Bird-In-Hand Bake Shop

I loved EVERYTHING about this place! Quaint location, unique gifts, live animals, delicious baked goods, and outstanding customer service. Hands-​down the best sticky buns and dinner rolls that I have ever tasted! My son loved the whoopie pies and my husband ate half of a custard pie all on his own.
Thank goodness we live 8 hrs away or I would have to live in stretchy pants to accommodate for my inevitably expanding waistline!

Bird-​in-​Hand Bake Shop is a bakery/​craft store that offers homemade breads, cookies, cinnamon rolls, as well as Amish country crafts (dolls, pillow cases, pictures, candles, etc.). The place is a little tight in maneuvering around with the plethora of stuff that they have, but still manageable. I picked up one of their homemade Cherry Pies, as well as a scoop of their homemade Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream. That ice cream — sooooo GOOD! It had a wonderful blueberry preserve mixed in, and there were luscious creamy chunks of plain cheesecake that was of a generous amount. Very enjoyable! You can also check more of their Amish crafts on their wrap-​around porch. Plenty of parking!
+pies and other desserts
+Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream (homemade)!
+parking available

I heart this place for it’s mini loafs-​smells devine! Generic gifts were off putting. I want more local handmade crafts.

I have been going there for years, but it seems lately the prices have gone up a lot, but the quality has gone down. The workers are usually friendly. The ice cream they sell is good. They also sell souvenirs. Some are decent priced, some are really expensive.
Outside is a petting zoo where kids can feed some goats and there is a little play area.
Now onto the baked goods. I bought several things as usual on my last visit. The pies were the most disappointing. After just a couple of days the pies went bad. To me this is not acceptable. While I am hoping they use less preservatives than mass produced baked goods a pie should still last more that 2 days. I also was disappointed in the cookies i bought this time. Bought several varieties and was not really happy with their quality.
I do not know what happened to this place. I really used to enjoy it, but now it is just not the same.

The cookies we had were not-​bad-​not-​great (peanut butter was the lone standout), but the ice cream is phenomenal. It is also just a nice, charming place to visit. It’s off the beaten track, so you wend your way through picturesque farms just to get there and, once there, there is a small pen of farm animals and really lovely group swings to relax.

Love this place —
My kids just love there whoopie pies and I seem to leave here with all kind of colored sprinkles. lol
I always buy hot dog and hamburger buns, whoopie pies and Apple Crumb to bring home = yumminess
Everything is EXCELLENT and I highly recommend coming here… you won’t be disappointed

A little out of the way but well worth it. All the pies, pastries and baked goods imaginable. The smells will get you, I promise. This is the place to get the baked goods that you need.

Please don’t make the mistake of confusing the Bake Shop with the Bakery of the same name. This is by far the best, freshest, real deal Amish bakery in the entire area. This is a great authentic family-​owned business and not the chain store that the other place is. Great little present playground for the kids, swinging picnic tables, and a cute little petting zoo with chickens and goats for the kids. Don’t let the tourist attraction look of the place dissuade you. The baked goods are the best I’ve ever had.

Amish country tourist stuff All the standard pies cookies and dumplings

Very good selection of baked goods. All home made and fresh. I love the Shoo fly pie and oatmeal cookies.

The usual Amish country tourist stuff like keychains and postcards and cookbooks are for sale in half the store. The baked goods in the other half of the store really are top notch. My mom asked what I wanted and I instantly chose an apple dumping because I had not had one for years. We ate them for dessert later at home and the apple dumplings were wonderful. There’s a large playground outside for children. There’s also a large petting zoo area. The animals are stand-​offish until they hear the cranks on the animal feed turn. Then I had lots of goat and chicken friends.

Not a trip to Lancaster without coming to see the awesome bakers at Bird in Hand. This trip was no different.
Waling in, you’re met with massive tables full of freshly baked pies. Shoofly, apple, peach, the works!
We needed to bring a bunch of apple crumb pies back to NYC. Some for our family, some for friends, some for neighbors, you know how it goes ;) Unfortunately, we got there and they were all out of apple crumb pies — drats, what are we to do? We asked one of the bakers if they planned to make more. She said they had no intention of making more but if we needed them she would take our order and happily bake some for us. Wow, incredible!
A little over an hour later we were in pie heaven. Also took home some banana breads and a mini pecan pie (my favorite!)
While we waited for our pies we sat outside on the porch since the weather was so nice and watched the Amish farm workers across the road. Amazing how much work they do without power. Can you imagine?
Bottom line — with their quality of pies and service, I’ve never been to a better bakery in my life.

