Most pastries are like Post-it notes: fun to peel apart in layers and sticky enough to adhere to coworkers' foreheads. Sample this versatile treat with today's Groupon: for $6, you get $12 worth of cookies, brownies, cupcakes, and more at Bent Fork Bakery in Highwood.

As a small-batch, all-butter bakery, the Bent Fork whips up sweet tooth-tickling confections by relying on recipes made from scratch and measurement-savvy chefs. The menu entices cookie mongers with such sugary circles as Peanut Buttah-White Chocolate Toffee ($1.25) and Oatmeal Cranberry Pistachio White Chocolate ($1.25). Intense Brownies ($1.50) and PBJ Bars ($1.50) satisfy square barons, while the Fresh Fruit Crostata (large $12, mini $3.50) packs apples, caramel apples, and seasonal berries into a buttery crust case. Rotating flavors of buttercream cupcakes charm minds and mouths through a variety of flavors—classic chocolate and vanilla, Banana Sundae, S’mores, and Strawberry Fields—and can be prepped as bite-size minis ($1 each, minimum of six) or regulation-size regulars ($1.75–$2).To make any hour omelette hour, Bent Fork serves an all-day breakfast menu of coffee cakes, cinnamon rolls, and jumbo muffins.

Reviews

Striped Pot featured Bent Fork Bakery. Thirteen Yelpers give the bakery an average rating of 4.5 stars, and more than 660 Facebookers are fans.

• You haven't lived until you've tried The Bent Fork. Seriously. If you haven't then you're just coasting through life thinking you're happy but you've never really experienced true happiness. – Ross C., Yelp, 01/20/11
• Located on the main drag of north suburban Highwood, a town known for its restaurants, Bent Fork fills the need for dessert and taste treats. – Jodie Jacobs, Striped Pot