Sourdough Whisperers Old School, Old Fashioned Aussie Cakes, Traditional Aussie Hotbake, Coffee, Local Corner Bakery Narrabundah; BOUGIE® BAKERY;  Boutique local wholesaler - proudly serving Canberra since 1989
BAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
DANNY’S BAKERY
Rising Above The Rest, We're The Toast Of Canberra!
Danny’s Bakery is proud to serve up delicious hot bread and in-house made cakes, pastries and pies. Our freshly baked goods are old fashioned and timeless. Come visit our locally owned and operated bakery today and treat yourself to the best baked goods in town. We know you’ll thank us later.
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Baking The World A Better Place!
DANNY'S BAKERY - THE LEGEND, THE OLD-SCHOOL SOURDOUGH CANBERRA TRADITION.
Want old school bread? Specialty bougie® breads not found in stores? You've come to the right place!
Danny's Bakery is the oldest and first sourdough bakery in Canberra, and we have been established since the 80's!
Danny and his sons and grandsons make hand-moulded timed sourdoughs, using lost-through-time bygone old fashioned sourdough baking methods taught to Danny 60 years ago! These bygone methods are no longer taught, and would be considered very old fashioned by today's baking standards, which is why the bread is so unique and tasty! Nobody does it like Danny's, because nobody knows how!
Danny's Bakery has always been a family ran business, delivering hot fresh bread to Canberrans for over 30 years from our shopfront, and supplying discerning small supermarkets. Our bakery is particularly famous in the Canberra region for our unique huge sourdough Easter Buns, which customers enjoy buying hot straight from the oven throughout the Easter period. We were voted BEST EASTER BUNS IN CANBERRA in 2021!
https://the-riotact.com/who-bakes-canberras-best-hot-cross-bun/549638
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Our bread has NO preservatives, and most of it has no sugar and no fat (some of our Saturday specialty breads do.)
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All of our main daily sourdough breads are VEGAN friendly including our famous Hot Cross Buns and our Saturday Athiest Buns (or heathen buns - our 'not cross buns' :)
We hope you enjoy the bread, because bread is life, and our aim has always been one of baking the world a better place!
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OPENING HOURS
Drop By!
Mon - Fri: 4am - 3pm
Sat: 4am - 2pm
Sun: Closed
OUR DAYTIME FAMILY BAKERS
The ones you see every day
DANNY COLLINS (THE MAN HIMSELF)
Sourdough Whisperer
Danny is still going strong after over 55 years in the trade!
Danny was born in Nelligen NSW and began his career in the coastal town of Bateman's Bay NSW. He was head baker and ovensman at Coggans Bakery in Braddon for many years before establishing his first bakery in Queanbeyan, and then moving to Narrabundah several years later. Danny has personally trained his sons and grandsons in his art.
JUSTIN COLLINS (OLDEST GRANDSON)
Head Baker, Pie Guy, Pastry Magician
Justin is Danny's oldest grandson and began working with Danny at 14 years old on Friday nights, and then took up an apprenticeship with him which he finished when he was 22.
Juz has a special touch for pie making and cakes, and he is the specialist of our Olive Artisan Sourdough and our fabulous slow cooked with Guiness chunky steak pies.
TRAVIS COLLINS (YOUNGER GRANDSON)
Senior baker, cakes artiste
Travis started working with Danny and his brother at 14 on Friday nights, and began his apprenticeship on an Australian Based School Apprenticeship, which meant he managed to become a fully qualified master baker at the amazing age of only 18 years old!!
Trav helps out his brother every day with bread, and stocks up the cakes fridge with old fashioned goodness. Trav's specialty is rye and cupcakes.
THE REST OF OUR FAMILY
Night time or part time
The Matriarch of our family, Anne, used to have a sign in our bakery that read: Now everybody smile and pretend that we're just a nice, normal family!
KATIE COLLINS (DAUGHTER)
Bakery Wrangler
Katie is Danny's daughter and mum to Justin and Travis. She works every morning from 6am to 10am slicing bagging packing orders and getting the shop into tip top shape, and serves on Saturdays. Accounts manager.
RUSSELL COLLINS (YOUNGEST SON)
Slicer professional, Delivery specialist
Russell has been working in the bakery since he was about 18. He slices up the bread every day for our wholesalers, and takes it out to their shops.
JESSE COLLINS (OLDEST SON)
Head Night Baker
Jesse has been working with Danny since he was 15 years old and he is diligently baking at nights so we have it ready to start cutting up in the morning for our deliveries. Loves a chat.
WAYNE (KATIE'S HUSBAND)
All Round Good Guy, Saturday slicer/driver
Wayne is Katie's husband and when he's not being a director in the federal public service, he's slicing up bread for us on Saturdays and taking it out to the northside. Wayne also fixes everything, and comes up with good ideas.
ANNE COLLINS (FAMILY MATRIACH)
In loving memory
Anne is Danny's beloved wife - they got married in 1966! Beloved mother and grandmother, she worked in the bakery daily for over 30 years. Sadly passed, however we feel her presence every day.
OURÂ MOST POPULAR SOURDOUGH LOAVES
Real Sourdough, Real Taste
SOURDOUGH WHITE VIENNA (ITALIAN)
Semi-sourdough, this has some yeast, it is preservative, fat and sugar free.
ARTISAN (GERMAN)
Full sourdough, this has no yeast. Ours is super soft unlike many - trade secret.
MULTRIGRAIN (BAVARIAN)
Semisourdough, white grain - sesame on top. We ensure the grain is not 'hard' so this is still a lovely soft loaf.
