His cravings and his loyal customer base put him up to new challenges and it wasn’t long before his menu expanded and he began dreaming of opening his own location. The flow of ideas were steady but so were his fears and the fatigue of working a full time corporate job while growing the business and experimenting with new ideas. Getting up to a demand of 400+ cakes a week meant long nights often without sleep at all, a fridge full of product and no room for real food, the panic of running out of ingredients, 2am kitchen fails— the works. Instead of discouraging him, he found his determination to make the bakery his creative future. Artists will always find a way to create and for Spencer, this was evident in the care he took to make sure that even at the break of dawn without sleep and a looming clock to punch at his day job, every edible piece of art was just right.

Growing up in St. Louis Park, he never imagined his dreams would bring him right back to where it started. Spencer left home to study textiles and surface design in NYC. After graduation, he spent years in Manhattan until he found himself longing for home. He returned to Minneapolis and started baking in 2016, reinvigorated with the purpose he was seeking all along. Life is funny sometimes— every Saturday morning of his childhood was spent walking to Palms Bakery with his mom and sister— and now his bakery has come to life in the same community just a three minute drive from the house he grew up in. Palms Bakery is long gone but the sweet memories remain— the sugary smells, beautiful delights encased in the glass, and the familiar smiles of neighbors. Hold The Wheat has been designed with some of the old school charm of your favorite neighborhood spot with an injection of fresh ideas. Every detail of your experience is meant to invoke a sense of fun with nods to the baking classics of the 50’s, the food ingenuity of the 60’s, and the freedom of the 70’s.