Swiss Maid Bakery

Used Swiss Maid’s Woodstock bakery for a custom birthday cake. The cake was not only beautifully decorated (beyond anything I expected) but it was delicious. I had called 4 area bakeries and selected Swiss Miss because their price was the most reasonable. Needless to say, I found «my» bakery. Great customer service also.

We purchase their Gingerbread houses for a number of clients each year.

Best place ever! Me and my son have to go here every Saturday morning for doughnuts! They have everything that you could want in a bakery and their pies around the holidays are just like my grandmas!

We tried Swiss Maid on a Saturday morning while walking around the farmer’s market right outside their door. My daughter was VERY excited when she saw the Hello Kitty cookies in he display and I’m assuming she liked it cause it was gone within minutes of the purchase, haha. The hubs had a bavarian cream filled donut and I had the muffin. They were all tasty. I thought the prices were a tad high but not too bad. We will definitely be back to try some again.

There is nothing not to love about this bakery. The prices are extremely reasonable and the pastries are to die for. Swiss maid also did an amazing job with my wedding. I had a 6 inch round and 150 cupcakes. I got complimented all night on how good everything was. I think I changed my mind 2 or 3 times on what I wanted, Ashley was so nice and never treated me like I was annoying. Everything was amazing!

There is little here that I don’t love, but I most strongly recommend the danishes and coffee cakes. No one makes a cheese coffee cake as well as Swiss Maid Bakery, the pastry is just the right consistency and the filling is not too sweet, not too heavy. Same for the almond horns, and kolachkes.

My mom was in town from Germany so we stopped by in hopes of finding good bread. We selected the six grain loaf. This bread by taste was at least three days old. It was dry and stale. If you’ve never been to Germany or Switzerland please don’t think this is what the bread tastes like. This was a complete waste of $ 3.20 and an insult to the Germanic culture.

We had gone to the Swiss Maid Bakery in Harvard, Illinois and had loved their tasty offerings, so decided to try the Woodstock location, which is closer to our home. I checked their website (by putting in: «Swiss Maid Bakery, Woodstock, Illinois») and it said they closed at 6:00 pm that Thursday, September 12^th. I then called the bakery (from the number on the website I had just pulled up) and asked if they had the particular cookies I had been so enamoured of. They said they did, and I told them we would be up shortly. We ran into some slow traffic, but we were at their door at exactly 5:30. As we went to open the door, the proprietor was reaching for the door to lock it. She said, «Hey guys, we’re closed», as if she was very irritated with us. I said, «Your website said you close at six», to which she replied, «That’s Harvard», and then locked the door. HOW VERY RUDE! First, as stated above, it was NOT Harvard’s hours that I saw. Second, is this really the way you treat a customer? She didn’t even give us the chance to say we had called earlier and had come for a particular cookie. We had driven over 15 miles (in rush hour traffic, none-​the-​less), to have the door locked in our face. Needless to say, though we enjoyed their products from the Harvard store, we will never, and I do mean NEVER, shop at this location again. They wasted our time, they wasted our gas, and they apparently don’t appreciate their customers. For an extra 5 minutes or less, they could have had a substantial sale; what a shame…

This is a fairly good local old-​school small-​town Scandinavian or Germanic-​style American bakery which really fits the mould I expect from that — good but not great with some things that are definitely worth getting and others that are mediocre or simply not good. It reminds me a lot in terms of the product range and character, as well as in the place itself, of the old Polly Anna Bakery we used to have in downtown Petaluma.
Doughnuts were decent but too bready and bland and boring. Molasses cookies were enjoyable enough but a bit characterless in taste and texture. That pretty much sums it up for the other things we got, too, although one daughter loved the lemon bar she had. Danishes seemed pretty good.

love their eclairs and my hubby and daughter say their smiley face cookies have no equal.

Best donuts ever!!! Their chocolate is so good here. Every time I am back home-​my first breakfast stop is here. They also have great hotdogs for lunch. I moved to Arizona and for 6 years I have been looking for a comparable donut. Still looking.

Very good butter cookies ! Also took home a chocolate whipped cream cake. We’ll see how good that is, it’s for Christmas Eve. It looks great !
The young ladies that work in the bakery are very helpful and nice.

This place is pretty sweet, there has to be something for everyone… I love their donuts and cupcakes…
I love the Mexican bakery next door, lol, get the best of both worlds

I don’t visit SMB often, because I would eat everything if I could. Forget DD, Starbucks or wherever else you get your pasties; Swiss Maid does it better.
My favorite is their white chocolate muffins *drools* My mom had them make a black forest cake (my favorite kind) for our wedding reception and it was delicious.

Ummmm … cheese danish.
I order these everywhere. Or buy them at grocery stores. And they’re always good. It’s a cheese danish.
But then I got my very first one at Swiss Maid — where I’ve always bought my smiley face cookies — and it was the best cheese danish I’ve ever had.
Get one. Get two. They are… incredible. I will ALWAYS go back now to get one. Mmmmm mmmm mmmm.

What a great place to have on the Square!
Desperate for a sweet treat after lunch this past Saturday, my friend and I made our way to Swiss Maid Bakery. I was overwhelmed especially by the assortment of decorated sugar cookies, and was delighted by the additional selection of cupcakes, donuts and other pastries.
My friend ate what the woman behind the counter called a «cherry square» and I had to steal a bite! I’m glad I did because it was full of sweet and tart cherry goodness. Well worth the couple of bucks. I picked up three cookies for myself, and I have to say their cookies are buttery delicious. The tab for a cherry square and three sizable decorated cookies was under $ 4.
Not much beats grabbing a sweet treat for your stroll around the Woodstock Square.

While out there visiting a friend, she recommended going to this place as it was her childhood favorite.
So, I decided to give it a try. I ordered two donuts (cake donut with chocolate icing, and a fluffy (light) chocolate cake dount with chocolate icing). Tasty!!! My partner ordered two sugar cookies (one in the shape of a rabbit (pink frosting) on it and the other in the shape of a shamrock (green frosting). Then, as we were walking out, we ordered a purple bunny rabbit (yellow cake, in the shape of a ball covered in coconut and colored purple). Since I was not a coconut fan, didn’t touch it at all. My partner said it was ok.