East Idaho Eats: Chubbuck bakery and restaurant wants to ‘bake you happy’

Photo: (from left) Tres Leches cake, berries and pick and Key Lime pastry from Shay’s Pie Place successful Chubbuck; Video: Shay’s Pie Place proprietor Shay Longhurst talks astir her bakery and restaurant. | Jordan Wood, EastIdahoNews.com

CHUBBUCK — Since opening past year, Shay’s Pie Place has operated pinch 1 extremity — to cook you happy.

Owner Shay Longhurst, a erstwhile nurse, launched nan business aft deciding to perpetrate herself to baking. Now, her bakery serves nan Chubbuck area pinch cakes, pies, brownies, cookies and truthful overmuch more.

A personal-sized Key Lime pastry and a berries and pick cup from Shay’s Pie Place. | Kalama Hines, EastIdahoNews.com

For customers successful hunt of lunch, Shay’s offers regular luncheon specials — for illustration sandwiches, salads and chickenhearted cookware pies. And nary Shay’s luncheon would beryllium complete without a personal-sized aliases bite-sized pie.

Of course, a sizable assortment of full-sized pies are besides available.

For our visit, Longhurst had EastIdahoNews.com effort a action of delicious offerings — Tres Leches, berries and cream, Key Lime pie, chocolate-haupia pastry and a chickenhearted cookware pie.

The berries and pick were a delicious and refreshing snack, cleanable for a lukewarm day, arsenic was nan Tres Leches, which besides provided each nan sweet, creamy delectability you would beryllium looking for from nan classical Mexican dessert.

The astir astonishing offering was, without a doubt, nan chocolate-haupia pie.

Chocolate-haupia pastry from Shay’s | Kalama Hines, EastIdahoNews.com

Haupia — a Hawaiian coconut pudding — was not thing I was expecting to find astatine nan Chubbuck bakery. But it was precisely what I was hoping it would be, pinch a lightly saccharine coconut creamy taste. And each connected apical a furniture of cocoa pick bully capable to astir distract from nan coconut flavor.

The Key Lime was an arsenic cleanable equilibrium of saccharine and creamy pinch a clear citrus twist.

Shay’s chickenhearted cookware pastry filling was, again, each you could expect, pinch chunks of chickenhearted to spell pinch peas, carrots, maize and greenish beans.

One point each nan pies had successful communal is an fantabulous crust. The Key Lime comes pinch a crumbly graham cracker crust, while nan others travel pinch nan classical flaky crust.

All items made astatine Shay’s are disposable for pre-order — if nan ingredients are disposable — pinch 24 to 48 hours notice, Longhurst explained. Orders tin beryllium placed by telephone — astatine (208) 223-9318 — aliases email — astatine shayspieplace@gmail.com.

For much accusation astir Shay’s aliases what they carry, sojourn their Facebook page — here — aliases website — here.

Shay’s Pie Place is located astatine 4876 Yellowstone Avenue, and is unfastened Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.