Robin will make you breakfast or lunch anytime and is happy to pack your meal to go. She makes gorgeous wedding cakes with floral wreaths and will happily take food or cake orders for any special occasion you may have. An added bonus, and one well known to Moab locals, is her “Day Old” basket. Chock full of an assortment of baked goods from the previous day, these $2 bags of goodies are bought up daily by grateful customers.

A gentleman from Denmark visited the Knave recently. He bought a Danish from Robin. He ate it and than bought another, then another, and finally another. After the fourth one, he informed Robin that he hadn’t tasted Danish that good since he was in Denmark. That quality can be found in all the items Robin makes and is a fine expression of her artistic nature.

Robin can best be described as a Renaissance Woman. Her creativity is boundless and is expressed in everything she does. An accomplished fiber artist, her hand-painted quilts featuring the arches and other landscapes found in the Moab area hang on the bakery walls. (A sampling of her work can also be seen at the Dan O’Laurie Museum, through April.) Her wearable art, beautiful jackets whose descriptive tags are written on paper she has made by hand, hang alongside the quilts. She has painted interesting designs on many of the tabletops in the bakery as well as the beautiful “wallpaper” on the women’s room wall. Beyond these abilities, Robin is an avid baseball fan and keeps herself up to date on all the latest in the sport. In fact, the men’s room at the bakery features interesting and historic baseball paraphernalia, definitely worth a visit!

In its fifth year in Moab, the Knave of Hearts has existed since 1976. The bakery started in Vermont, back in the days when Ben & Jerry were making their ice cream in a garage. (They were Knave customers). After several years in Vermont, the bakery moved to Inverness, California where it flourished for close to two decades. It is Moab’s good fortune to be the home of the bakery.