s, spent two years training in the bakery at Green Pastures Restaurant under a CIA-trained pastry chef, and launched Cake and Spoon at the SFC Downtown Farmer's Market in August 2009. Available at the SFC Downtown Farmer's Market, the SFC Sunset Valley Farmers' Market, and the Cedar Park Market; wholesale providers also carry products, and all orders require pickup as delivery is not offered. Reviewers frequently praise the pie crust as light and flaky, highlight specific flavors including pecan, key lime, and bourbon banana as standouts, and note Melissa's warm presence at the market.