Wild Flour Baking Co.

Wild Flour Baking Co. is a bakery and coffee house in a circa-1900 butter-yellow house with lilac trim at 307 Main Street in downtown Parkville, open Wednesday through Sunday mornings since February 2025. Owner Megan Andersen, a self-taught baker and former McLain’s cake decorator, started the business as a custom-cake-and-cookie operation in her Riverside kitchen in 2022, bought and gutted the old house in 2024, and now runs it as a neighborhood morning stop — kolaches, cinnamon rolls, baked oatmeal, cake bites, drop cookies and flavored lattes — while the custom wedding cakes and decorated sugar cookies that built the business continue out of the back.

Description

The bakery occupies a small, 120-year-old house on Main Street in downtown Parkville, painted butter yellow with lilac trim.¹² Inside, a pastry case and lit menu boards face the door; to the left is a sitting room with a couch, four-tops and stained glass, and further rooms — one with the original fireplace, one with the front bay window — plus a side porch and front-porch seating.³² MIKCexplore, visiting in spring 2025, called it “a cottage core coffee shop” and “quite a cozy, special place,” and praised a hot honey-lavender espresso from a rotating drink board.³

The daily case is built for a morning crowd: cinnamon rolls, kolaches, baked oatmeal, drop cookies, cake bites, oatmeal cream pies, muffins and coffee cake, with rotating dessert bars (s’mores, pumpkin, lemon), fruit tarts, cookie-cake slices and brownies appearing occasionally, and whole pans of brownies or coffee cake to go.⁴ The coffee bar’s named drinks include The Wild Flour Latte and Grandma’s Sugar Cookie Latte, plus hot and iced tea and fresh-squeezed lemonade in summer.⁴⁵ Pre-made buttercream cakes are sometimes on hand for a quick “Happy Birthday.”⁴

The custom side remains the backbone. Andersen’s decorated sugar cookies — “customizable for any events,” down to pharmaceutical reps taking them to doctors’ offices — and wedding cakes are made to order with two weeks’ notice; the Square storefront prices round cakes in chocolate, vanilla bean, strawberry, coconut or lemon-blueberry with five buttercreams.²⁶⁷ The house doubles as an event room for showers and work gatherings, and Andersen runs cake- and cookie-decorating classes; in 2026 the shop has added children’s story-time mornings and a Wednesday teacher discount.⁶⁵

Ownership and history

Megan Andersen grew up in the Kansas City area, the daughter of two teachers, and says she has been baking “since I was old enough to reach the counter and read recipes” — it began with a kids’ cookbook at six or seven, and by her teens she was cooking family dinners from recipes her mother left out.⁸² She baked through college and a career as an early-childhood educator, decorated cakes at McLain’s Bakery in Waldo as a side job, and then took a travel-agency job for regular hours when she and her husband started a family; her son Bennett was four in 2024.² Her first wedding cake was a friend’s in 2012; she made three or four more for friends before her own in 2016, and from 2015 to 2022 baked nights and weekends around a full-time job.⁸

In summer 2022 she left the travel agency, formed Wild Flour Baking Co. LLC and launched a cottage bakery from her home in Riverside, building a clientele largely through Kansas City moms’ groups on Facebook.²⁸ By 2024 it had outgrown the kitchen: “It is fun what I do, but I needed to make more money. So I had to abandon this dream and go back to a more corporate job, or take the leap of faith and expand into a bigger space.”² She “gasped” at a listing for the yellow house at 307 Main — commercial since the 1990s — and bought it in May 2024, then spent the rest of the year on foundation work, plumbing, new electric, HVAC and roof repairs and a commercial kitchen. “It is more than a leap to me, it is like a giant skydive.”²¹ To CanvasRebel that November: “It has taken a lot of guts, especially in this economy, to buy a property and invest even more money into a full renovation.”⁸

Kansas City Magazine and IN Kansas City both announced the shop in the fall of 2024 with an expected year-end opening; it opened in February 2025.²¹³ On Parkville: “You can go a couple of miles and feel like you are in the city, but this is a fun, relaxing, quaint little spot with a lot of walking traffic … I want my space to be a welcoming space for everyone to gather, to celebrate, to relax, whatever they want to do.”²

Links

• Website: https://www.wildflourkc.com/ · Bakery page: https://www.wildflourkc.com/bakery · Custom orders: https://www.wildflourkc.com/custom
• Square storefront (cakes, classes): https://www.wildflourmicrobakery.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildflourbakingkc/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildflourbakingcokc/

