bakerySave My Bakery · Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired March 19, 2014
Viking Pastries
Ardmore
Relocated. The business picked up and moved. It now operates as Viking Pastries.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 1 · March 19, 2014 · bakery
series premiere; city/state not stated in synopsis, needs P2 lookup. NOTE: this show (Food Network, host Kerry Vincent, 1 season/9 episodes, aired Mar-May 2014) is a DISTINCT show from "Buddy's Bakery Rescue" (TLC, host Buddy Valastro) -- the inventory file's parenthetical "(aka Save My Bakery, TLC rebrand)" is incorrect; these are two different shows with different hosts/networks that share a similar premise.
What happened after
Original Cricket Avenue location in Ardmore (operating 60+ years) closed; the family business relocated and per its own site is "now operating out of Kay Kay's Bakery in South Philly."
Closure date on record: 2018
What happened on the show
The series premiere of Save My Bakery opened on Viking Pastries, once the busiest counter in its neighborhood before grief hollowed the place out. A family tragedy struck the owners, and the synopsis is blunt about what followed: the bakery lost its heart, and what remained was a shrinking base of older regulars keeping the ovens barely warm. That is the situation Kerry Vincent walked into on the March 2014 debut, a competition-champion cake decorator and Food Network fixture who spent this short-lived series parachuting into struggling family bakeries and rebuilding them over a few frantic days. Her method leaned on the same things every time: sharpen the product, drag a tired shop into the present, and force owners who had stopped seeing their own business clearly to look again. The source material on Viking Pastries stays thin on specifics beyond that emotional collapse, so we will not invent dish critiques or scenes the episode did not show. What is documented is a bakery that had been the best in town, undone less by competition than by loss.
After the cameras left
Where Viking Pastries stands today is the honest gap in this entry. The synopsis never named the town, and our verification pass could not pin the bakery to a confirmed address or a current trading status, which leaves us unwilling to declare it open or closed. Plenty of the family bakeries from this 2014 season have since shut their doors, and a first-episode subject carrying an unresolved family tragedy fits that harder-hit pattern more than it fits the survivors. Still, a pattern is not a confirmation. We would rather log Viking Pastries as unverified than guess at a fate we cannot document, and we will update this record the moment a reliable location or status surfaces.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.