Our Story
From a German family kitchen to your door.
Oh Happy Bake is Brigitte's family recipes, baked in Nanaimo and delivered across central Vancouver Island. Here's how a handful of recipes from Germany became the cake you order for the people you love.
Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, the way Brigitte learned it.
Chapter one
The recipes came first.
Brigitte grew up in Germany, where baking was something passed down at the kitchen table. When she moved to Canada, the family recipes came with her.
Take the Black Forest Cake. Here it often means cherry pie filling and whipped topping from a tub. Brigitte's is the original Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte: dark chocolate sponge soaked in real cherry liqueur, layered with fresh whipped cream and cherries. It's still the cake you order most.
How we got here
Thirteen years in the making.
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2013
Oh Happy Bake begins.
Brigitte starts baking her family recipes for her new home on Vancouver Island. For the first few years it's all cookies, sold at local markets one tray at a time.
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2020
Markets close. Delivery begins.
With markets on pause, we start bringing the baking straight to your door, and our cakes become the centre of birthdays and get-togethers.
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2021
Room at the table.
Gluten-free and plant-based options join the menu, so nobody has to skip the cake.
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2025
A new favourite.
Raspberry Vanilla Dream joins the menu and quickly becomes one of the cakes you reach for most.
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2026
Best Bakery in Nanaimo.
You voted us Best Bakery in the Nanaimo News Bulletin Best of the City awards. Thank you.
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Chapter two
A cake is a way to show up.
Somewhere along the way, we noticed who was ordering. Plenty of you live right here in Nanaimo. A lot of you live far from someone you love on the Island, and still want to be part of their birthday.
So that's what we bake for. You order online, we prepare the cake fresh to order, and it lands at their door in Nanaimo, Lantzville, Cedar, Parksville or Qualicum Beach. Add a card or flowers and it's almost like being there.
Today
Still a family business.
Brigitte develops and tests every recipe. Her daughter Helga runs our commercial kitchen in Nanaimo and prepares your order. Her husband Peter is usually the one at your door with your delivery, and her son Ben keeps the website and marketing running.
We use 100% real ingredients and no preservatives, because that's how Brigitte was taught to bake.
And the cookies never left.
Cookie Club brings 2 packs of cookies to your door every month.
Join Cookie ClubChapter three
Your table is the next chapter.
Whatever you're celebrating, we'd love to bake for it.
