“She’s like any other granny, and she gets you in the kitchen and gets you to bake,” Everson said. “She used that time to organically get me to open up to her.”
Everson's grandmother Donna Woodard established a love for baking and they always dreamed of opening a bakery together. But when Woodard died Everson’s sophomore year of high school, she knew she would open a bakery in her granny's honor.
“I’m going to do it for us since she couldn’t do it with me,” she said.
She opened the brick-and-mortar bakery in Celina’s downtown in 2023.
What’s special about it?
The first 40 flavors offered by the bakery are drawn on its walls. A blue Volkswagen Beetle topped with a giant cupcake displays cookies in the center of the bakery. Behind the counter and glass cakes of desserts, sits Everson’s granny’s recipe for red velvet cake, an homage to their time in the kitchen together.
Everson likes to go beyond baking goodies. She also teaches baking classes to children and adults at the bakery. She also does demonstrations at the local high schools, she said.
“I really am a huge proponent of the next generation of kids,” she said.
On the menu
Cakes are the most popular item at Granny’s Bakery coming in with 88 flavors. Bread and cinnamon rolls are also popular, Everson said. Some of the cake flavors available include watermelon, cereal flavors such as fruity pebbles and the parent trap, which is a peanut butter and oreo flavored.
Beyond cakes the bakery offers cupcakes, crème brulee, edible cookie dough, sugar cookies, flourless chocolate cake, buttercream cookie sandwich, macarons and more.
During the entire month of November, the bakery will also sell pies including pumpkin, cherry, apple, pecan, and caramel apple.
Everson’s favorite though is the made-to-order specialty cakes that can come with intricate designs for any occasion. Many of the flavors offered at Granny’s started as specialty cake order flavors.
“I love those,” she said. “Those fuel my fire.”
Staying local
Everson planned on opening a bakery but thought it would come later in life.
“I always knew I wanted a bakery,” she said. “It was going to be a gift to myself when I turned 30 but it came almost a decade early.”
When she opened the bakery at 23 years old, there were no roads to get to her business during the first eight months, Everson said. The community rallied around the business despite the lack of roadways.
“It’s almost overwhelming,” she said. “Watched day in and day out people trudging through mud to support us.”
- 401 W. Pecan St., Celina
- www.grannyssweeties.com
