Bailey & Ollie's Crafted Crumbs
Baked from home, made for every table
A cottage bakery born in a kitchen they loved. Gourmet cookies, sourdough, and an interactive Cake Bar, now travelling markets across Nova Scotia.
Bailey & Ollie's Crafted Crumbs
Baked from home, made for every table
A cottage bakery born in a kitchen they loved. Gourmet cookies, sourdough, and an interactive Cake Bar, now travelling markets across Nova Scotia.
Bailey & Ollie's Crafted Crumbs
Baked from home, made for every table
A cottage bakery born in a kitchen they loved. Gourmet cookies, sourdough, and an interactive Cake Bar, now travelling markets across Nova Scotia.
Our Rooted Tale
A hobby that refused to stay small
Courtney and Brandon Schriver have known each other since they were five years old. They started dating at twelve. By the time they bought their first home together, they had already spent most of their lives building things side by side.
The house came with a kitchen Courtney loved immediately. She started baking, not with any particular purpose, just because the kitchen invited it. Brandon was working as a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. Courtney was working in emergency veterinary medicine and teaching future veterinary professionals. They were two hardworking people who had always found ways to show up for others. The baking was, at first, just for them.
Fell in love with the kitchen
One coworker, one question, ten orders
Patience is harder than the baking
Gingerbread kits to a Cake Bar
Our Rooted Tale
A hobby that refused to stay small
Courtney and Brandon Schriver have known each other since they were five years old. They started dating at twelve. By the time they bought their first home together, they had already spent most of their lives building things side by side.
The house came with a kitchen Courtney loved immediately. She started baking, not with any particular purpose, just because the kitchen invited it. Brandon was working as a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. Courtney was working in emergency veterinary medicine and teaching future veterinary professionals. They were two hardworking people who had always found ways to show up for others. The baking was, at first, just for them.
Fell in love with the kitchen
One coworker, one question, ten orders
Patience is harder than the baking
Gingerbread kits to a Cake Bar
Our Rooted Tale
A hobby that refused to stay small
Courtney and Brandon Schriver have known each other since they were five years old. They started dating at twelve. By the time they bought their first home together, they had already spent most of their lives building things side by side.
The house came with a kitchen Courtney loved immediately. She started baking, not with any particular purpose, just because the kitchen invited it. Brandon was working as a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. Courtney was working in emergency veterinary medicine and teaching future veterinary professionals. They were two hardworking people who had always found ways to show up for others. The baking was, at first, just for them.
Fell in love with the kitchen
One coworker, one question, ten orders
Patience is harder than the baking
Gingerbread kits to a Cake Bar
Bestseller Spotlight
Two cookies. One built on nostalgia, one built for celebration.
Cosmic Brownie Cookie
The Cosmic Brownie Cookie is a gourmet cookie built around a very specific kind of memory. It takes the rich, dense character of a brownie and puts it into cookie form, then layers on the flavour that so many people associate with childhood: the Cosmic Brownie, the after-school snack, the thing that appeared in lunchboxes without ceremony and somehow always felt like a small event.
Courtney did not set out to make a nostalgia cookie. She set out to make something genuinely good. The nostalgia turned out to be part of what makes it genuinely good. There is something in the combination of textures and the depth of the chocolate that sends people somewhere specific when they take a bite.
Customers come back for this one. Not just because it tastes like something they remember, but because it tastes better than they remember. That gap between expectation and experience is where the Cosmic Brownie Cookie lives.
Party Cookie
The Party Cookie does not pretend to be subtle. It is colourful, it is celebratory, and it is built for the specific moment when someone needs a small piece of occasion in an otherwise ordinary day. Whether it shows up at a birthday, a gathering, or on a Tuesday that needed brightening, it delivers exactly what it promises.
The name is the brief. Courtney did not overthink it because the cookie does not ask you to. It is fun and it looks like it. The colour and the energy of it are part of the product, not decoration on top of it.
What customers respond to is exactly that honesty. The Party Cookie is not trying to be refined. It is trying to make you smile, and it does.
Bestseller Spotlight
Two cookies. One built on nostalgia, one built for celebration.
Cosmic Brownie Cookie
The Cosmic Brownie Cookie is a gourmet cookie built around a very specific kind of memory. It takes the rich, dense character of a brownie and puts it into cookie form, then layers on the flavour that so many people associate with childhood: the Cosmic Brownie, the after-school snack, the thing that appeared in lunchboxes without ceremony and somehow always felt like a small event.
