Been tied up with painting our front stairs stair well. What was boring white is now being painted as faux brick on two walls and a golden gradient down the two side walls.
So haven't had a lot of time for baking the past couple weeks. I did do a batch of sourdough English muffins for us and a Cinnamon Snowflake bread for the roofers who arrived today to install our metal roof.
A couple of pies I made to cut up to stock the cooler we keep on the porch for delivery peeps during the holiday season.
A Spiced Cherry Pie and a Harvest Home Apple Pie. Since these were freebies made to be cut up into individual portions, I didn't get fancy with the crust, simple "rope" edges and basic top crust on the cherry, no lattice.
And yes, I did keep a couple slices back of each for us!
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After delivering the star bread yesterday, I knocked us out a half batch of Mexican Wedding Cookies, have also seen them called Russian Tea Cakes, or Snowballs.
Usually made with finely diced pecans but I used hickory nuts our neighbor let me gather from their shagbark hickory tree. So I shelled enough to make a cup and used them in these.
Working on some sourdough now and I think I might make us some of one of my other fave Holiday cookies tomorrow! Stay tuned!
Working on my first cinnamon snowflake (star) bread of the season. The dough will cold proof overnight in the fridge before being shaped and baked tomorrow morning.
It's basically an ostentatious cinnamon roll and makes for a yummy breakfast treat, or lunch treat, or dinner treat.... who am I kiddin? Its basically good anytime ๐
Also Happy #Krampusnacht all. Hope you haven't been naughty!
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Taking a break the next couple days as I had several pies to make and deliver yesterday. As busy as yesterday was, it wasn't anywhere close to my busiest day ever which was several years ago when I lived in another state and was selling my baked goods at a couple farmer's markets every week. That year I did 26 pies plus my inventory of breads and muffins. It was cray cray!
Today I leave you with examples of some of the pies I delivered yesterday.
Working on a batch of potato rolls today. These are a fave in our house for special holiday occasions. They're great as a simple side dish roll or for mini sammy's later with leftovers!
I also can do them in a wreath shape but today's batch is just going to be the regular 5x3 rectangle shape of 15 rolls.
Huzzah! Finally had a batch of Pan de Muerto come out looking as good as they taste. These aren't sugared yet as I've found it's best to sugar them right before you're gonna eat them otherwise the butter you use to get the sugar to stick will make them get soggy if they are stored like that.
Definitely by next Dia de Muertos, I'll be practiced enough at these to be able to put them on the bakery website for ordering.
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Taking a break from experimentation as I have an order for sourdough bagels and English muffins to bake and deliver tomorrow.
All my sourdough based items start off the same, by waking up my starter, which I did this morning. Meet Samantha, my 8 year old sourdough starter. She lives in and out of the fridge depending on how busy I am with making sourdough.
Will be making the doughs tonight for overnight fermentation and bake tomorrow.
We have a work crew coming in to replace the culvert pipe in front of our house which is collapsing and a hole is opening up in our driveway. Work will be done in the next couple days.
This means I have captive taste testers! So I made a batch of my orange cranberry muffins but topped w pecans. Had one myself, is good but I'm not sure if pecans or sliced almonds might go with the orange/cran better. Will try that next!
Did a practice run at Pan de Muerto today. Glad I did too cause there was stuff I had forgotten. I def had my dough a little too wet, the "bones" didn't hold their shape very well and I needed the practice on where to place the indentations on the cross pieces. Its been a while since I made these.
One of them had a mishap with the center ball.
They still taste delicious, even if my shaping was a bit off! ๐
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