Lone Prairie Bakery is located in Bismarck, North Dakota and started in 2025, operating mostly for fall and winter when we like our carbs. (I jest, but only kind of.) Several years as a pastry chef, a mom who taught us to bake and cook when we were young, and a love of cookies and bakeries made it a logical choice.

There are few more frustrating things than loving to bake and having no one to bake for. So I'd love to bake for you.

The bakery operates on pre-orders. When pre-orders open, you can select from what is available that month. Once the pre-orders close, I spend the next day baking to order, and the following day (usually a Saturday) customers come by and pick up their freshly baked goods. Massive win for everyone.

The Lone Prairie Bakery is a home bakery operating under North Dakota cottage food laws. I must inform customers of the following: "This product is made in a home kitchen that is not inspected by the state or local health department." Food items are not produced in an allergen-free kitchen and therefore, anyone who is sensitive or allergic to food ingredients should not purchase or consume these items.

Visit Lone Prairie Bakery online, or sign up for an email reminder when pre-orders are open. Visit the frequently asked questions page for more information.

I'm probably on website version 12 or 13 at this point, understandable, I think, over 30 years.

Sometimes I get bored and change it up. Sometimes it's an issue with the web host. Sometimes it's a platform problem.

But sometimes it's a me problem.

In 2024, I'd moved my long-time stable website from a platform that was all but shutting down. The hosting landscape had changed; building from scratch was no longer of interest and I wanted a website builder for a simpler life, but the prices were much higher than in the past. 

I selected one that was so full-featured it still takes my breath away, and I took advantage of their very discounted introductory deal and went crazy with setting up such a complicated site that I soon lost track. It was sort of like standing on the edge of a forest with a spy glass, lost in details made no better close up.

At the time, I thought I would need it; I was making a big push to change product lines, client service options, and start shelling out money for advertising and building a brand online. I blocked out nearly all of 2024 to make the products, build the massive site, and get ready for the event that would be the pinnacle of all my online and in-person cold-selling efforts.

It failed.

And the website was now a monster, requiring so much time for so little return.

Somewhere I have an equation in which I need to have more time making and creating rather than building foundations. Freelancers always have to block out time for invoicing and bookwork, but I was blocking out so much more to deal with the big website. Even when I sort of abandoned it because the dashboard was so complex and it felt heavy just logging in and trying to remember how all the little components worked, that website and all it represented ate away at my mind.

If you get a 404 error page because a piece of content you are looking for is gone, I'm sorry. But I needed something much less. It's the difference between hanging my clothes on a clothesline and hanging them on the structure of the Brooklyn Bridge.

I hope you understand; the new site is a reflection of the overall simplification of what I will now sell, what I am available to do for clients, and protecting my own creative time a bit more as I get older.

I just want to simplify things.