11/10/19 We Love Quiche

11/10/19 We Love Quiche

Quiche for Dinner tonight!  This quiche sported broccoli, grape tomatoes, and ham. I used my new deep dish metal pie pan. Reading a King Arthur Flour article about pie baking and how to have a browner crust, a metal pan is suggested. My bottom crust was not much browner than glass.

11/18/19 Turner Street Market Open House and Tasting for Thanksgiving Offerings.

11/18/19 Turner Street Market Open House and Tasting for Thanksgiving Offerings.

Turner Street Market held an Open House on 11/18.We all worked together to prepare and present sides and desserts for order for Thanksgiving Dinner. I prepared Apple Crisp Cheesecake and Down East Lemon Pie. Also on this same day,  I baked 5 Pecan Pies for the Beaufort Historical Association Thanksgiving Feast.

We had no idea how many may come to the Open House, but the house was packed!! A wine tasting also helped brighten the assembled group!!

Pecan Pies Oven Ready

Key Lime Pies Oven Ready

Baked Pecan Pies

Bourbon, Cherry, Apple Pies

11/14/19 Boob Bombes

11/14/19 Boob Bombes

Well, it is time for me to have my Thursday night bridge group over and to show off some of my baking skills. Fall and Winter is usually a time to have heavy desserts such as Apple Cake, Carrot Cake, or Pumpkin anything. I have been hankering for Upside Down Pineapple Cake and decided to make individual servings using silicone bombe molds. The cakes turned out so well and I plated them and served with whipped cream.

One attendee commented the cakes looked just liked boobs. What do you think??

The Infamous Boob Bombe

11/13/19 Carrot Cake and Key Lime Pound Cake Iced and Garnished

Carrot Cake baked in loaves and cupcakes if a favorite of our customers. With lots of carrots, coconut, and pineapple, this Carrot Cake version is delicious and moist.

The Key Lime Pound Cakes were baked on 11/12 and frozen when cooled. The frozen cakes are iced Lime Cream Cheese Frosting.and garnished with lime zest. The zested limes are then used to make Limeades.

Carrot Cupcakes rdy to bake

Key Lime Pound Cake Iced and Garnished with Fresh Lime Zest

Beautiful Baked Product for market

11/12/19 Brownies and Key Lime Pound Cake

11/12/19 Brownies and Key Lime Pound Cake
Today, I am restocking Brownies and Key Lime Pound Cake for the freezer. Our stock is frequently baked in bucked and thawed as needed.

Our Brownies contain the double chocolate combination of cocoa powder and chocolate chips. Yummy!  Using 2 half sheets pans rather than one full helps to preventing over browning on the edges and shortens baking time. Extending the parchment paper above the edge aids in depanning for slicing. Slicing baked products on sheets can damage pans. A better solution would be to depan and cut on a cutting board. The half sheet size is a better fit on a cutting board.

Key Lime anything is a favorite of our Beaufort Farmer's Market customers. We being Key Lime Pound Cake to each Farmer's Market. We use Nellie and Joe's Key Lime juice in our cakes. We like to bake as much as possible from scratch. But, as most bakers know, juicing key limes is a tiresome task. Very little juice comes out of a lime.

Scaled Ingredients for Brownies

Brownie Batter Ready to Pan

Key Lime Pound Cake Batter

Panning Batter

Batter Evenly Divided

11/11/19 Banana Pudding Cookies & Sunshine Bars

11/11/19 Banana Pudding Cookies & Sunshine Bars
In the Turner Street Market today I am preparing Banana Pudding Cookies for the freezer and baking Sunshine Bars.

Banana Pudding Cookies is an unusual combination of cookie ingredients with banana pudding mix and vanilla wafers added. A cookie within a cookie! To guarantee cookie freshness for the consumer, the dough is formed in a ball shape and frozen. Then, we bake off as needed. Shaping cookie dough in a ball shape and freezing is a great way for the cookie to have an even plump shape.

A variation of Lemon Bars is the Turner Street Market Sunshine Bars. Paying homage to the Sunshine State, 3 types of citrus fruits are zested for our version of the beloved bar.

Shaping Cookie Balls from Dough

Ready to Freeze

Crust for Sunshine Bars

Crust Baked

Oranges, Limes. and Lemons for Zesting

Sunshine Bars Baked

11/8/19 Farmer's Market Prep at The Turner Street Market

11/8/19 Farmer's Market Prep at The Turner Street Market

A Marathon 6 hour baking day getting ready for the Farmer's Market:
Video of Products https://animoto.com/play/vCtOG8u8Y6meTCz3TepXZw

Stock Up Lemon Glaze

Stock up Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

Dark Chocolate Orange Cookies

Lemon Bars

Moravian Sugar Cake

Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

11/3/19 Turner Street Market Biscuits

11/13/19 Turner Street Market Biscuits

Turner Street Market is located in downtown Beaufort. Open 7 days a week, we offer Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. For my Work Based Learning experience, I have been baking here since September.

Today I tackled their signature biscuit with wonderful results. There biscuit version is square, quite big, and rustic in appearance.

Dough is formed into a square and cut into 16 pieces

Squares on the sheet pan

Biscuits right out of the oven

Biscuit made into a Breakfast Sandwich

7/22/19 Pull Apart Bread

Convenience baking, using freezer dough. It is last minute again and I purchased frozen rolls and followed the recipe on the bag to produce this fabulous Pull Apart Bread or Monkey Bread for my Prayer Breakfast group!

 

7/15/19 Beignet

My first attempt at Beignets turned out fairly well. The size of each is inconsistent and I will try again to improve. Messy to eat but worth it!!

7/14/19 Garden Pollinators

We have been having problems with a lack of pollinators in our backyard garden. This year we planted flowers at attack bees and butterflies. Zinnias have been our fave flower and we have had fresh flowers in the house all summer.

7/13/19 Squash and Tomato Pie

Using our vegetables again, another Squash and Tomato Pie!

7/9/19 Baguettes

Out of Baguette making practice! So, today I will get my skills up to par!!
Bakers Gonna Bake!!

7/8/19 Sticky Buns

Using a recipe from King Arthur Flour, I prepared Sticky Buns for my Prayer Breakfast group.

6/27/19 Tomato Quiche

Tomato Quiche using tomatoes from our garden! Threw in a few squash too!

6/1719 Donut Holes

Using a recipe from The Biltmore Stable Cafe, I prepared donut holes for the Prayer Breakfast group. So easy, the dough is prepared and cut into small circles. The cut dough can be refrigerated for several days. The cut dough was fried in 350 degree oil, then drained, and glazed.

6/3/19 Squash Pie

My friend Abi brought me some squash and some were used to make a pie.