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A bakery counter marked "Streetfood" displays cupcakes, brownies, traybakes and muffins on wooden crates and stands.
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Bad Girl Bakery

A cake shop and café on the main street of Muir of Ord, baking by hand, with breakfasts, soups and sandwiches, and vegan and gluten-free choices.

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On the main street of Muir of Ord, a pink sandstone building carries a sign with a cartoon woman in a polka-dot dress: Cafe and Bad Girl Bakery.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

Bad girls, the motto goes, make good cake.

It began as a small bakery at home and grew into one of the best-known cake makers in the Highlands. Jeni Iannetta and Douglas Hardie still bake by hand, the way you would at home, only in bigger mixers, and the counter here is heaped with the results: brownies, traybakes, cupcakes and cream-topped muffins, with flavours that change with the seasons. If you prefer savoury, there are breakfasts, soups, sandwiches and daily specials, to eat in or take away, and there are always vegan and gluten-free choices.

The café opens Wednesday to Saturday. Their second café is in the food hall of the Victorian Market in Inverness.

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Before you go

Open Wednesday to Saturday, 9am to 3.30pm.

The bakery also has a café in the Victorian Market in Inverness.

Where
Great North Road, Muir of Ord, IV6 7TP.
Open
Wed to Sat, 9am to 3.30pm.
Also
The Victorian Market, Inverness.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
9am–3.30pm
Thursday
9am–3.30pm
Friday
9am–3.30pm
Saturday
9am–3.30pm
Sunday
Closed

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Did you know

A bakery counter marked "Streetfood" displays muffins, brownies and cakes on wooden crates and tiered stands.
Did you know

From a kitchen table.

Bad Girl Bakery began as a wee at-home bakery, where six cakes a week was busy.

A bakery counter marked "Streetfood" displays cream-topped muffins, brownies and cupcakes on wooden crates.
Did you know

A cookbook too.

The bakery published its first cookbook in late 2021.

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From our guide to Ross and Cromarty

On the main street of Muir of Ord, a pink sandstone building carries a sign with a cartoon woman in a polka-dot dress. Bad girls, the motto goes, make good cake. Jeni Iannetta and Douglas Hardie started out baking at home, and they still bake by hand, only in bigger mixers. The counter is heaped with brownies, traybakes, cupcakes and cream-topped muffins, with flavours that change with the seasons. For something savoury there are breakfasts, soups and sandwiches, and there are always vegan and gluten-free choices.

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Where it is

On the main street of Muir of Ord, IV6 7TP, with a car park opposite.

Close byMuir of Ord.
  1. The Singleton of Glen Ord Distillery, Muir of OrdThe Singleton of Glen Ord Distillery, Muir of OrdThe distillery at the edge of the village.Under a mile 3 min by road
  2. Robertson's Speciality Farm Shop near Beauly, a whitewashed building with a blue sign and a Farm Shop Open board on a barrel.Robertson's Farm ShopA farm shop at Beauly.2 miles 4 min by road
  3. The Old School Beauly, a twin-gabled Victorian stone school on the High Street, under a bright blue sky.The Old School Beauly2 miles 5 min by road
  4. Beauly PrioryBeauly PrioryThe ruined abbey church of a priory founded about 1230 for French Valliscaulian monks, in a wooded, riverside setting in Beauly.2 miles 5 min by road
  5. Deli counter staff behind glass cases of pastries, with Shore crisps in wicker baskets belowCorner on the Square2 miles 5 min by road
  6. The Victorian MarketThe Victorian MarketTheir second café, in Inverness.13 miles 19 min by road
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