Originally published in Yellowstone Valley Woman.
At Flours Bakery, Pastry Chef Jacquelynn Beckman sprinkles joy on her pastries, cookies, and breads. You can find the shop she co-owns with her husband, Jeremiah, just off King Avenue, nestled in a nondescript strip mall. Inside the bland industrial exterior, distinctive cakes, scones, muffins, cookies, pies, croissants, and ice cream wait to greet you.
The bakery, which opened in May of 2023, carries a sense of nostalgia and casual comfort —think silk flowers, dried wheat arrangements, and metal bistro tables — but once at the chest-high, curved glass case, the treats in the windowed box hold a flavor of sophistication, and beauty dusted with playfulness and lots of pretty.
Baking cakes and desserts, Jacquelynn says, “It was always a positive, a joy giver in my life.”…