Courtney did not set out to make a nostalgia cookie. She set out to make something genuinely good. The nostalgia turned out to be part of what makes it genuinely good. There is something in the combination of textures and the depth of the chocolate that sends people somewhere specific when they take a bite.
Customers come back for this one. Not just because it tastes like something they remember, but because it tastes better than they remember. That gap between expectation and experience is where the Cosmic Brownie Cookie lives.
Party Cookie
The Party Cookie does not pretend to be subtle. It is colourful, it is celebratory, and it is built for the specific moment when someone needs a small piece of occasion in an otherwise ordinary day. Whether it shows up at a birthday, a gathering, or on a Tuesday that needed brightening, it delivers exactly what it promises.
The name is the brief. Courtney did not overthink it because the cookie does not ask you to. It is fun and it looks like it. The colour and the energy of it are part of the product, not decoration on top of it.
What customers respond to is exactly that honesty. The Party Cookie is not trying to be refined. It is trying to make you smile, and it does.
Bestseller Spotlight
Two cookies. One built on nostalgia, one built for celebration.
Cosmic Brownie Cookie
The Cosmic Brownie Cookie is a gourmet cookie built around a very specific kind of memory. It takes the rich, dense character of a brownie and puts it into cookie form, then layers on the flavour that so many people associate with childhood: the Cosmic Brownie, the after-school snack, the thing that appeared in lunchboxes without ceremony and somehow always felt like a small event.
Courtney did not set out to make a nostalgia cookie. She set out to make something genuinely good. The nostalgia turned out to be part of what makes it genuinely good. There is something in the combination of textures and the depth of the chocolate that sends people somewhere specific when they take a bite.
Customers come back for this one. Not just because it tastes like something they remember, but because it tastes better than they remember. That gap between expectation and experience is where the Cosmic Brownie Cookie lives.
Party Cookie
The Party Cookie does not pretend to be subtle. It is colourful, it is celebratory, and it is built for the specific moment when someone needs a small piece of occasion in an otherwise ordinary day. Whether it shows up at a birthday, a gathering, or on a Tuesday that needed brightening, it delivers exactly what it promises.
The name is the brief. Courtney did not overthink it because the cookie does not ask you to. It is fun and it looks like it. The colour and the energy of it are part of the product, not decoration on top of it.
What customers respond to is exactly that honesty. The Party Cookie is not trying to be refined. It is trying to make you smile, and it does.
Meet the Founders
Childhood sweethearts, lifelong builders
Courtney & Brandon Schriver
Courtney Schriver works in emergency veterinary medicine and teaches the next generation of veterinary professionals. Brandon is a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. On paper, neither of them is a baker. In practice, they have always been people who show up fully for whatever they care about, and they began caring about this very quickly.
They have known each other since they were five. That is not a detail that comes up as a footnote in their story. It is the foundation of everything the business is. The patience they have with each other, the shorthand, the ability to build something without constant explanation: all of it comes from two decades of knowing the same person.
Courtney is the one who generates the ideas. She will tell you honestly that this is both the engine of the business and the thing she has to manage most carefully. Too many good ideas at once is its own kind of problem. Learning which one to chase now and which one to sit with has been as much a part of running Bailey & Ollie's as the baking itself.
Brandon holds things steady. A Red Seal certification requires discipline and a standard of precision that does not leave much room for shortcuts. He brings that same attention to what they build together: evenings spent baking, weekends at markets, the unglamorous work that makes the public-facing parts possible.
Meet the Founders
Childhood sweethearts, lifelong builders
Courtney & Brandon Schriver
Courtney Schriver works in emergency veterinary medicine and teaches the next generation of veterinary professionals. Brandon is a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. On paper, neither of them is a baker. In practice, they have always been people who show up fully for whatever they care about, and they began caring about this very quickly.
They have known each other since they were five. That is not a detail that comes up as a footnote in their story. It is the foundation of everything the business is. The patience they have with each other, the shorthand, the ability to build something without constant explanation: all of it comes from two decades of knowing the same person.
Courtney is the one who generates the ideas. She will tell you honestly that this is both the engine of the business and the thing she has to manage most carefully. Too many good ideas at once is its own kind of problem. Learning which one to chase now and which one to sit with has been as much a part of running Bailey & Ollie's as the baking itself.