Every year I take at least two buses to Lancaster area. Bird in Hand Bake Shop is a must stop. The place is spotless, the food is outstanding and the prices are very fair. I also call them and have them send me goodies. The whoopie pies are the best. I buy two dozen at a time and put them in the freezer. Call ahead and talk to Edna and she will save anything for you.
Dave B. Syracuse, NY

Every baked good in here looks absolutely delicious! We stopped here on our Amish tour. We did not want to get so full and buy so much so we settled with a bag of assorted cookies. The assortment included: oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, ginger, and chocolate. None of which included sugar. You can’t even tell. Now I wish we got more to take home. We also tried the pretzel sold at the truck right in front of the bake shop. We just got a regular with salt. Boy, was it delicious. It was warm and soft. Get two, your not gonna want to share any! The bake shop not only sold baked goods but home goods, amish souvenirs, and such. If you stop here, make sure to buy an assortment of goodies.

Made it here right before closing time and I’m glad the Amish aren’t rude like peeps from NJ — they let us in all smiles and patience. We browsed and browsed this great little Bake Shop full of homemade breads, whoopie pies, assorted pies and other baked goods.
I made off with the following:
Rye bread — soft, thick sliced and a bit on the sweet side — no complaints. already polished off a couple slices today for breakfast accompanied by some farmers cheese from Lapp Valley Farms and some tomatoes picked up from a roadside Amish farm. *burp*
Snitz turnover — just had that as my 3 o’clock snack and regretting there was only one left to buy! what’s a snitz? only the best pie i ever had!* filled with dried apples and spices.
Chocolate Shoofly pie — already bought the regular one and loved it. only fitting to try a chocolate version of one of the best pies i’ve ever had*!
*be prepared to eat a lot of pie when you get to Amish country and be prepared to declare each one as the best pie you’ve ever had!

What a great place, such a cute location and I LOVED the outside seating! Nice playground for kids and great Amish goods served by super nice girls.
I nabbed a pecan cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven as well as a lemon meringue pie, both of which were excellent!
Homemade goodness, tasty using fresh quality ingedients and the prices are fair as well!
Great stop on our tour trough Amish county, seems it is also a tourist stop for others as they were unloading tourist busses to come here and shop as well.

Best of everything! Try the sampler plate.

An oasis in the heart of Pa. Dutch farmland. My favorite thing here is the snitz pie; a local specialty made from dried apples and spices… amazing. Their products are available in Philly but they will only special order snitz pies
This place is a bit of a tourist trap (with the petting zoo, tour buses rolling in) but is definitely worth checking out. A great place to chill; picnic benches, clean bathrooms. Nothing but farms surrounding, I sometimes sit out side and have lunch watching the Amish working hard across the road. Don’t forget to try snitz pie! Coconut custard great as well!

Our family dropped by here and was told that this was a «must stop by» place. This was out of the way for us and we expected something spectacular.
First, the positives:
1. the farm animals (chickens, goats, etc…) were great for the kids to keep occupy.
2. the little playground area
3. cookies, breads
4. friendly, but high-​tech Amish folks (takes away from the Amish experience)
The negatives:
1. ice-​cream from Turkey Hill. We absolutely hate that commercialized Turkey Hill garbage called ice cream!!! Why would they do this and not make their own ice cream???
2. way too sweet brownies
3. a tourist trap
Overall, I like the Amish culture and respect their way of life. I admire their work ethics and wished that most of America would emulate them. Women and children actually work too! This is in sharp contrast to the typical American family, where the women are too busy in nail salons and children are glued to facebooks. Getting back to the review, I was a bit disappointed with this place because of the touristy feel of the place and the lack of authenticity of their ice cream.

Unfortunately they don’t allow photography inside so I couldn’t share any pictures of the foods and layout. On one end of the store there were touristy-​type gifts, and the other end were local sauces, mixes, and goodies, and the baked goods on the back wall, where the breads, pies, and other sweets were found.
My friend and I entered right at closing time, so there weren’t many options, but things were discounted (nice tip). I bought a loaf of cheese bread, a couple of moon pies, and sampled a shoofly pie (although I didn’t buy it). My friend bought a very nice strawberry angel food cake.
Did find it slightly odd to see little clear boxes of bite-​sized snickers on sale, and was also told by the girl at the register that not everything was made there.
The outside environs are very cute — lots of little wheel barrel benches, swinging benches w/​tables, and you can even feed the goats in the little corral.