The Bake Sale bakery is coming to West Allis

A bakery called the Bake Sale will be joining a twoblock stretch of West Becher Street in West Allis that has a butcher shop, cheese and sausage shop, bar and restaurant.

Mark Lutz, who owns the nearby West Allis Cheese and Sausage, Becher Meats and Station No. 6 as well as the building that Wild Roots restaurant is in, plans to open the Bake Sale at 6923 W. Becher by early May.

The bakery will make its own pies and brownies, but it also will sell items from bakers in Milwaukee and neighboring communities — “kind of bringing in the best of the best,” Lutz said. The volume will be low, but the variety will be wide, he said.

Items such as cheesecake, scones and croissants will come from Simma’s and Cranky Al’s in Wauwatosa, the Cake Lady in St. Francis, C. Adams in Milwaukee, Hatched in Brookfield, Canfora in Milwaukee and Colectivo and Stone Creek cafes, Lutz said. Breads will come from Breadsmith.

Allison Collard, who previously worked in Milwaukee at HoneyPie Cafe’s bakeshop in Bay View and Classy Girl Cupcakes on Cathedral Square and in Brookfield, will lead the Bake Sale. Collard attended Milwaukee Area Technical College for its pastry program, and worked at Stone Creek Coffee’s North Fifth Street location shortly after the company opened its kitchen there.

She recently baked pies for the cafe at the cheese and sausage shop — “We blew through them,” Lutz said — and was making more for this weekend: whiskey chocolate caramel swirl, banana cream, pistachio and Key lime.

She’s planning to rotate the pie offerings at the Bake Sale, making both fruit-filled and cream pies, and having vegan pie available.

Collard, who’s led classes previously, said she plans to teach pie, cake and cupcake baking and decorating classes down the road.

Lutz said he decided to add the business after neighbors repeatedly told him after the butcher shop opened, “All we need is a bakery.” He called it the Bake Sale because it will sell goods from multiple bakers, and a portion of sales will go to local charities.

The Bake Sale is expected to have four bistro tables inside and several outside, and it will sell coffee. Because cocktails have become the big seller at Station No. 6, which originally was supposed to be mainly a coffee and craft beer bar, its espresso machine will migrate to the bakery, Lutz said.

The bakery will open early for people picking up coffee on their way to work, he said, but down the line, he’d like to have dessert nights and is considering selling wines by the glass on those evenings for dessertand-drink pairings.

The one-story brick building, a former dentist’s office, now is being remodeled. Once work is completed, the Bake Sale likely would open at 6:30 a.m. weekdays, 7 on Saturdays and 8 a.m. Sundays; it would be closed Mondays.

The Bake Sale is on Instagram and Facebook.

COURTESY OF THE BAKE SALE The Bake Sale, a bakery selling its own pies and brownies and select baked goods from other businesses, will open in West Allis this spring.