Saturday, March 29, 2008

Baked From Scratch

Posted by samele at 1:08 PM 0 comments
There is a new logo to the right--------> yea, over there! This logo is because I am proud to be a scratch baker. I like costco cakes, and sometimes cakes from Safeway and Walmart, but if asked my preference I will stand on the mountain top with my arms stretched wide and say SCRATCH!!!! oh and yes, I can tell a scratch cake from a cake that is made from a mix.. As a matter of fact, my 12 year old can as well. Thats doesn't mean I don't like them, but chances are I may not eat too much of one.

This preference started WAYYYYYY before culinary school. It started in the kitchen at 3555 Sacramento Street in San Francisco, in about 1988! Unfortunately, being in culinary school has made it worse. I want to try EVERYTHING from scratch. I like to look at fresh herbs, I make caramel sauce from scratch.. why buy it? I no longer make all purpose flour. I use bread and cake flour.. If I want AP flour, I MAKE IT! I have fun at it too. Being a scratch baker means that a few rules apply when I am baking a cake for someone:

1. My pastries cost more than costco, safeway, walmart, albertsons and pretty much any other grocery store you can think of, this means that if you want a price comparable to the aforementioned places, ya might want to go there.

2. If I am asked for a discount, I will probably NOT give you one. My items are made fresh to order, and can sometimes take an obscene amount of time. Ask my husband, he's the one that gets me diet cokes and makes sure I have enough coffee to keep me up. As a matter of fact, I think I worked on my sisters cake (the VS one below) for about a week (the last part was the cake of course).

With that said, I REALLLLLLLLY appreciate everyone who has supported me by ordering, tasting promoting and everything in between!

here's a batch of SCRATCH biscuits for ya!
Biscuits, Biscuits

Thursday, March 20, 2008

A is for......

Posted by samele at 9:05 AM 0 comments


going to school every day, being on time (I may have been tardy one time), taking what you think are good notes, studying those notes...

I have been stalking my school's information system WAITING on my grade for fundamentals of baking to be posted... YES I know how to bake.. YES I been doing it a LONG time, but there is a difference between commercial baking and kitchen baking.. AND there is something special about having to be at school at 7am when you haven't had to leave the house at 6:15 in a very long long time! I would say I am proud of myself, but I really want to thank God (and the academy...) for bringing out what I had in me..
I tell everybody at school "hey this is my 4th try". You might think that makes it easy, but if it was easy I wouldn't be on my 4th try. This goes to show that you can do anything if you seek HIM first!

PS. gramma.. This A's for you!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

when your sister forces you...

Posted by samele at 10:28 AM 0 comments

Davin's cake
Originally uploaded by lilthorner
My sister is always forcing me to do stuff for her.. I guess its payback for me forcing her to do things for me when we were younger. Anyway, this is THE cake for my sister and her friend's 30th birthday party. It is a few of their favorite things... the party theme was zebra and hot pink.. Real divalicious.

This cake (or cakes) was vanilla cake with strawberry filling. This cake is still one of MY favorite things too.. I had to REALLY step out of my comfort zone to do this.. Now I am always trying to step out of it..

to see other more detailed shots of my sisters cake clicky here

Saturday, October 13, 2007

when your sister forces you to make your nephews cake...

Posted by samele at 10:08 PM 0 comments

DSC02579
Originally uploaded by lilthorner
Not only does she force me to make a cake for my nephew.. she forced me to drive it to sacramento for his school party.. then she forced me to have fun at John's Incredible Pizza and then she forces me to blog about it.. LOL.

Anyway, this is my nephew's 4th birthday cake.. jace is my titi and I am his titi.. aint that cute! BTW, I am already booked for next October for his 5th birthday bash! Family will keep u baking...

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Happy Birthday to Me!

Posted by samele at 8:20 PM 0 comments

mybirthday0807
Originally uploaded by lilthorner
So, my birthday was 8/2... who bakes the cake chick a birthday cake? ummm I got plenty of jokes, but I ended up getting a cake was supposed to be tres leches from a local bakery that I love.. Unfortunately, the cake was out of the case and not special ordered. I don't even think it was tres leches, I didn't like it at all, so what did I have to go do? Make my first tres leches cake... I loved the flavor.. yes it says happy birthday to me!

Monday, July 23, 2007

staci35

Posted by samele at 3:50 PM 0 comments

staci35
Originally uploaded by lilthorner
this is a 3 tier butter cake with mocha filling, icing and home made fondant.. My friend celebrated her 35th birthday this past weekend.

Saturday, July 14, 2007

shipwreck

Posted by samele at 12:36 PM 0 comments

DSC02494
Originally uploaded by lilthorner
here is the shipwreck centerpiece!
 

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