SEATTLE — A giant rice krispy treat made with potato chips is just one of the unique temptations at new bakery and café Little Jaye.
"We're not dainty, we like big crazy things,” said co-owner Evan Carter. “Big cookies, big muffins, big biscuits."
He opened the new spot in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood with his three business partners from West Seattle’s Lady Jaye – a whiskey bar and barbeque restaurant.
That's where co-owner and Chef Charlie Garrison first started baking biscuits.
"And then it became muffins, and then it became chocolate chip cookies, and then it kind of got out of control,” Garrison said, laughing.
They held a weekly pop-up at Lady Jaye and sold out of hundreds of baked goods every time, so they decided to take the next step by opening off-shoot Little Jaye.
"There's not a lot of bakeries around here, but there's a lot of business activity,” Carter said. "There's great neighborhoods - South Park, Burien and White Center."
Their popular breakfast sandwiches are made with Lady Jaye meats, and the sweet treats are made with a lot of imagination.
"We just wanted to be ridiculous, people like fun, big things, right?” Carter said. “So we have our fruity pebbles rice krispy treat, our ruffles potato chip rice krispy treat, our bourbon brown butter rice krispy treat. (Garrison) handmakes biscuits every day, they're rolling the dough, they're cutting it, they're all different sizes, hand-crafted, it's really amazing."
Their full-service espresso bar serves coffee roasted in Ballard, and there’s also a full lunch menu with soups, salads and sandwiches.
"To me, this is fun because people are usually in a pretty good mood when they come and buy this stuff," Garrison said.
All of the service is overseen by three familiar faces: Dolly Parton, Anthony Bourdain and Bob Ross, in an American Gothic painting commissioned by Carter to honor three of the owners’ favorite celebrities.
"And hey, if you don't like those people, you probably won't like us,” Carter said.
Little Jaye is open from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and Carter said Sunday service should start in the near future. The bakery and café is located in the Cloverdale Business Park at 309 S Cloverdale St.
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