WHERE DID YOU GO?

I'm still here! Working like a crazy person!

Adding some new things to the menu, taking some that I didn't feel work well.

**Farmer's Markets in June**

Currently looking at one on Friday in Dartmouth, MA and one in North Easton, MA on Saturday. Will be fun to meet people in person! Many new items for the summer include a whole line of tea cakes, inspired by my wheat infested melt down in Boston. With an English friend's (actually a couple of them!) guidance, I am sure we will be 'spot on'. Tally Ho!

Easter is quickly approaching. I didn't have time to update the website, but the macaroons are a big hit. If you happen to read this and need some for Passover, give me a call at 508-697-1691. The name is Karin and I can get them to you with 48 hour notice. Why so long? I actually 'sweeten' my own coconut. Do you know the coconut in the store contains glycol? Yes, so I would like to make you a macaroon that your friends will envy. And they are gluten free! But anyone can eat them. And no one will notice.

So yes, I am still here (where would I go?) and scheming for the upcoming summer. I also have a 'commuter cookie' in the works: an all in one cookie that will fuel up you bike commutes (yes, I am one too!) as well as car commuters. Any suggestions for what should go into it? Let me know with a comment!

Happy Passover and Happy Easter!!!! Karin

Happy New Year!

Wow. The holidays are over. Now onto the New Year. What is in store for the New Year?

Well, for the Snowflake, I can tell you there are some exciting things coming in 2012. What are they?

- Snowflake Bakery products coming to a store/coffee shop near you! We are waiting for our permit to be finalized to wholesale to stores as well as other fine eating eatin' and drinkin' (coffee) establishments!

- New Gluten Free items on the horizon. These include a very special Valentine's Day baked good and a gluten free Cinnamon Roll that doesn't look like a hockey puck.

- Cupcakes galore! We listened! More cupcake offerings will be added!

- Seasonal fruit baked goods- Local farmers take note: we are looking to partner with local egg, milk and produce suppliers. Email us at info@snowflakebakery.com if you have what we want! Very interested in finding a local cranberry grower that is small as well as a supplier of berries of all kinds and orchard fruit (peaches and apples).

- A gluten free sports bar. As a part of the biking community, feeding hungry athletes is a priority. Ever had a good sports bar? Neither have I. I usually force them down on those long rides. Hopefully by the time race season (early May) comes about, we will be feeding ya'll tasty bars of gluten free goodness...

Have you checked out our online store? This is where you can place and purchase a pick up or delivery order. Delivery is free on orders $30 and over. No over $30? It's a $6 delivery charge.

Here's lookin at you 2012~! Karin

A new website. A new cart. I need a vacation.

I'm sure you have noticed the new website. It's going through a bit of a change...

The cart is almost ready to roll. That will make ordering easier!

Free delivery is still offered for orders over $30 in Bristol and Plymouth Counties. For those of you out of that area, you can drop by to pick them up or I can Priority Mail them to you. Why use mail? Well, it's actually cheaper and more environmentally friendly than me getting in my car or hiring a courier to drive them to you. And when they are mailed from close by, you'll get them in a day or two at most. How can it be environmentally friendly? Well, everyone gets mail, right? So why not have them deliver your Snowflake goods with your mail?

What's been baking? Well, we are in the home stretch on developing a chocolate biscotti. The official taste tester team (say that three times) gave it a sort of thumbs up. A couple of tweaks, another go round, and you should see them soon! They are topped with white chocolate and peppermint, and begged to be eaten with hot chocolate!

It looks like there might be a couple of flakes coming our way soon! Keep your eye to the sky!

Cranberry Upside Down Cake and Wooly Bears...

