Say hello to New June’s first brick-and-mortar bakery in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood.
New June was founded in 2021 as a “baking as pandemic therapy” passion project by Noelle Blizzard, who is entirely self-taught from cookbooks and YouTube videos. Her online cake studio and micro-bakery (operated out of a small, commercial kitchen) quickly amassed a national following, namely for the brand’s signature vintage-inspired and Lambeth-style cakes.
Three years later, Blizzard was named a Rising Star Baker by StarChefs. New June’s cakes have received national praise from The New York Times’ T Magazine, Good Morning America, Food & Wine, and Architectural Digest.
“I got into baking as a therapeutic hobby early in the pandemic; I think back to 2020, wearing my 3-month-old daughter on my chest while I made shortbread to sell in a fundraiser, and truly cannot believe or could have predicted the bakery that now stands,” shared Blizzard, the bakery’s founder and owner.
New June is a micro bakery and cake studio located in Philadelphia. New June’s team specializes in seasonal bespoke cakes, cookies, and pies. The brand has been nationally celebrated for marrying aesthetically stunning cake design with delicious, high-quality flavor profiles.
Seasonal flavors
New June prioritizes aesthetics and flavor in equal measure, utilizing high-quality ingredients to deliver nostalgia-inducing, seasonal flavors. Sweetened with homemade jams and mascarpone whipped creams, New June’s savory-leaning ingredients are combined with texture-rich, crunchy elements to deliver complex fruit-forward cake flavors that convert even those who say they don’t like cake (like Blizzard). The bakery will offer full cakes, 4-inch mini cakes, and cake slices.
Classic flavors include the following: Cardamon pistachio cream. Vanilla sprinkle. Cookies and vanilla sprinkle. Vanilla sprinkle and chocolate French buttercream. Classic vanilla bean.
Chocolate flavors include the following: Vanilla chocolate chip and milk chocolate espresso with raspberry. Cookies and tahini with graham. Chocolate chip olive oil and tahini caramel. French chocolate devils food.
Fruit Forward flavors include the following: Lemony raspberry jam. Raspberry vanilla chocolate chip with milk chocolate espresso. Brown butter fennel cake with blueberry & lime jam and brown butter cream cheese.
Current Seasonal flavors include the following: Olive oil pumpkin chocolate chip. PB and (strawberry rhubarb) J. Late summer mixed berry and matcha shortcake. Spiced pear pie shortcake.
“Opening New June’s first storefront is a return to my neighborhood, where it all began, baking for my friends and neighbors, contributing to a special sense of shared community, with the joy only a delicious sweet treat from your tiny local bakery can offer,” the owner says.
“From day 1, New June was developed with the guiding thought: ‘If I ever had a bakery, what would I want to see on the menu?, and then: If there was ever a bakery in my neighborhood, what would I most want it to offer?’... And that's what we'll be.”
Cakes, cookies, pies and more
In addition to cakes, New June will offer a same-day retail menu on Friday and Saturday at the bakery. The retail menu will feature an assortment of seasonal and classic single-layer “breakfast cakes,” cookies, seasonal tarts and pies, and more These items are made with the same intentionality as New June’s cakes, uncompromising in high-quality ingredients, nuanced flavors, design-forward as a bakery standard.
Breakfast Cake highlights include the following: Banana tea cake, salted caramel with tahini cream cheese frosting. Tasty cake candy cake, fluffy yellow cake with peanut butter and glass chocolate ganache. Pumpkin tea cake, mini chocolate chips, and brown butter cream cheese frosting. Pistachio and rose semolina olive oil cake. Classic chiffon strawberry shortcake.
Cookie flavors include the following: Krispie cornflake marshmallow. Matcha cocoa swirl. Confetti sugar cookie. Cornflake snickerdoodle. Brown butter poppy seed with fennel and oat. Chewy lemon with swirls of seasonal jam. Brown butter chocolate chip. Classic chewy brownie. Salted tahini caramel brownie.
Vintage Cake Designed Sugar Cookies: Earl Grey & Lemon. Saffron, Orange & Star Anise. Salted Rosemary & Lemon.
Pie options include caramelized honey pumpkin, spiced double-crust apple and pear, cookies & tahini cheesecake, pumpkin pie swirl cheesecake, carrot cake cheesecake.
