It's my last weekend baking at the theme park! And of course I got to do a massive amount of extra baking, because you know, why not?!
Not that I am complaining mind you, I'm always excited when the Labor Day car show event arrives at Silverwood, because that means the regular season's at an end. Also, it means cinnamon rolls and muffins, so many cinnamon rolls and muffins (We make them for the car show people).
Now, normally we do blueberry muffin tops every day, along with the cinnamon rolls, and place them in the pastry case out front for the guests to purchase. Blueberry muffins are a childhood favorite of the owner, so they are always on the menu. Usually, we include them in the car show breakfast bake up too, but there was a bit of a supply issue.
Our blueberry order didn't show up, but since the park always has huckleberries on hand in the freezer, we adapted and overcame. It was fun to mix things up too, literally and figuratively.
I was able to use the same muffin top recipe, but I tweaked it a little here and there to account for the extra moisture the huckleberries had. That and you have to be extra careful folding in huckleberries, unless you want everything to be super purple.
A little additional flour here, a good coating of the berries there, some careful folding, a bit of batter checking and stressing, and after a solid amount of bake time in our dying oven, I was blessed with some dandy looking muffin tops.
Being bakers who never want to serve anything substandard to our guests, we cracked one open and sacrificed ourselves in the name of quality control taste testing. Holy yum, those muffins turned out right nice.
A bit of white icing drizzling and powdered sugar dusting later, and I had several dozen muffins packed up in cake boxes for the first day's attendees.
Today, while I was helping the hubs and a bunch of his shooting team kids put the final touches on attaching the yurt's roof, I realized that I only have two days left in the bakery. Don't get me wrong, I am ready to close that chapter in my life, this summer was rough, but I truly love baking and am going to miss crafting such delectable comestibles on such a large scale.
That said, with me being me, there just might already be something of that scale in the works for me to work on. Yes, I am a bit of a nut, probably a hazelnut, but I am going to be somewhat kinder to myself as I continue baking and limit it to one or two days a week instead of killing my carcass to the tune of cookie-induced death.
And now, I'm off, there's a birthday party to attend. And no, I didn't bake the cake lol!
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A question came to mind reading this... Is it possible to coat the huckleberries in a syrup then let the coating set before folding them in to keep them whole and round? That could reduce the added sugar for the recipe and keep the shape nicely. But I'm probably thinking too much on this and there is a way easier method...
Congrats on turning this page in your life and I bet it was a challenging but right fun time at the park. I hope you got to see the instant satisfaction/relishing/devouring reactions on peoples' faces as they ingested your culinary masterpieces, the best baker fuel there is.
I missed the bit about your yurt... We were planning on a yurt originally and still desire one so I've become very curious.
Ooh, a very good question indeed! Syrup is added moisture, so you would probably have to adjust the dry ingredients to compensate, plus it would bleed and dye the heck out of your batter, but I think an experiment would be fun. Usually, when you want add ins to retain shape, you coat them in flour before folding them into the batter, but I'm all for giving things a try.
And you are so right about ingestion happiness reactions being baker fuel lol! Today, as I put my last batch of cinnamon bread in the warmer, one of the front coffee employees told me about her first time eating the bread and how she ate the entire loaf (An incredible feat!). It made me happy to go out today with a smile.
A couple years ago, friends of ours bought a place that had a yurt bed and breakfast and didn't want the yurts, asked us if we wanted one, we said sure! We helped dismantle all of them, and ours has been sitting in the equipment shed the last couple years. It was quite a chore putting it up, but boy is the thing awesome! I'll do a follow up post here in a bit with the the post set-up deets.
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What can huckleberries be used for?
Also, did you enjoy the birthday party?
Here in the Pacific Northwest huckleberries are used in EVERYTHING, from BBQ sauce to pancakes lol!
And yes, the birthday party was lovely, we had salted caramel cheesecake and watched comedy shows!
Hope you had a fantastic weekend!
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Friggin' nuts ... that's what you are. But you made me curious, what is in the works now? Oh, those huckleberry cupcakes look delicious ... although I was thinking for a moment "It's not Christmas yet is it?"
Yes, yes I am friggin' nuts lol lol!
I like baking and need to have that in my life, so of course a little baking side hustle fell into my lap, which will be a nice creative outlet while I am working my way through therapist certification schooling😉 And farming. And all the other nutty things I do...
Hope you had the most splendid weekend ever my dear friend!
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It sounds good and right up your alley. We had a good weekend. Saturday we had a nice outing and Sunday we harvested our apples and juiced them all to have the most fresh and pure apple juice one can have.
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Good ol' huckleberries to the rescue! And I love that last photo...made me think about OSHA again...LOL!