Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
In honor of National Peaches and Cream Day, here is a recipe for Peach Cream Pie. Sour Cream Peach Pie Recipe by Renee Shelton Adjust the spice mixture to suit your own tastes. Yield: 1 9-inch pie Ingredients 1 1/4 cups plain graham cracker crumbs …read more
My husband wants a 3-D printer, so I’ve been scouting the Internet to learn all about it. These machines are amazing, not that we’ll get one tomorrow or anything. A 3-D printer essentially prints out in three dimensional form of whatever you tell it to print. I’ve …read more
I love watching cake competitions, and when one supports a local charity, it is all that much fun to watch. This year’s Icing on the Cake Competition theme is ‘greeting cards.’ This is a charity-based competion supporting Quota International of Shreveport. All levels are encouraged to participate …read more
This auction is online only and is listing 7 different Electro Freeze machines and two Bunn coffee brewers with airpot. MSRP for freeze machines range from $1,420 to $13,710. Preview: Appt only, call to schedule; Virginia Commercial Services: 703 Howmet Dr. Suite H, Hampton, VA …read more
In San Diego the first part of May with nothing to do? The Maritime Museum of San Diego is partnering up with Mars Chocolate North America to hold their 2nd annual Chocolate Festival in May featuring 3 days of chocolate fun, for adults and for kids. Friday …read more
Biscuits have three general terms in the bakeshop: Cut out or dropped quick breads, baked light or soft with a golden brown crust, generally leavened with baking baking powder, baking soda, sometimes a little yeast, or just by the introduction of air such as beaten …read more
Interesting read from Confectionery News about compound chocolate which may bring sad news for chocophiles. According to the Buhuler Group, the compound chocolate market will grow at a faster rate than ‘real’ chocolate the next several years and the company is working on compound chocolate processing machinery to …read more
Thin Mint Brownies – Recipe Below. National Girl Scout Cookie Day. Image courtesy Girl Scouts of Orange County. Today is the day – February 8th is National Girl Scout Cookie Day. And I know that makes you smile. 🙂 I have two girl scouts and …read more
Eleven chocolate companies have been fined $82 million US dollars in Germany over ‘cartel price fixing’. Kraft, Nestle, Mars, and Ritter are among the companies involved. This is reminiscent of the news last December of Hershey, Mars, and Nestle facing price fixing here in the …read more
With all the talk of the Hostess company in bankruptcy, I wanted to know what the term ‘stalking horse’ meant to the financial markets as in recent news from Food Business News, a stalking horse bidder was named for the Hostess company. The plain definition …read more