Pi Day (3/14) -- local Excalibur Bakery details of celebrating annual day for Pastry emphasis

from NIles DAILY STAR coverage:

NILES — Blueberry, apple, peach, coffee cream, strawberry peach lemonade, Michigan cherry — these are just a few of many options of pies whipped up by Excalibur Bakery that will be offered to customers in the name of Pi Day, which is celebrated on March 14.

Deanna and Chris Briggs, of Buchanan, Michigan co-own Excalibur Bakery. The couple said they wanted to offer a sweet way for people to celebrate the holiday.

“We are bringing back a lot of our most beloved pie recipes that we sell over the summer,” Deanna said. “We just thought it would be fun to bring that out for it. Pretty simple — a pie for Pi Day. It’s a fun and creative way to celebrate. It’s always fun to do something a little outside of the box.”

Customers can place their pie orders through 8 p.m. Monday, March 12, by contacting Excalibur through its Facebook page, email: Excaliburbakery@gmail.com or via phone at (269) 340-0771. Pies can be arranged to be picked up at the Niles Entrepreneurial Culinary Inubator, 219 N. Fourth St. the evening of March 13 or afternoon and evening of March 14. Fruit pies are $15 each and real cream pies, which are made with real whipped cream, cost $16.75.

The couple has run the business for the past three years from an incubator kitchen in downtown Niles. They offer catering services for special events and can be found peddling sweet treats from a booth at the local farmers markets or Third Thursdays in Niles downtown. In addition to pies, they sell bread, pastries and other baked goods.

POSTED AT Leaderpub dot-com (March 9 online edition)