Pettit's Pastry, Omaha

The Pettit family is used to getting up early. A tradition begun by bakery owner Richard Pettit in 1954, Richard's sons Bret and Mark are now the ones shaking themselves out of bed to ensure the scratch-made donuts, bismarks, and freshly baked pastries are hot and ready when the doors open at 4 a.m. Other morning morsels include homemade muffins, chewy cookies, and gooey cinnamon and pecan rolls, while pies are also baked each day to guarantee their freshness for special occasions or rumbles between warring gangs of clowns. For celebrations, the chefs can be also appointed to create custom cakes for weddings and birthdays or decadent coffee cakes that help make any morning feel extra-special. Pettit's Pastry recently opened a new location in West Omaha.