This Old-Time General Store Is Home To The Best Bakery In Illinois

In an unassuming general store, located between Galesburg and Peoria on the edge of the Spoon River State Forest, you’ll find one of the best bakeries in Illinois. Believe us, when it comes to baked goods, the old-timey Dahinda General Store is the real deal.

Stepping through the door and onto the worn floorboards of Dahinda General Store, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking you’d been transported to a different era.

Don’t worry - you’re still in the present, but at Dahinda General Store, you’re also in a kind of magical place.

The store offers an eclectic variety of merchandise, including locally-made candles, soaps, and jewelry, as well as souvenirs, like T-shirts.

The store also sells unusual items, like a large array of rocks and geodes.

You’ll also find products you’d typically expect to see in a general store, such as jams, locally-roasted coffee, artisan salsas, and honey.

Dahinda General Store takes pride in its locally-sourced goods and ingredients.

Such ingredients may be put to their best use, however, in the store’s beautiful baked goods - as the homey aroma of its bakery’s products attests.

In addition to breads, Dahinda General Store offers a whole spectrum of cookie flavors.

You definitely would not go wrong sampling the bakery’s caramel apple cheesecake bars…

or any of its other tasty bars, for that matter.

The store’s dessert rolls, doughnuts, and cinnamon rolls will also tempt you.

Of course, you’ll also find all manner of cakes, including cupcakes, in the bakery section.

Dahinda General Store even makes custom cakes for special occasions.

Visit Dahinda General Store’s Facebook page for its business hours and up-to-date information. Dahinda is located near two of the Prairie State’s scenic covered bridges - the Allaman and Wolf bridges - if you’re interested in exploring more of this bucolic part of Illinois.

Have you tried Dahinda General Store’s baked goods? What do you think the best bakery in Illinois is?