Brandon holds things steady. A Red Seal certification requires discipline and a standard of precision that does not leave much room for shortcuts. He brings that same attention to what they build together: evenings spent baking, weekends at markets, the unglamorous work that makes the public-facing parts possible.
Meet the Founders
Childhood sweethearts, lifelong builders
Courtney & Brandon Schriver
Courtney Schriver works in emergency veterinary medicine and teaches the next generation of veterinary professionals. Brandon is a Red Seal Trailer Mechanic. On paper, neither of them is a baker. In practice, they have always been people who show up fully for whatever they care about, and they began caring about this very quickly.
They have known each other since they were five. That is not a detail that comes up as a footnote in their story. It is the foundation of everything the business is. The patience they have with each other, the shorthand, the ability to build something without constant explanation: all of it comes from two decades of knowing the same person.
Courtney is the one who generates the ideas. She will tell you honestly that this is both the engine of the business and the thing she has to manage most carefully. Too many good ideas at once is its own kind of problem. Learning which one to chase now and which one to sit with has been as much a part of running Bailey & Ollie's as the baking itself.
Brandon holds things steady. A Red Seal certification requires discipline and a standard of precision that does not leave much room for shortcuts. He brings that same attention to what they build together: evenings spent baking, weekends at markets, the unglamorous work that makes the public-facing parts possible.
We did not sit down one day and decide to start a business. What happened is that we started baking, and people started asking, and at some point the asking did not stop. By the time we understood what was happening, we were already in it, and we did not want to stop.
There is something we want you to know about what goes into every order. We both work full-time in careers that ask a lot of us. The baking happens in the hours around those careers: early mornings, evenings, weekends. We are not complaining. We are telling you this because every box that leaves our kitchen comes from that time, and we do not treat any of it as ordinary.
We have had the privilege of being part of people's celebrations. Birthdays, gatherings, moments that needed something a little sweeter. Those occasions matter to us. We are a small family operation, and every order is personal in a way that it simply cannot be at scale.
To everyone who has placed an order, stopped by our booth, shared our name with a friend, or simply cheered us on: you are part of this story. What started in a kitchen we loved has grown into something we could not have imagined, and that growth has come entirely from people like you deciding we were worth supporting.
Come find us at the market. We will be the ones setting up the booth and meaning it.
With warmth,
Courtney and Brandon Schriver
A heartfelt Note
We did not sit down one day and decide to start a business. What happened is that we started baking, and people started asking, and at some point the asking did not stop. By the time we understood what was happening, we were already in it, and we did not want to stop.
There is something we want you to know about what goes into every order. We both work full-time in careers that ask a lot of us. The baking happens in the hours around those careers: early mornings, evenings, weekends. We are not complaining. We are telling you this because every box that leaves our kitchen comes from that time, and we do not treat any of it as ordinary.
We have had the privilege of being part of people's celebrations. Birthdays, gatherings, moments that needed something a little sweeter. Those occasions matter to us. We are a small family operation, and every order is personal in a way that it simply cannot be at scale.
To everyone who has placed an order, stopped by our booth, shared our name with a friend, or simply cheered us on: you are part of this story. What started in a kitchen we loved has grown into something we could not have imagined, and that growth has come entirely from people like you deciding we were worth supporting.
Come find us at the market. We will be the ones setting up the booth and meaning it.
With warmth,
Courtney and Brandon Schriver
A heartfelt Note
We did not sit down one day and decide to start a business. What happened is that we started baking, and people started asking, and at some point the asking did not stop. By the time we understood what was happening, we were already in it, and we did not want to stop.
There is something we want you to know about what goes into every order. We both work full-time in careers that ask a lot of us. The baking happens in the hours around those careers: early mornings, evenings, weekends. We are not complaining. We are telling you this because every box that leaves our kitchen comes from that time, and we do not treat any of it as ordinary.
We have had the privilege of being part of people's celebrations. Birthdays, gatherings, moments that needed something a little sweeter. Those occasions matter to us. We are a small family operation, and every order is personal in a way that it simply cannot be at scale.
To everyone who has placed an order, stopped by our booth, shared our name with a friend, or simply cheered us on: you are part of this story. What started in a kitchen we loved has grown into something we could not have imagined, and that growth has come entirely from people like you deciding we were worth supporting.
Come find us at the market. We will be the ones setting up the booth and meaning it.
With warmth,
Courtney and Brandon Schriver
A heartfelt Note
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