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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI allmark movies often portray smalltown life with a beloved bakery as the community hub.

Edible Delights is that bakery in the small community of Montague, serving up homemade treats that t anyone’s sweet tooth. The bakery, located at 8851 Water St., opened in February 2021 with a commitment to share the love of baking with the rest of the community.

Autumn Brown, the owner of Edible Delights, started the business to support her and her two daughters. Baking was a hobby that Brown turned into a business. When she was growing up, she said both sides of her family encouraged her to pursue her talents.

Everything Brown bakes is from scratch; most are from family recipes or experimental recipes that she has concocted.

One of the newest experiments Brown tried her hand at was the French macaron in many different avors. The delicate sandwich cookies are $2 each.

“That has been a crazy journey since those are super hard and nicky to make. Just recently, I don’t know if I would con dently say I conquered them though, but I have had a pretty good success rate lately.”

Brown said the treat that everyone wants to get their hands on is her carrot cake, being super popular for all occasions. Customers can buy a whole cake for $40 or can have bite-sized portions of the carrot cake in cupcakes and muf ns for $3.25 each.

Another fan favorite at the bakery is the cheesecakes, which are giant, three-inch tall pieces of cake in different avors such as raspberry swirl or peanut butter and sell

One of the newest items on the menu is the tiramisu with a vanilla cake recipe from scratch, soaking in strong coffee. Instead of buying the mascarpone cheese to add to it, Brown makes her own with heavy cream, sour cream, cream cheese and vanilla extract. A slice of the cake costs $3.

If a customer is looking for a snack instead of a lling dessert, Edible Delights sells smaller bites such as peaches and cream scones, chocolate chip cookies and cake pops for $2 each.

Brown said her most underrated item is the blueberry bread pudding for $3, which is made with homemade rum caramel sauce and in muf n form.

“This past week, we did the bread pudding, and then on Saturday with every person that came in, we just gave them one because there’s a lot of it, and the people that do have it, they were like ‘Oh my gosh, I didn’t think it was like this,’” Brown said.

Brown likes to change up the menu seasonally, making new items to t the season such as a peppermint scone for Christmas and a pumpkin one for the fall. The citrus cheesecake is the newest for summer, bringing light avors for the sunny season.

The bakery is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

The bakery is closed Sunday through Tuesday. The business can be reached at 231-343-3010

Edible Delights is also not only making delightful treats for human consumption. Six months ago, the bakery started making dog treats, starting at $1 and is now moving up to dog cakes for special occasions. Puppy birthday cakes are $15, and cupcakes are $5, depending on the size of your pup.

Along with all the menu items, people can also place custom orders at the bakery.

Brown said she loves baking for the community because she feels when customers come into the bakery that she is actually cooking for her family.

“We’re just a humble small-town bakery trying to appeal to each person that walks in the door,” Brown said. “That’s why we have so many different items because everybody that walks in, I want them to nd something that they love.”

Brown gives back to the community as part of her business, starting Freebie Fridays, where she takes the extras she didn’t sell over the week, and drops them off at local re or ambulance stations.

She loves that the bakery reminds people of a Hallmark movie. She said Christmas is her favorite time to decorate the bakery to make it look and feel like “a little Hallmark place.”

“It’s all decorated and a lot of people say it just looks like a little bakery out of a Hallmark movie, so that’s kind of what the feel is like,” Brown said.