Bake N' Cakes to open second location in south Lansing with homemade doughnuts

Eric Lacy | Lansing State Journal

Show Caption Hide Caption Business owner shows damage from Lansing flooding Haleigh Mason, a co-owner of Bake N' Cakes, said Feb. 26 about seven inches of water was left frozen in their freezer after last week's flooding.

LANSING -- A popular bakery that incurred thousands of dollars worth of flood damage this year has plans to add a second location on the city's south side.

Bake N' Cakes is expected to open a new store in an existing retail space at 6030 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. by mid-September, said Jeffrey Johnson, a co-owner.

“It’s about time things start coming back here,” Johnson said of south Lansing.

Bake N' Cakes' current location at 3003 E. Kalamazoo St. has been open for about 35 years and was forced to close for nine days after it was damaged in late February by flooding caused by torrential rainfall.

Johnson said the new location on the south side will have a kitchen where staff can fry doughnuts. The doughnuts are expected to be sold at both locations. He said the current location stopped making doughnuts about 30 years ago.

“This opportunity came up in my own backyard," Johnson said of the new 1,000-square-foot store. "I had to jump on this.”

Johnson, 59, grew up on the south side and graduated from Harry Hill High School. He also attended Dwight Rich Middle School and Wainwright and Wexford elementary schools.

Johnson intends to offer tastes of the new store's doughnut offerings at the Lansing Harmony Celebration. It will be held Sept. 8 from noon to 9 p.m. at Benjamin Davis Park, south of Jolly and Wise roads.

Johnson also would like to offer ice cream at the new store this spring, including ice cream cakes.

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Johnson said he would like to hire at least four people for the new store and "a couple more" for the current location on Kalamazoo Street.

For information, call (517) 337-2253. or visit facebook.com/lansingbakencakes.

Eric Lacy is a reporter for the Lansing State Journal. Contact him at 517-377-1206 or elacy@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @EricLacy.