12th Street Bakery

I stopped by here with some other Unilocalers for an event and had a wonderful time. My husband and I decided to go all out and we ended up ordering quite a bit from 12^th St. Bakery. We got a Dude Bar, brown sugar banana bread, olive oil blueberry muffin, bacon chive & cheese scone and a mini apple pie.
My favorite thing was the Dude bar! It was chocolaty, nutty and powdered sugar! Yes please! I also liked the banana bread quite a bit. The apple pie was ok, but there was something off about the blueberry muffin. It was a bit oddly salty. My husband ate the entire scone and I didn’t even get to try it, but he said it was tasty. Overall though most everything I had was good and I would stop back by here if I was in the neighborhood and even give the blueberry muffin another shot.

Fantastic (and huge) fresh cinnamon buns. Delicious ham-​and-​cheese-​stuffed-​dinner-​roll-​looking-​things. Super nice people. Definitely recommended.

My boyfriend and I walked to the 12^th Street Bakery to try some of their delicious treats. We are eventually moving in down the street and have driven by this place several times and have always been meaning to try it out. We got there right when they were opening at 9 am on a Saturday. After a long gaze at the delicious goods, I decided on the dude bar. It was SO good. Gooey and chocolaty and rich. Definitely enough for two people! I can’t wait to go back and try some of the other sweets out.

Oh my GOODNESS! Absolutely delicious! I met up with some people So glad to meet new and old friends and stuff my face and run around my old stomping grounds! I have already set up a custom future order for 12^th Street Bakery.
Anyhow, the breakfast tacos were great, the Lady of the house says she really likes the cinnamon rolls so do I, and my emergency scone helped me make it across the river during ACL. The trailer also has some pretty good breakfast tacos. I definitely recommend going here and it exists for a good cause.

Ugh I feel terrible right now. I’ve got a two pound ball of cinnamon roll digesting in my gut. I started off normally enough, figuring I’d eat only half. Then I tasted it.
Here I am an hour later fairly immobilized, after demolishing an entire cinnamon roll the size of a softball.
Everything I’ve had here was outstanding. The Olive Oil blueberry muffin, the Dude bars, etc. But the cinnamon roll is the star of the show, and rightfully so.
Just don’t be a pig like me, share yours, and you’ll be fine.

We had a houseful of ACL festival-​goers staying with us and wanted to make them a super festival-​ready breakfast to kick off their day. It just so happened that we learned of 12^th st bakery thanks to a UYE planned by our own lovely Alicia j. We live in NW Austin, so 12^th and chicon is a bit of a hike — but hey it’s a lovely Saturday morning, it’s fresh and fabulous ACL weekend 2, we love our sweet and nutty house guests, and life is beautiful — so off we went with promises to bring back the riches.
The weather on this spectacular Saturday morning wasn’t the only lovely aspect of our day — our baker and server were charming and welcoming and, well, lovely too.
Their goods are fresh and fabulous — we had to order a «car muffin» in addition to everything we’d be bringing home for our house guests because one look at those moist muffins oozing with fresh blueberries and I knew they wouldn’t make it home otherwise.
The dude bar is quite aptly named. One bite of this sweet, nutty confection and we all looked at each other like «whoa…duuude». Or maybe it’s so named because you shouldn’t try to eat one of these by your lonesome — you are hereby advised to most definitely split it with your favorite dude. This way you’ll be guaranteed the sugar high but will (just barely) avoid the pitfall of the sugar coma. I can’t identify every ingredient in these delicious bars but dude, whatever you’re imagining is likely in there.
The cinnamon roll is, how do I say it — ridiculous. It’s beautiful — a work of art — both visually and gastronomically. Nota bene: it is as big as your head and worth every sit up you’re going to have to do to work it off. But alas that’s a problem for tomorrow — mainly because I’m probably not getting up off the couch for the rest of today.
Go get your sweet breakfast buzz on at 12^th Street Bakery. Everything about this place will keep you (and your sweet, nutty dude) coming back, ACL or not.

This review is incredibly overdue as I’ve been stuffing my face with 12^th Street Bakery goods for well over a month now. So… Where to start?
Let me say this first. I do not have the biggest sweet tooth in the world (although I can do some serious damage to chips and queso), but I could eat Sam’s baked goodies every day. It is a rare baker that doesn’t overload everything on the menu with as much sugar as possible, but everything I’ve tried here has been really well balanced and not overpoweringly sweet. So, plus one for that.
Among the things I’ve loved:
Cinnamon rolls (big as your face, real BUTTER, and cream cheese icing, oh my!)
Olive oil blueberry muffins (super moist and with fresh blueberries)
Lemon crinkle cookies (so lemony! imagine a lemon square in cookie form)
Brown butter Rice Krispie treats (so tasty you wouldn’t know it’s gluten free)
Donuts (not your standard fare glazed carbs… I seriously have no words for how good her donuts are)
And I’ll stop there because if I kept going about everything I loved this would be a ridiculously long review. Thankfully the trailer isn’t on my way to work or I would be in so much trouble.

I had a clever line here about Austin’s best baked goods being sold in the worst part of town, but sometimes I just like to hear myself type. I’m sure this neighborhood is on the list to be gentrified for homogeneous hipster use, but in the meantime, you can come see what’s left of the East Austin legacy. And you can enjoy a Dude Bar.
Ms Herod spends half her time making stuff in a commercial kitchen, and the other half in this trailer selling it (Ms Mann used to do that with Frozen Rickshaw). I’m pretty much going to be a fan of any chef with that kind of perseverance, but if they back it up with great product, I’m going to give them a five-​star review as well. Ms Herod is a superb baker.
And if you ask me why she’s a superb baker, I really couldn’t tell you — because I don’t bake, and baked goods are the zombies in my food world. I’m wary of their carbs & can only handle them in small doses. But so far everything I’ve had here has been great, and if Ms Herod was wholesaling her stuff to Wheatsville or Whole Foods, people would be flocking all over it. Now I’m curious about her Saturday Cinnamon Rolls. And I’ll definitely have to try one, before her trailer becomes the latest AMLI complex.

