Make 'n' Bake is a bakery at 694 Tay Street in Hawthorndale, Invercargill, located in the Ascot Shopping Centre, and holds a 4.3 rating from 63 Google reviews. A good neighbourhood bakery lives and dies by timing: the best loaves, pies and slices tend to be gone well before closing, so it pays to ask when the day's batches come out of the oven and to plan a visit around them. The other tell is smell — bread and pastry baked on the premises announces itself from the doorway, while a cabinet of uniform, factory-neat offerings suggests the opposite. Regulars usually learn the rhythm of the place: which lines sell first, which days the favourite items appear. For Hawthorndale shoppers, it makes an easy stop on Tay Street while running errands at Ascot.