A Nottinghamshire mum and daughter have opened up a ‘bakery and cakery’ and say they ‘sell happiness’ with fresh products
Monika Winnicka, 51 and Daughter Ola Nosek, 32, opened Sweet Point, on Outram Street in Sutton-in-Ashfield. At the end of last year, the two worked every day for a month to put their ‘tiny but cute’ confectionary store together.
The shop sells a whole range of locally baked breads, homemade cakes and sweets. They have also brought a taste of traditional Polish foods that customers can try..
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”At the beginning we had just a few customers a day, now, every week is getting better,” Monika said.
“We are open seven days a week. Everyday we have deliveries, all of these are coming in every day. We have bread from local bakeries, one bakery is a small family bakery. We like to support small local businesses that’s why we offer bread from the family bakeries.
“It’s growing. Something new is coming every week and we try to improve the range of what we offer. We are very small but we are trying to have offers big enough. Sometimes we laugh that we sell happiness.
“We sell sweets and bread, we’re like a bakery and a cakery. What we offer is fresh cakes, we have many cakes, cheese cakes, apple pies, creamy cakes and walnut cakes. We also have homemade cheese cakes. We have polish sweets, we chose the best that Poland offers. Some of our sweets are very traditional. Some of the cheesecakes, poppy seeds, we have very traditional products.”
Monika highlighted how important it was for her to have high quality products that are very traditional to Poland, as she’s trying to offer products that maybe people from the UK haven’t tried yet.
She added: “What the main purpose is, except business, we would like to promote everything we have is high quality. Some Polish shops don’t know our culture and traditions. Particularly our traditions of cake at Easter and Christmas and we have some days like Fat Thursday - a day where people buy and eat as many donuts as they can.
“One of the Polish chocolates we have is a bit unusual like whiskey and coffee, brandy and coffee and we have ginger bread from a Polish traditional company that has been trading for 250 years.
“We have to have something for everyone, we know people have allergies and different dietary. There’s something for everyone, some flavours may be unusual for UK citizens.”
Currently the mum and daughter duo are planning on serving hot drinks at the store, it’s not confirmed when they will begin this, but this is the next step for the shop.
Monika added: “We are a very tiny shop, when people shop here they say it’s tiny but cute and they like to be here. This is our first place to open, and hopefully not the last. We would like to increase, and open another shop in the future.”
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