More desserts from Christmas

My mother and I have perfected petite-fores! She was determined to find the right recipe, so with a little work we did it. The ones below are 2 flavors first a simple fruit flavored one and then a almond chocolate one. Mom made the cake and helped with the layers I made the chocolate filling and decorated the tops.

I also made some chocolate almond truffles to use up some chocolate I had melted.

Here are some more cupcakes we made for family.

And finally another gift basket we made. This one had more savory items instead of sweets because the recipient was diabetic.

Fiddlin' Rooster Farm Bakery

Here are some of the Christmas orders we have been working on in the little red hen bakery at Fiddlin' rooster farm.

Gift basket:

This basket has lots of goodies in it. All of the baskets are made to order to fit each customer. This one was for a family that loved chocolate, so we made chocolate almond truffles, chocolate grasshopper cookies, chocolate pecan toffee, Russian tea cakes, spiced pecans, and muscadine cider. I hope they enjoyed all the treats!

These cupcakes were made for the nursing home in water valley. They were so much fun to make and turned out so cute! We actually got 3 more orders just like these for Christmas.
The cupcakes are vanilla and strawberry. We used fondant and a little butter cream icing to decorate.

Look close all of the snowmen look different! One even has indigestion from eating too much!

I just realized I had these pictures in my camera from the past month. So I hope you enjoy all the yummy treats I got to make at the farm over the fall festival. And as always anything you see I can make for you, a friend, or family.

Cotton Gin Cake

Mom and I made this cake on Friday for a little boy's birthday. He was celebrating his birthday in a cotton field, so we themed the cake around cotton. When he looked at the cake he said,"Ooh it's cotton and a trailer and bails, where is the tractor?" His mother told us that last year the cake had a john deer on it!

I took this picture before we decided on one final detail. So the finished cake had grass around the barn. I will try and get a better picture of it posted later.

Some treats from the Little Red Hen Bakery!

I finally took some pictures of the items I have made in the bakery. I quickly grabbed my camera the other day and took a few pictures before anyone walked up. Unfortunately it's not everything. I keep forgetting to take pictures of stuff and then it sells before I can. So I will try to be better about it and I hope you enjoy the pictures below.

Crescents and Chocolate Crescents

These tarts are filled with the same caramel I use on my apples and then have a layer of chocolate ganache poured on top.
Good old fashioned Chocolate chip cookies!

These are the newest recipe we have been making. They are a type of oatmeal cookie that tastes nothing like an oatmeal cookie! They have chocolate, pecans, and craisens inside this soft cookie!

For Fall we have been making candy apples!

And Yummy caramel Apples with or without Oreo cookie crumbs!

What would fall be like without some Caramel popcorn?

The cutest thing I have been making in the bakery is the worm bucket! How cute is this! When you purchase them you get to keep the little bucket and enjoy the dirt dessert inside!

Well that's a few of the treats at Fiddlin' Rooster Farm, so come out and enjoy some yummy treats and Fall fun!

My Mom's Farm!

I have been working for my mom for the past month at her farm. She opened a learning farm with a gift shop, corn maze, educational activities, and a bakery! So for the time being I have stoped working for Taylor grocery catering and have devoted my time to helping my mom on the farm. I have been so busy that I haven't taken any pictures or blogged about it until now. So I hope yall enjoy the new changes. Please check out the website and come visit us! http://fiddlinroosterfarm.com

This is the view from inside the pavilion looking at the general store entrance on the left and the bakery concession stand on the right.

Everything has a barn animal theme. The bakery is named after a classic children's book and was the inspiration for a lot of the colors for the bakery.

The cake display case with a few items in it. This was before I stocked it completely.

Morgan my son took the picture of my pecan pie.

Here is a look inside my new kitchen!

This was one of my customers buying some bread Saturday.

Since we opened in September we have gotten a few special orders for cakes and bread. This was a birthday cake my mom made. It is an Italian cream cake for a 98 year old's birthday!

I made sure to take my mom's picture too! She hasn't gotten to bake much since opening, but was able to sneak in for a little while to make this cake while I made bread.

Please come see the farm and keep us open!

Almond cake!

After watching the recent movie Julie & Julia my mom went out and bought Julia Child's cook book Mastering the Art of French Cooking! It is amazing! I can't believe we didn't have it before now. We have so many cook books, but we didn't have hers! So I wanted to make the cake featured in the movie, because it looked delicious! I have to say for my first ever Julia recipe it went great! The only thing I found that I need to change is the cooking time. I followed all of the directions to a t. I even whipped the egg whites by hand, something I have never done! Today's technology has prevented us from learning a lot of basic abilities and arm strength! The cake tasted great and had a wonderful flavor to it. I just need to watch the time. It was a little dry around the edges. The icing was so simple I think I didn't whip it long enough. That or it was just to warm during transportation to my mom's. (yes I had to share it with her since she bought the book) She was very surprised! The icing was really soft, so next time I will whip a little longer. All in All I congratulate Julia! I have always been a fan, but now I appreciate her a lot more! Yummy Yummy! Bon Appetite!