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-29 · Source: the bakery’s own website (item lists, no prices) and its Square storefront (cake pricing) · Confidence: Medium — counter prices for pastries and drinks are not published anywhere first-party.⁴⁷

Available every day

• Cinnamon Rolls · Kolaches · Baked Oatmeal · Drop Cookies · Cake Bites · Oatmeal Cream Pies · Muffins · Coffee Cake · Protein Bites

Occasionally

• Dessert Bars (s’mores, pumpkin, lemon) · Fruit Tarts · Cookie Cake Slices · Brownies · pans of brownies and whole coffee cakes to go · pre-made buttercream cakes

Coffee and drinks

• Espresso drinks including The Wild Flour Latte and Grandma’s Sugar Cookie Latte; hot and iced tea; soft drinks and cold beverages

Custom cakes (Square storefront)

• 6” round (6–8 people) $40 · 8” round (10–12) $60 · 10” round (16–18) $80
• Flavors: chocolate, vanilla bean, strawberry, coconut, lemon blueberry · Frostings: vanilla bean, cream cheese, peanut butter, chocolate or lemon buttercream
• Custom cookies, cupcakes, mini desserts and wedding cakes by inquiry; two weeks’ notice requested

Sources

Footnotes

1. “In Culinary News: Wild Flour Baking Co.,” IN Kansas City Magazine, March 2025 — Confirms: “120-year-old … butter-yellow house on Main Street in downtown Parkville,” operating as a business since the ’90s; purchase in May 2024; McLain’s Bakery in Waldo; 2022 departure from full-time job; 2024 renovation; planned menu, classes and events. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Joyce Smith, “A new bakery finds quaint Parkville home,” Kansas City Magazine, 2024-10-25 — Confirms: Andersen’s baking since age six or seven; early-childhood-education career; McLain’s Bakery cake decorating; travel agency; son Bennett (4); summer 2022 launch in her Riverside home; the “abandon this dream … or take the leap” quote; c. 1900 butter-yellow house with lilac trim, commercial since the 1990s, bought May 2024 at 307 Main St.; foundation, plumbing, electric, HVAC, roof; three seating rooms and side porch; planned daily and occasional items; decorated-cookie demand; classes and private events; tentative hours; “giant skydive” and Parkville quotes. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

3. Meredith Schneider, “Drinking Coffee in Kansas City: Wild Flour Baking Co,” MIKCexplore, 2025-06-24 — Confirms: opened in February (2025) in downtown Parkville; Wednesday–Sunday 7am–2pm; interior (pastry case, lit menu boards, couch and four-tops, stained glass, plants, porch seating); rotating coffee menu and hot honey-lavender espresso; “cottage core coffee shop”; 307 Main St. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Wild Flour Baking Co. — official website, “Our Bakery.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: “Our bakery is officially open!”; 307 Main St., Parkville, MO 64152; “the yellow and purple house off Main street”; hours Monday–Tuesday closed, Wednesday–Sunday 7am–2pm; everyday, occasional and to-go item lists; The Wild Flour Latte and Grandma’s Sugar Cookie Latte. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

5. Wild Flour Baking Co (@wildflourbakingkc), Instagram profile. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: bio “Bakery and Coffee House”; 307 Main St. Parkville, MO 64152; “Open Wed-Sun 7a-2p”; posts dated 2026-08-26 (20% teacher discount on Wednesdays), 2026-08-06 and 07-16 (story time), 2026-07-04 (7am–12pm, carry-out only, parade); kolaches and fresh-squeezed lemonade. ↩ ↩²

6. Wild Flour Baking Co. — official website, home page, “Our Bakery” and “Events” sections. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: served daily: kolaches, cookies, baked oatmeal, coffee cake, protein bites, cinnamon rolls, muffins, coffee, tea; event hosting with custom baked goods and finger foods. ↩ ↩²

7. Wild Flour Bakery — Square online storefront. Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: cake sizes and prices (6” $40, 8” $60, 10” $80), flavors and frostings; class sign-up form; “Secure checkout by Square.” ↩ ↩²

8. “Meet Megan Andersen,” CanvasRebel Magazine, 2024-11-18 — Confirms: “self-taught baker from the Kansas City area”; parents both teachers; first wedding cake 2012, own wedding cake 2016; baking around a full-time job 2015–2022; 2022 launch, LLC formation and business naming; clients via Kansas City moms’ Facebook groups; purchase of the downtown Parkville building and full renovation; website and social handles. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