My massage therapist recommended that I look up cranberry upside down cake. He saw something on the cooking channel and said it looked awesome. I looked and found a few recipes, relatively the same, so I took the best from each and then applied my gluten free magic. The results were fantastic. The bakery will be carrying 6 inch and 9 inch cakes as well as small individual cakes (about the size of a jumbo muffin). Look for them soon on the website...but without further delay, the introduction:

And as a reminder, wooly bears are still rolling around the countryside (sometimes, they literally roll around in a ball) so be careful and try to not hit them as they are sprinting across the road. IF you see them, look at how fast they are trying to cross! I haven't seen too many orange and black ones, but next to turkeys, football and raking leaves, they are one of my nostalgic signs of fall....

Battle of Los Angeles, Pic Line and Pad Thai...

Most people that know me realize I ride alot of different bikes. Pink bikes, road bikes, fast bikes, grocery bikes....




The Great Fall of 2010

 




Grocery Bike roll with 'kins in the baskets



Bike Room prior to renovation

And most people know I lived in California for a long time. South and North. But what you probably didn't know, is that I hardly watch movies...and when I do, I keep wondering about the dumbest details.

Last night, I went to see my good cycling buddy Cyclocross Dave. He got Lyme and then pericarditis. And now he has a Pic line. But he still has a sense of humor.



Cyclocross Dave upright



So I brought the cupcakes, which I know he will feast on while he is laid up. And we ate Chinese food. And watched a movie that would make anyone panic. Battle Los Angeles.

So there are a couple of spoilers here, so if you are waiting for this movie to show up in your mailbox from Netflix, you might want to roll on by. But here it is. The west coast thinks it's a meteor shower but they are getting invaded by aliens. And they are weird aliens. They look like the skeleton guy from the Nightmare Before Christmas meets Predator.

 So they battle it out, nothing left of LA. Or anywhere else. Maybe Iowa, they didn't say anything about Iowa. And they are here for our water. So of course we make out well in the end, but there are a couple of things that make me wonder:

1) The staff sgt gave a letter to a woman to deliver to someone's wife. Did she ever get it there?
2) If the aliens were going after radio transmission, why were they still using radios?
3) Why do people run towards natural disasters in movies and not away. Who would go to see meteors hit the ocean and there might be the chance of a tsunami?
4) These guys never ate or drank water the whole time they were battling it out in LA. How do they manage that. And they never slept....
5) Where did they get all those bullets from???

So now you can see...why I don't watch alot of action movies...  :)

On another note, cupcakes were delivered and enjoyed by all. Next up, pie crust and maybe a pie or two.

Hello, Cupcake!

So the infamous Cliff kept asking me where are the cupcakes. And I should work on them. Right on it Cliff.

Actually, I have been working on them for a while, but never satisfied with the results. Until now.

Meet the cupcakes! Excuse the frosting. A little sloppy but all good. I will let you in my secret. I do not use 'gluten free' cook books. Why? I find them...inaccurate. I'm not sure if it's that they aren't well tested, or maybe it's my measuring cups, but they never seem to work out. So instead, I have done enough work to find the right ratio of gluten free flours, starches and liquids. And then I hit old cookbooks, like the binder style Betty Crocker one. The same book my mom would use, I can pretty much alter most recipes now. It takes alot of work, countless horrible batches but the effort is well worth it.

Too bad Cliff isn't around...more for me! And for my friend Cyclecross Dave, who is laid up with pericarditis as a gift from the Lyme Disease gods. Finally out of the hospital...hopefully along with very bad action movies and greasy Chinese food, he'll recover fast enough to maybe do one more cyclecross race.

Carmel, Peanuts, Macademia Nuts...oh my!

I have some passionate 'taste testers'. One by the name of Cliff. Cliff suggested I make chocolate chip cookie with macadamia nuts. I said no. At first. He kept asking (along with cranberry oatmeal) and so I caved in. Not a bad relinquishment of cookie power, it's a win-win:

His second request is one modeled after my favorite candy bar. Snickers. So I went to work, and it's pretty close, except the carmels are not gluten free, so I need to find another carmel supplier, and maybe use peanut butter without the nuts...