MORE SOURDOUGH GOODNESS
Real Sourdough, Real Taste
RYE WITH CARAWAY SEEDS
A semi-sourdough, this rye is traditional in its taste, including the slightly aniseed taste and gorgous smell of carroway seeds
DUTCH FRUITLOAF
This delicious sourdough fruit is absolutely packed with fruit and uses diced apricots instead of peel.
WHOLEMEAL
Our wholemeal is a semi-sourdough that is soft inside and crusty on the outside. such a tasty loaf even those who usually do not enjoy wholemeal like this one!
SATURDAY SPECIALTY BREADS
Our special breads do change from week to week, and sometimes are seasonal.
ARTISAN OLIVE LOAF
This is a full sourdough packed with fresh bought and whole kalamata olives! amazing with your antipasto and cheese platters.
ARTISAN PUMPKIN & SUNFLOWER LOAF
This full sourdough has an amazing rich pumkin colour and taste, enhanced with soft sunflower seeds. Goes great with soups, cheeses or toasted.
CHEESY POTATO LOAF
This rich full sourdough has a beautiful texture and mild potato taste, its not a heavy loaf as you'd expect; topped with a crispy cheese crust. Amazing all by itself, all purpose loaf.
CHEESY POTATO BUNS
Luscious cheesy buns, huge, light potato taste, sweet onions and generous cheese top, these are a real treat. Full sourdough
ATHIEST BUNS (NOT CROSS BUNS, HEATHEN ROLLS)
As our sourdough Easter buns are beloved to Canberrans, we offer a crossless version every Saturday. Huge, like a big hug from your Nan.
FOCCACCIA
Justin rustles these up from time to time and they are incredible, made with olive oil, sea salt and Italian herbs.
Sourdough can't be copied, or faked, and it definitely cant be rushed, though many try. The proof is in the simplicity of the ingredients, the depth of the texture, and the taste on the tongue. Method is everything.....
and mine are a family secret!
Danny Collins
BREAD IS LIFE!
A SELECTION OF OUR OLD FASHIONED CAKES
always made inhouse only, with fresh cream, these are treats of yesteryear - changes daily
CHCOLATE AND CARAMEL ECLAIRS
Delicious fresh choux pastry filled with real cream, these are massive.
VANILLA SLICES & CUSTARDÂ TARTS
1950's syle tradional.
MATCHSTICKS, LAMINGTONS, STRUDEL & CREAM APPLE TURNOVERS
old fashioned and everlasting.
OTHER SPECIALTIES
The bakers each have a few specialties that are inhouse and very popular
BRAISED STEAK SLOW COOKED CHUNKY PIES
All our pies are made completely in house, and are delicious! the chunky steak is slow cooked using the finest beef. Melts in your mouth!
HOT CROSS BUNS
A canberra tradition these are huge, packed full of fruit, and sourdough! dusted or undusted. Sold 'athiest' without crosses on Saturdays outside of the Easter period.
CHRISTMAS CAKES
Like your Nan used to make.
CUPCAKES
We offer an ever changing range of gorgeous cupcakes using fresh cream every day. Always affordable
SELF SERVICE COFFEE
Featuring our beautiful Rex Royal S300 state of the art self serve coffee machine proudly provided by our partner in all things coffee, KoffeeOne
CAPPACCINO (GORGEOUSLY THICK FROTH)
$3.50 sm $4 lg
LATTE (THICK BEAUTIFUL MILK FROTH)
$3.50 sm $4 lg
FLAT WHITE OR LONG BLACK (FOR THE TRADITIONALISTS)
$3.50 sm $4 lg
HOT OR WHITE CHOCOLATE (THE BEST YOU'LL EVER TASTE!)
$3.50 sm or lg
CHOC MOCHA OR WHITE CHOC MOCHA
$3.50 sm $4 lg
EXPRESSO OR MACCHIATO (FOR THE FANCYPANTS)
$3.50
PRICE LIST
Take Your Pick
$6Â - ALL TRADITIONAL SOURDOUGHS (MIN 900 GRAMS)
This includes our Italian Vienna, Bavarian Grain, Wholemeal, Rye & Carraway and German Artisan
Dutch fruit loaf is $8
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White sandwich (not a sourdough) $4
$10Â - ALL FANCY SPECIALITY BREADS PLUS ATHIEST BUNS & CHEESY ROLLS BY THE 6 PK
Single specialty rolls are $2.50 each.
Just because its awesomely good doesn't mean it shouldn't be good value
Specialty breads subject to bakers temperament and the weather
$3.50 - $6.50 - ALL DANISH, CAKES, CUPCAKES, TARTS & SLICES
Go on, you can afford more at Danny's because top quality doesn't mean it should be super expensive
When we say ALL DANISH and ALL CAKES we mean it. We want you to be able to treat the family or the office or your gran. YES THE SLICES ARE HUGE.
$5.50Â - $6.50 ALL PIES & SAUSAGE ROLLS
Standard Aussie Traditional pies, Curry Pies, and Beef & Mushroom pies are all $5.50. Steak Bacon & Cheese is $6. Braised Chunky Beef is $6.50. Aussie Sausage rolls are $5.
Our Pie Guy Justin has his own following just for his pies and sausage rolls. All made by hand, by him.
WHOLESALE? WHY OF COURSE!
SMALL DISCERNING SUPERS & MARKETS
We cater exactly to YOU
We were the FIRST small boutique bakery offering wholesale in Canberra, over 30 years ago; there's been a lot of Johnny Come Lately's since then, but we remain Canberra's number one choice in sourdough, and are GENUINELY CANBERRA LOCALS, not a franchise, family owned. Email for details.
CONTACT US
6 Iluka St, Narrabundah ACT 2604, Australia
(02) 6295 7545