Sam is obviously a great baker, a cool person to talk with (we once spent a few minutes discussing the Tao of the «crinkle cookie»), and has all the passion you so often see from folks following the dream into the next part of their career.
Saturday is «Cinnamon Roll Day», and is definitely worth it. If you’re like me, and usually get your stuff to go, you’ll get the icing in a separate container for later application. Though my Unilocal photo of one was apparently «Flagged as Inappropriate», obviously from some deviant type… Should I waste my time/​money/​calories on a Rice Krispy treat? Sure! The brown butter (and touch of good vanilla?) really elevates it beyond mom’s version. The «whipping cream pound cake» is great as well.
For you gluten-​free fans, she has cookies (well, sometimes they sell out) for you. Wife rates the GF chocolate chip cookies as «the best GF cookies I’ve ever had». They’re not ooey gooey soft-​batch kind. But yeah, that’s not really possible, as it’s the gluten in «normal» flour that allows a cookie to be chewy. If gluten-​ny cookies *are* ok for you, then I’d recommend the festively sprinkly «birthday cake» cookies.
I’m hopeful they’ll get more (convenient) street parking, to avoid having to dash across Chicon from the couple of «15 minute» spots across the way. There is space for two cars on a patch of grass behind the trailer, but I wouldn’t recommend that for cars with low clearance. That’s really my only complaint.
Despite the name, you won’t see it from 12^th Street. So, just head north on Chicon from 12^th and you’ll see it on your left.
4.7 stars

Forget Russell’s bakery or ANY other place if you want the best cinnamon roll in Austin. THIS is the place — soft, loaded with cinnamon, sweet and totally delish! The Dude bar rocks too, and Sam, the owner and her boyfriend are awesome. You won’t be sorry — you’ll be SO happy, and you can support a great new Austin business in the process. So glad I stumbled on this sweet bakery truck!

This place has great sweets, treats, and drinks. They also have a fantastic business model to help develop young people in East Austin. Do yourself a favor and go get a Dude Bar right now!

Rode my bike this morning to the trailer after reading the article in the chronicle. I saw the picture of the cinnamon rolls here in Unilocal and I am on a quest for the best cinnamon roll (with frosting, as we all know the best dry cinnamon roll is at Upper Crust) in Austin. Well Saturday morning is cinnamon roll day so I got a fresh donut. Light and the perfectly sweet. Sam is great and you can tell she loves what she does. I will be back on Saturday at 9am for my cinnamon roll.

I just had the best cinnamon role of my life!!! It had the right blend of cinnamon/​butter/​sugar/​frosting. I highly recommend!
You really can’t go wrong with anything at 12^th street bakery! I was amazed at how delicious the scones, cookies, muffins and cakes were also! And don’t get me started on the dude bar!!!
The only draw back that I can see is that this trailer is a 4 min drive/​15 minute walk from my house which means I will have to work out more as a result of all the baked goods I’m going to eat.

I’ve been eating Sam’s baked goods for the past year and a half, much to my waistline’s dismay, but I waited until I had a chance to visit the new trailer and try a few things from it before writing my review.
Her cookies will always be the best cookies around. Especially the chocolate chip, which is a little saltier than your standard boring coffee shop fare. They’re all somehow soft but not crumbly and chewy but with some structure.
Cinnamon roll is great, but I recommend waiting a few minutes after it’s been served to give the icing a chance to firm up a little bit. If you can wait. I certainty couldn’t.
The breakfast tacos were very substantial and a single taco would be enough for someone who is average level hungry and not famished.
Where she really shines, though, is her cakes/​cupcakes. She provided a delicious coconut cake for my birthday last month that had everyone raving for weeks afterward. The icing stays this side of sickly sweet and her buttercream just can’t be beat. If she’s selling slices, GET ONE. If not, have her cater your next cake-​based event.

Get a ”Dude, bar !”. You’re welcome.
This little bakery will most probably become one of the trendiest dessert food trucks in the East, and fast. On top of tasty desserts, they have a noble mission: helping people deemed unhireable to acquire various skillsets by employing them. They also plan on increasing their use of organic and fair trade products as soon as demand rises ! You go, 12^th street bakery !
It is probably packed with a million delicious calories… but it’s ethical and for a good cause !
(Yeah, that evens it out, right ?)

12^th Street Bakery is a new business with amazing baked goods. Everything I’ve tried is delicious-​I highly recommend the «Dude, bars!», which have graham crackers, pecans, coconut, and chocolate chips. Everything is very reasonably priced.
Within the next few months, the owner, Sam, is planning on hiring people who are usually considered unhireable, so it’s a great business to patronize, as well.

Visiting my sister in Austin and she picked up some tasty baked things for breakfast. Cinnamon rolls were super rich and lovely, bacon scones were a little salty but great concept (and really, balanced out the cinnamon rolls and our copious coffee drinking). Very yummy.

Love 12^th Street Bakery. Awesomely delicious baked goods and friendly service. Sam is an amazing baker and very professional. Her trailer is great and she did a wonderful job baking cookies for an event we hosted recently.

New bakery in Austin. 12^th street offers some of the most amazing baked hoods with a great cause. Excited to see this bakery flourish in an up and coming neighborhood