Flour Power
BY ANGELA K. ROBERTS
PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE PETKOV
Flour Mill Bakery, Rossville
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Sandra Hufford and her sister, Sheryl, started the Flour Mill
Bakery in 1996 in Hufford’s house, “literally in the middle of
prefer
sourdough
the cornfield,” she says. While the sisters had not intended to sell donuts, word had gotten around town that a donut shop
bread or
was opening, and so they added them to the menu. “Donuts
cupcakes,
approximately 450 dozen per week.” After Hufford’s sister
cheesecake
location on State Road 26 in Rossville, the bakery sells donuts,
frosting-stuffed
have always been our biggest seller,” Hufford says. “We sell moved on to other ventures, Hufford sold the business in
vegan
2016, only to repurchase it three years later. At its current
or flourless
salads, soups, espresso drinks and deli meats and cheeses.
chocolate tortes,
Greater Lafayette
bakeries
offer something
for nearly every taste and
dietary restriction.
After contacting
shop owners and asking locals
recommendations
for
—
and trying some
pies, cookies and angel food cakes, along with homemade
Gigi’s Cupcakes, Lafayette gigiscupcakesusa.com
As a young girl in Wolcott, Indiana, Brittany Gerber loved
watching her mom decorate wedding cakes and began dabbling in the art as soon as she was old enough. After attending Purdue University and working in customer service for several years, Gerber purchased the Lafayette Gigi’s franchise in 2019, where she serves up cupcakes, cakes, cookies stuffed with frosting, macarons, cheesecakes, cake truffles and miniature cupcakes. Three gluten-friendly options are on the menu every day, including the GF Triple Chocolate Torte. Custom cakes and vegan options are also available by special order. An annual sponsor of the Cupcake Run/Walk for the Public Schools Foundation of Tippecanoe County, Gigi’s donated 1,248 cupcakes for race participants in 2019.
on our own — we compiled a list of some of the
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