Scrumptious sweets and heavenly breads, baked with love in my kitchen and ready for your table!
I haven't baked bread in a loooooong time, but there's something about being quarantined with kids on a REALLY cold day that brings it to the surface. I tried Tasty's recipe (see recipe in comments) and like any bread that I've made in the Dutch oven I get amazing spring and perfect shape.
My latest cake, a chocolate Pikachu cake with marshmallow buttercream. I've been so busy working that I haven't done much baking lately, but I always enjoy making special cakes for my kids on their birthday. Happy 15th Max!
I'm selling King Cakes for Mardi Gras!🎉 Celebrate a real Gulf Coast treat thats a rich dough rolled with cinnamon and sugar, and filled with either blueberry filling, or cream cheese praline (pecan). The top is crowned with a light buttercream with colored sugars of Mardi Gras that are 💜Purple which represents Justice, 💚Green which represents Faith, and 💛Gold which represents Power.
regular cinnamon sugar filled--$20.00
blueberry filled--$23.00
and cream cheese praline (sugared pecan)filled--$25.00
Price includes a baby to hide in the cake and Mardi Gras beads.
*******order by Thursday February 4th!!!!!!
This was a lemon birthday cake that I made for my dad. Lemon yogurt sponge with fresh blueberries and lemon cream cheese icing. Happy 68th dad!!!!
I made a special sugar free cake for my parent's 40th anniversary. It looks a sight better than my first sugar free attempt 2 and a half years ago! I used a cake mix this time, and added heavy cream to the batter. The icing is a dark chocolate ganache with sugar free gourmet chips. The ganache cracked in the fridge while cooling, but I decorated it with red roses to stand for their Ruby anniversary.
Big birthday cake for my 14 year old and six year old. This was a bit of a mashup since one boy wanted trains and the other brother wanted LEGOs. My tried and true very moist dark chocolate cake. I also tried something new this time, with white chocolate ganache, and white chocolate LEGO shaped candies. It was fun and delicious to eat!
My husband's 40th birthday cake. It was a dark chocolate chili jalapeno cake. The cake has a cayenne pepper kick and the top is covered with a cool jalapeno chocolate ganache with buttercream accents. The flavor is deep and the chocolate pairs well with the cool green tasting jalapeno kick. It's not overwhelming. Even my kids liked it!
Assyrian spinach pies, and homemade falafel. The pie crust is a yeast bread with mahlab and flax seeds. The filling for the pies is an amazing mix of toasted walnuts, spinach, dried cherries, onions, feta, lemon juice, and olive oil. The pitas are filled with falafel, which is a mixture of chickpeas and spices, fried, and tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, purple onions, and yogurt sauce. A completely vegetarian meal with lots of healthy grains!!!! 🍅🥒🍒🥬
Wowee!!! Leftover tsoureki made THE BEST french toast!!!! Creamy, chewy, with hint of cherry/almond flavor from the mahlab.
Had some fun last weekend making this Bunnycorn cake with my daughter. It's a moist carrot cake on the inside flavored with fresh ginger, and frosted with a smooth cream cheese icing. My daughter colored and made the ears and horn, and picked out the colors. It was so yummy!!!!
I love making Easter sweet breads from other countries! This year I decided to try a Greek tsoureki ring. Like the Italian Easter ring, this bread has hard boiled eggs cooked into it. I ordered the integral ingredient, mahlab, from a Turkish grocery in Fort Worth. Mahlab is a special ground cherry pit from a plant that only grows in Greece. The flavor is somewhat cherry and almond. So incredibly delicious! When it came out of the oven, I brushed on a honey glaze.
The dark red eggs symbolize Christ's sacrifice. The three stranded braid represents the trinity, and the rising of the loaf represents his resurrection. I love this so much! The symbolism of the bread is beautiful and the flavor is so unusual. Now that I have mahlab, I will be looking forward to more Greek and Turkish recipies.
A friend of mine turned me onto this heritage recipe for a very distinctive loaf that's sturdy, dense, and cheesy flavored due to the two fermented starters. It tastes great as toast with a bold jam, like marmalade!
Would anyone be interested in short baking videos about what you can make with your family during quarantine?
Anyone else stress baking? Nothing calms my nerves like getting my hands in some dough and eating the finished product! Today my minions helped me. I let them work the butter into tiny chunks into the flour, mix lightly, and mold into circular loaves. Then I let them "paint" the dough with buttermilk and sprinkle with oats. They really loved the part where we cut a cross into the dough to "let the fairies out". Check out the recipe below and enjoy being Irish!
https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/irish-soda-bread/
When one of your dearest friends says that they have never had a homemade cake for their birthday....well sweetheart, here ya go! My go to moist easier than a cake mix chocolate cake, with whipped chocolate ganache filling and a dark chocolate French buttercream frosting.
