December 2010
2 posts
Let's Get Ready to Rum Baaaall!
Christmas Season 2010 has been a strange one for us…HST and the continuing trend towards purchasing baked goods in places that use machines, chemicals and high efficiency systems have made it difficult to know what to expect. Some items are lingering while we cannot keep up with others. (We sold out of Fruit Cake today - two days early)!
Rum Balls, as seen below, are hot this year and...
Some Fun
Valerie and many staff enjoy decorating Gingerbread Cookies.
I enjoy hand-forming Stollen: before applying hand-formed pieces of marzipan, we butter the flattened dough. Then we fold, seal and bake the loaves. While still hot, we brush them with hot butter (again) and cool them. When they are room temperature we dust each one, top and bottom, with icing sugar.
Wrapped, with last year’s...