Mother-Daughter Duo Tanya (left) and Barbara Outten launch full service bakery Bake Bahamas.
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Nassau,
Bahamas - Barbara Outten, owner of
Bake Bahamas, always knew
that her recipe for success would involve the baked goods she sold on holidays
while working as a banker in Grand Bahama. Her daughter, Tanya, remembers
spending college breaks helping her mother in the kitchen fill hundreds of
fruit cake orders.
In October 2002,
Barbs
Bakery opened and expanded product offerings to include elaborate
wedding cakes, specialty birthday cakes, cookies and other baked treats.
Barbara and Tanya ran the business for several years until the economic
downturn hit Freeport.
The two decided to close the storefront and return to a home-based business
model.
Bake Bahamas tempts guests at relaunch with the signature Fruit Cake that made the company a household name in Grand Bahama.
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This year, the mother-daughter duo
relaunched the company under a new name and new branding. The name,
Bake Bahamas, is
indicative of where the little bakery that could is headed—beyond the
boundaries of Grand Bahama and extending to the entire Bahamas and the world.
Shortbread cookie display at Bake Bahamas launch party.
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“We wanted to expand outside of our
existing market in Grand Bahama. Now, we are
able to ship throughout the country and are specifically looking at growing our
market share here in Nassau,”
said Tanya Outten, Creative Director at
Bake Bahamas. “I manage the Nassau operations and
we’re utilizing tools like Facebook and a new website to connect with customers
throughout the country and the world.”
Commemorative tins with new Bake Bahamas branding.
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The team will begin selling
wholesale items to major local retailers. They also worked with a lab in South Florida to determine specific food label content
for export items. Next year,
Bake Bahamas will export
Bahamian goods like rum cakes and fruitcakes around the world.
“It’s amazing to see how the
business has evolved throughout the years from something that I started as an
outlet and as a way to support my family to what we have here today,” said
Barbara Outten at a recent relaunch party held in Grand Bahama. The mother of
two (Tanya and Troy) and wife of Wilbur Outten,
Senior Pastor at Freeport
Bible Church,
is looking forward to the new direction her company is taking. “We’ve received
great reviews at recent events in Nassau
and people are now associating the new name with the great tastes we built the
business on.”
Bake Bahamas will be
showcased at the upcoming The Little Pink Party on December 7. For more information on Bake Bahamas their
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bake-Bahamas/434652746598058,
call 225-3373 or email bakebahamas@gmail.com