Happy Mardi Gras y'all!!!!! Yesterday I made my yearly king cake. For those of you who don't know what it is, a king cake is a sweet bread with cinnamon and a filling (this one is cream cheese) with royal icing in the Mardi Gras colors and sparkling sugar. As with the religious origins of Mardi Gras, the king cake represents the unity of Faith's, and is named after the three kings that searched for baby Jesus. The three colors are also symbolic of justice (purple), faith (green), and power (gold). The plastic baby represents baby Jesus and is hidden in the cake. Whoever gets the piece with the baby gets good luck and has to provide the king cake next year. My kids are all hoping to be the lucky ones! This year has been crazy with my parents moving here, but next year I will be selling these bad boys with different fillings.
I love trying cultural holiday breads! We came home from Christmas with lots of chopped pecans, so this special Rosca de Reyes (Three King's Bread) from Mexico seemed to hit the spot. Today is the day of Epiphany, when children in Mexico leave their shoes outside and receive presents from the three wise men. This is a sweet bread, very similar to my favorite King cake from Mardi Gras. The circular bread is supposed to represent a crown, with dried fruits and nuts inside. This was soft and rich, with a slight orange flavor and delightful pecan, craisin, and golden raisin filling.
Anyone else piein' it up? I'm using my husband's recipe for pecan pie that has double the nuts and a crazy amount of butter. Calories don't count on Thanksgiving, right?
Sometimes you just need random shaped and egg yolk painted sugar cookies. I let the kids raid my cookie cutters, and we used Pioneer Woman's sugar cookie recipe (recipe in comments). You actually tint egg yolks colors, and paint them on the raw dough before baking them. The colors are vibrant, and slightly citrus flavored dough keeps it's shape nicely. Finish with some royal icing for some "pow"!
I used some fresh pumpkin that I roasted in the oven to try out a new recipe for pumpkin pie with whole wheat crust. The crust's nuttiness from the white wheat flour perfectly complements the spicy pumpkin filling. I'm here to tell you that fresh roasted and mashed pumpkin is so buttery and much more flavorful than the canned version! I always take our leftover 🎃 and blend their roasted flesh into mashed pumpkin that I use for pie, pumpkin bread, and pancakes.
I haven't been posting very much lately, but I decided to do a fall spin on my amazing cinnamon rolls and added pumpkin puree to the dough. It's a lovely light orange color and smells delicious! Not only does it add moistness to the texture, it's full of vitamin C and has more fiber from the vegetables. In our house, I sneak pumpkins and squash into my mac and cheese, and also throw them in pancakes. I'll let you know how they turn out!
Just finished my custom Dallas Cowboys cake! Vanilla cake, French buttercream, with reverse printing on the cake. Contact me for cake estimates! My pricing starts at $4.00 per serving. Check out the metallic finish on the sides!
Line up for the market tomorrow. I have to sell my delicious blueberry bread pudding from my house in Acton because it needs to be refrigerated. I have 5 square pans of bread pudding for $10.00 each. Come get them before they're gone!
Making mini peach pies with my babies. Yayyyy for extra pie crust scraps!!!! My 8 year old daughter is in 💜 with lattice work now.
So. After a full on year of perfect bread, the baking universe has decided to mess with me. Making my soaked wheat honey oat bread is an hours long process of soaking the wheat flour to unlock its helpful nutrients and increase its softness and sweet flavor. After the first proof (rise) I put the dough into the prepared pans and proofed them a second time in the oven. Literally one step away from completion (baking) I almost dropped the baking sheet and they all deflated instantly. Waaaa waaaaa....after reshaping and rising again, the loaves turned out flat and crispy, the result of over proofing. Well, I've decided to make lemonade out of my dad gum lemons (or in this case bread pudding). The results will be very much like the picture, only more nutritious with whole wheat bread instead of leftover biscuits. Stay tuned for pricing. And I can only sell them out of my home because cottage food laws prevent me from selling refrigerated items at the farmers market.
Baking baking baking!!!! I'm making a larger quantity of garlic cheddar, and sweet potato biscuits for the farmers market because they've been selling out quickly!!!! These dudes make AMAZING egg sandwiches! Just sayin'.
Here's tomorrow's line up! I had a learning moment with the chai bars--my white chocolate seized up, so I decided to top them with cinnamon sugar instead. They are chewy, spicy, and delicious!
