After a slow build from its early January opening, Sweet Abilities Bakery in Fairfax threw a grand opening celebration the weekend of March 21. The new bakery at 997 Main Street replaced Sunflour Bakery, which closed in December. Lynn Orton, 50, runs it with her family, including her 27-year-old son, Daeton, who has autism.
The team — which also includes Lynn’s husband, Stephen, their daughter, Faith, and younger son Justis — bakes fresh doughnuts, muffins, scones, bagels, buttermilk biscuits and croissants every day the bakery is open. Sweet Abilities offers breakfast sandwiches all day, quiches, cookies, pies, cakes and some bread. Sandwiches with fillings, such as house chicken salad, can be ordered on bagels, croissants or house-baked Vermont maple oat or honey-wheat bread.
The menu also includes crullers and sour cream old-fashioned and filled Boston cream doughnuts. Scones, such as white chocolate-raspberry and bacon-cheddar, and filled croissants in flavors such as Buffalo chicken and sausage, egg and cheese, sell well, Lynn said.
Lynn said she and Daeton had long planned to open a business together, and her many years of food service experience prepared her to run a bakery. She treasures the opportunity to work with her son, she said, adding that “My goal is to have a program that employs people with special abilities.”
The takeout-only bakery is currently open Wednesday through Saturday, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Sunday and Tuesday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. A website is under construction. Learn more on Facebook.
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