Baking for the night owls

A new bakery at Ettalong is proving popular with night owls, supplying taxi drivers and late night revellers with something to warm them up in the early hours of the morning.

The bakery, open 7 days a week from 2am, makes speciality cakes to order and speciality breads on weekends.

It also sells products wholesale to schools and Gosford Hospital with unsold produce going for free to Mary Macs Place, Salvation Army and Outreach Gosford.

Owner of Beachside Bakehouse, Heidi Smythe, who now lives at Booker Bay, said she looked all over the Central Coast for a new location for her bakery.

She said she chose Ettalong because it was an up and coming area with only one other bakery and it was an area she knew as her brother lived there.

"We purchase top quality ingredients locally and everything is baked on premises."

She previously owned the Erina Mall Bakery, which was established for 20 years but moved due to the expansion of Erina Fair.

"The landlord decided to open another bakery virtually right next door which was to me rather unethical and immoral," Ms Smythe said.

"But we are powering ahead and providing our local customers the best quality pies, and bread that has no preservatives, and traditional cakes that are so tempting and delicious.

"We are renowned for our gluten free bread which is purchased by customers as far up as Port Macquarie and all over the Central Coast District, including Gosford Hospital, so it must be good.

"This new venture has provided the opportunity for seven new employees to the Peninsula and we are proud of the quality that we provide all our customers."

The bakery is located in Ocean View Rd, Ettalong.

Alison Branley, May 27