As you rush through this holiday season, consider simplifying your life with holiday goodies from your Market Bakery. It’s easy. And everything you'll find here tastes great, just like Grandma used to make.

Only simple, wholesome ingredients make it into all our baked goods. You can find Sugar Cookies and delicious Molasses Gingerbread Cookies, hand decorated and ready to go, as well as Buttery Shortbread – one of my favorites. There are so many wonderful cookies, the hardest part is choosing! Luckily, we offer cookie trays loaded with a variety of Market Bakery favorites. Just like all of goodies we carry, our bakery trays are beautifully decorated.

This year, we have even more gift items to choose from, including festive dried fruit with less sugar than most. Made without preservatives, these dried fruits make a wonderful, healthy gift for that special someone. We also have an attractively packaged trio of nuts and fruit, making it a great gift choice.

Sweets always make great gifts, too. Choose from a wide variety of all the best, locally produced chocolates, truffles, marzipan, cookies and candies. A couple of my favorites are the Cranberry Sweets, made on the Oregon Coast – simply incredible! We also have Cherry Country Chocolate Covered cherries. These are not the artificial, syrupy variety. These are straightforward and delicious – just dried cherries dipped in your choice of Dark or Milk Chocolate. Yummy! As usual, we have a great selection of Moonstruck chocolate and Taza Stone ground chocolate, a popular soy-free favorite! You'll fill a gift basket with uniquely Oregon gifts in no time.

It’s fun to partner with you in making this holiday a special one for your family and friends. Happy shopping. I’ll see you at the Market!