A Polish family bakery on Olde 8 Road. The dough, the fillings, the frosting: all of it made from scratch in the same shop, by the same family, since 1961.
Our loving father & dearest husband has been called home to the Lord. We love you Dad!
David Stanley Srodek was one tough “cookie”. He was most known in the community as the baker of his family’s business, Stan’s Northfield Bakery. He worked side-by-side with his parents, Stanley and Helen, throughout his youth and high school days. When duty called, he left the Bakery after high school to serve his country in the United States Army. He was a proud Vietnam Veteran and made sure that he taught his daughters about loyalty, commitment, service and love of country.
After his honorable discharge, David returned to the family business where he met his beloved wife Kathie, after she applied for a clerk position.
Together, Kathie and David enjoyed traveling to tropical locations, riding his Harley, running the bakery and raising their family. Together, they had two lovely daughters, Leslie and Lindsay. David’s tough guy persona was completely melted away when his lovely ladies were around. He was the quintessential girl dad, letting his daughters put bows in his beard… Or helping as a Girl Scout leader on field trips. He was completely devoted to his wife and daughters and in turn they were completely devoted to him.
His wife Kathie truly fulfilled her sacred marriage vow of in sickness and in health throughout their 48 years of marriage. She stood by his side as his primary caregiver for the last 12 years of his life as he suffered from complications due to Agent Orange exposure during his service in Vietnam.
Visitation
Sunday, November 8, 2 to 6 p.m.
Ferfolia Funeral Home
Funeral mass
Monday, November 9 at 10 a.m.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Macedonia
Open through Saturday, November 7, 5 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed Tuesday, November 10.
Reopening in David’s honor on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11 — his favorite day of the year.
Thank you Dad for sharing your baking talents with the entire community over the years. Your hard work brought smiles, comfort and full bellies to so many.
Autumn spice cakes, fruit and cheese kuchen, and cutout cookies in leaves, scarecrows and pumpkins.
Thanksgiving fills up early. Decorated cakes want one to two weeks, decorated cookies seven days.
What came out of the oven this week. It changes, so call ahead if you are making a trip for something in particular.
Traditional Polish filled donuts, fried here and in the case every day, all year.
Cream-cheese dough folded around fruit, cheese or nut filling.
A tender flaky horn filled with old-fashioned marshmallow meringue.
Prices are subject to change without notice.
These are the ones we plan the year around. Menus and prices go up here as they are ready. Until then, call and we will walk you through it.
Decorated cakes need one to two weeks. Decorated cookies need seven days.
Old-country Polish baking, made the long way. Come early. When the trays are empty, that's it until tomorrow.
Traditional Polish filled donuts, fried here and in the case every day, all year, not just Fat Tuesday. Through Lent they run more than nineteen flavors.
Filling and dough, both made here. Nothing off a truck.
Cut one open. The filling-to-dough ratio is the whole argument.
A tender flaky horn filled with old-fashioned marshmallow meringue. Big enough to share.
Cream-cheese dough folded around fruit, cheese or nut filling.
Made by hand, boiled and frozen. Six to a pack.
Rye Bread, Vienna Bread, Buttercrust, Salt & Caraway Hoskie and Poppyseed Horns. Braided by hand, by order or in the case the week before a holiday.
Cutters we have already made
Thirteen of them. There are hundreds, and the shape you want probably is not on this list yet.
From
$3.95
Edible photo, round
$4.39 square or rectangular
From
$5
Royal icing
Before you order
Sheet cakes, tiered cakes and carved character cakes, built and decorated one at a time, by the same family that bakes the bread.
Send Leslie these eight things by email or message, or have them ready when you call.
You're welcome to bring toys, toppers or Etsy finds for the decorator to put on the cake.
Email your answers
Northfield, Ohio
Stanley and Helen Srodek opened the doors in July 1961. It has been the same family, in the same building on Olde 8 Road, ever since.
Stanley and Helen Srodek opened the doors with their son David in the summer of 1961. Six decades on, Leslie runs the bakery with her mother Kathie and her sister Lindsay.
Same building. Same 5 a.m. start, because scratch dough doesn't proof any faster than it did in 1961.
Food Network, cleveland.com and a published decorating book have all put this bakery's name in print.
Food Network · Christmas Cookie Challenge
She decorates the cookies in the case on a Tuesday morning, and she took that same hand to a national competition and won it: Season 3, Episode 8, “Bright Lights, Big Cookies.”
See what Leslie decoratescleveland.com · 2014
cleveland.com ran a Northeast Ohio's Best doughnut bracket in 2014. A retired Cleveland police captain picked the Big Dupa out of the whole field and made it the official Cop's Favorite.
Dupa is Polish for backside. The doughnut is named for its size.
In print
Work from the Stan's decorating bench is featured in the book.
We're closed Sunday and Monday, so count those out when you're counting days. Carved, tiered cakes want one to two weeks; decorated cookies for a Saturday means calling the Friday before.
Prices depend on size and design, so we quote them on the phone. Call and we'll walk you through it.
Holiday and vacation hours differ, so call ahead.
