"But a friend said it was the best cheesecake in town," she said. This day, she also splurged on German chocolate cake.Ĭustomer Jade Azevedo, a student at the University of Oregon from Santa Cruz, Calif., said she had never visited the stand before. Victoria Smithweiland of Eugene showed up to make her regular Saturday purchases of hot chocolate and coffee. On a recent Saturday afternoon, the line of customers held steady at two to three people deep. Their keys to making a living at this: quality ingredients, good customer service, and being lucky enough to have a local market venue that is a magnet for thousands of visitors every weekend. "We can support ourselves with that," she said. In that time, they've missed one Saturday Market, the day after their daughter Willa was born on June 14, 1991, Colleen Bauman said.Īside from selling at Saturday Market and Holiday Market during the winter, the Baumans also sell at the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta. Now, nearly 40 years later, cheesecake remains their best seller, although Dana's Cheesecake Bakery sells other cakes too, including German chocolate. They applied to set up a hamburger stand at the market, but a market official suggested they instead sell cheesecake, which Dana Bauman had recently made and brought to a market potluck, Colleen Bauman said. These days, Dana and Colleen Bauman are famous in Lane County and not just for their cheesecake - officially known as Dana's Cheesecake, which they sell at Saturday Market.īut in 1979, when they first thought about entering the food-making business, they had in mind fancy hamburgers, Colleen Bauman recalled.
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