Tomorrow's market is going to be awesome!!!
You are NOT gonna want to miss this Saturday’s market! We are packed with some of the best vendors! We’re going to have plenty of fresh produce including WATERMELONS and TOMATOES! We’re even going to have live bees for you to check out while you grab a jar of honey! Come visit us this Saturday at the Acton Tabernacle 8-12!
Grider Farm
Broodwinkel Bakery
Owl Tree Farm
Good 2 Bee Natural
Tin Top Farm
BAKED Bread & Pastry Co.
Elisabeth Soaps
Violet Flamingo Home Bakery
Talley Wags & More
Simply Soap Handcrafted
First Earth Farm
F&H Sweets and Things
Luckie Heart Mixed Media Studio
Hannah Elkins
Misty’s Handmades
Oh my goodness!!!!! I wish that y'all could smell how good my new recipe smells baking!!!!! It smells like spicy gingerbread! These White Wheat Vanilla Chai bars are great for you! They are packed full of whole grain goodness and delicious spices--cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, white pepper, and orange zest. They are cooling right now, and then will be drizzled with white chocolate. Come get some at the farmer's market tomorrow.
Stay tuned for info on my next baking class-- "Sourdough Baking on the Trail: Pioneer and Cowboy Biscuits"
Mama has gotten smart! I spent the afternoon making my sweet potato and garlic cheddar biscuits and freezing them to bake 6:00am Saturday. Manditory taste testing proved that they taste ahhhhmazing!!!! Are you ready for the market??? I AM!!!
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY FOLKS!
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Here's my labor of love for my son's 5th birthday cake! LEGO Flash, in French Buttercream with dark chocolate cake. He wanted LEGO Batman for a year, but at the last minute changed to the Flash. My little sweetheart was not dissapointed. He was running around the house at top speed, "Look Mom! I'm like my cake!!!".
I can make birthday and special cakes on commission. Contact me for prices.
Even though I've taught dozens of bread lessons, and have kneaded bread at home with my own kids for years, I learned a new technique for kneading today 😂. My 13 year old son with special needs (the one in the blue shirt) showed me the "ninja technique", which involves lots of whipping it on the table (with sound effects) and karate chopping. I guess that the weight of the bread being slapped on the table stretched it out sufficiently, because his bread was the most activated out of the bunch. The "gluten window" was achieved folks!!!
I had such a complete blast teaching my breadmaking workshop at the Acton Local Market today! We learned how yeast works, why gluten development is important, how to knead by hand, how to read recipes, food safety in the kitchen, and why we use the ingredients that we do in bread and what their scientific properties are. I've decided to offer a kids breadmaking workshop at each market. Stay tuned for info on the next one, which will take place in three weeks.
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76049
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A friend of mine turned me onto this heritage recipe for a very distinctive loaf that's sturdy, dense, and cheesy flavored due to the two fermented starters. It tastes great as toast with a bold jam, like marmalade!
Even though I've taught dozens of bread lessons, and have kneaded bread at home with my own kids for years, I learned a new technique for kneading today 😂. My 13 year old son with special needs (the one in the blue shirt) showed me the "ninja technique", which involves lots of whipping it on the table (with sound effects) and karate chopping. I guess that the weight of the bread being slapped on the table stretched it out sufficiently, because his bread was the most activated out of the bunch. The "gluten window" was achieved folks!!!
How could I let myself have all the fun? My little assistant gets creative!!!! No worries, I had him wash his hands thoroughly before construction on Mount Cinnamon began 😂.
Public service announcement from me this morning! I'm officially recommending hand mixing cinnamon and brown sugar as therapy!!!!
Now accepting orders for smooth, decadent cheesecakes! Give your Honey some sweetness for Valentine's Day! Thin Mint cheesecake 9"- $35.00 Original cheesecake 9"- $30.00 LAST DAY TO ORDER FEB 11TH!!!! PICKUP DAY FEB 13TH/14th!!!! Eeny meeny miney mo......... Over the top minty chocolaty goodness, or plain, smooth, simplicity. Let me just say that according to my hubby, who is a cheesecake aficionado, but not a huge fan of mint and chocolate.....(direct quotes) "Wooooooah" "this tastes just like a thin mint!" and "I had no idea that I would like it so much!" (after four pieces). Real packs of Girl Scout thin mints are crushed for the crust, studded within the slightly minty, slightly tangy filling, and gracing the top along with whipped cream and chocolate ganache. If simple is your thing, then the original won't disappoint either. Oreo crust, or graham cracker crust available upon request. Also decorated with whipping cream and ganache.
Check out the flames on this bad boy!
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