The chocolate candies are better than anything store bought. The kitchen is very clean and well organized. The candies and baked goods are ALL made from scratch. Made from a longtime, several generation, handed down book of recipes. Sarah helped her aunt Olive mix and make up the different items. I always get the peanuts covered in chocolate, turtles, crescent rolls and loaves of oatmeal-honey bread. There's much more to sample from the Knaus Candy Kitchen Tom H. read more

During a recent trip thru rural America I stopped by a farmers market. Yeah - fresh tomatoes and other garden goodies. As I pulled in I noticed the blue bakery truck - yeah fresh bread. Long ago I use to visit this farmers market weekly as I was in the area weekly for work. I was disappointed today to see only three vendors (unlike the past they had lots of vendors), but hey fresh tomatoes and fresh bread to go with dinner, how could I go wrong. In the past I purchased items from the Knaus ladies every time I went to the market. My last trip to this market was two years ago. Unfortunately two weeks in a row I received stale bread. I purchased bread the second week believing the stale bread was an error in stock rotation because I had always had good bakery items from the Knaus ladies. Fast forward...dinner's ready, my husband took a bite of the bread and said, "I see they are still peddling stale bread". One bite later and I had to agree - STALE. Needless to say I was very disappointed. Hopefully others are having better luck with their bread purchase from this vendor. read more

I have visited the farmers market in Blue Springs for a few years now. Every year it continues to grow a little more....the one vendor I always seek out is "the bread ladies". I love the breads, pies and rolls they make. I have even placed orders for special occasions. Always a great experience and they are so friendly and helpful. read more