The Chocolate Peanut Butter was a big hit!
The White Chocolate Candy cane, great for a cold winter day with a cup of hot chocolate!
The Strawberry Cheescake, just as good as it sounds!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Pictures
Here are some pictures of our test fancy rolls. We look forward to trying new flavor combinations and getting our menu together.
The Chocolate Peanut Butter was a big hit!
The White Chocolate Candy cane, great for a cold winter day with a cup of hot chocolate!
The Strawberry Cheescake, just as good as it sounds!
The Chocolate Peanut Butter was a big hit!The White Chocolate Candy cane, great for a cold winter day with a cup of hot chocolate!
The Strawberry Cheescake, just as good as it sounds!
A Little Background
Welcome to Fancy Farm Bakery! We are in the beginning phases of starting our new business and we thought it would be a good idea to start a blog, to get the word out. My husband is working on the website and I'm sure it will be much better than this, but at least we are starting somewhere!
A few months ago I was talking to my husband's aunt, Evi Huffman, about baking. We both love to be in the kitchen and she is a fabulous baker, I have learned so much from her in the almost 8 years I've known her. She has been practically FAMOUS in the area for her delicious cinnamon rolls since before I ever came to Oregon. In fact the first visit I ever made to Oregon was almost 8 years ago, while in college to visit a longtime friend, who happened to be married to another of Evi's nephews. My friend kept telling me how amazing these cinnamon rolls were, so we spent a fun afternoon at Evi's beautiful farm riding horses and making cinnamon rolls, which tasted every bit as amazing as I had heard! Seriously, once you try one of these rolls you will never go back to that cinnamon roll place at the mall again!
Anyway, fast forward a few years and I too am living in Sherwood, Oregon (though not on a beautiful farm!) I am a stay-at-home mother, trying to earn extra money by decorating cakes and baking eclairs and other yummy treats. So I started talking to Evi, who had been fairly successful at selling her cinnamon rolls, but had not yet established it to the degree where she would like it. We thought it would be fun to team up and start a baking business together. Then came the next dilemma....what do we sell?
We tossed around a few ideas, then started into the what-if's. What if we didn't just make cinnamon rolls, but FANCY cinnamon rolls, meaning various varieties of the common cinnamon rolls? We got together one afternoon and started to experiment. We threw out a few ideas, then proceeded to make what we could with what was in the pantry that day. Of course not all of them have cinnamon in them, so we call them Fancy Rolls instead of Cinnamon Rolls.
The first one we made was a Chocolate Peanut-Butter, YUM! Then since it was the holidays we thought a candy cane one would be fun, so we made Peppermint-White Chocolate. Next on the list was a Cranberry-White Chocolate, made with home-made cranberry sauce (nothing from a can thank you!) Last of all we decided to experiment with some summer flavors, using some home-made strawberry jam...made from the beautiful Oregon strawberries available here in the Northwest. Using the strawberry jam we created a Strawberry-Cheesecake roll that was absolutely delicious. In fact, we were pleased to discover that they all turned out very well! We had several friends who were more than willing to be taste-testers.
That was the beginning of Fancy Farm Bakery! We are working on developing a tasty menu on a website that local Portlanders can order from. We hope to deliver our delicious treats all over the Portland area so that people can enjoy the variety that Fancy Farm Bakery has to offer!
A few months ago I was talking to my husband's aunt, Evi Huffman, about baking. We both love to be in the kitchen and she is a fabulous baker, I have learned so much from her in the almost 8 years I've known her. She has been practically FAMOUS in the area for her delicious cinnamon rolls since before I ever came to Oregon. In fact the first visit I ever made to Oregon was almost 8 years ago, while in college to visit a longtime friend, who happened to be married to another of Evi's nephews. My friend kept telling me how amazing these cinnamon rolls were, so we spent a fun afternoon at Evi's beautiful farm riding horses and making cinnamon rolls, which tasted every bit as amazing as I had heard! Seriously, once you try one of these rolls you will never go back to that cinnamon roll place at the mall again!
Anyway, fast forward a few years and I too am living in Sherwood, Oregon (though not on a beautiful farm!) I am a stay-at-home mother, trying to earn extra money by decorating cakes and baking eclairs and other yummy treats. So I started talking to Evi, who had been fairly successful at selling her cinnamon rolls, but had not yet established it to the degree where she would like it. We thought it would be fun to team up and start a baking business together. Then came the next dilemma....what do we sell?
We tossed around a few ideas, then started into the what-if's. What if we didn't just make cinnamon rolls, but FANCY cinnamon rolls, meaning various varieties of the common cinnamon rolls? We got together one afternoon and started to experiment. We threw out a few ideas, then proceeded to make what we could with what was in the pantry that day. Of course not all of them have cinnamon in them, so we call them Fancy Rolls instead of Cinnamon Rolls.
The first one we made was a Chocolate Peanut-Butter, YUM! Then since it was the holidays we thought a candy cane one would be fun, so we made Peppermint-White Chocolate. Next on the list was a Cranberry-White Chocolate, made with home-made cranberry sauce (nothing from a can thank you!) Last of all we decided to experiment with some summer flavors, using some home-made strawberry jam...made from the beautiful Oregon strawberries available here in the Northwest. Using the strawberry jam we created a Strawberry-Cheesecake roll that was absolutely delicious. In fact, we were pleased to discover that they all turned out very well! We had several friends who were more than willing to be taste-testers.
That was the beginning of Fancy Farm Bakery! We are working on developing a tasty menu on a website that local Portlanders can order from. We hope to deliver our delicious treats all over the Portland area so that people can enjoy the variety that Fancy Farm Bakery has to offer!
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