One More Day...Can She Do It People?

OK - so apparently the dreaded "Vacation on the Brain" is NOT a good thing to get when you own and operate a bakery. I guess I've always been OK when the dreaded disease hits when I had a "desk job", but it's gettin' a little dangerous here now people!

I dropped a loaf of our bread today (and my husband wasn't even in town to be able to eat it!), I started frosting my pumpkin cake order like my raspberry cake order and visa versa (who knew they looked so much alike when you have a disease!), I broke a plate I dropped, I spilled sticky lemon goo all over the floor, AND I forgot to vacuum the floors before I left today! Ayy-yiy-yiy-yiy!!

Funny thing though, I never once skipped a beat telling people all about my pending vacation, the position I will be assuming in just a teeny day and a half, or how much I can't wait for Sunday to be over. Huh. Had no problems there.

Let's hope I can get through tomorrow without any more damage and then it's smooth sailing from there....at least for one whole, complete, entire, I can't wait, whoohooo, week!

See "you" in a week! :o)

"Our Bakery"

Last week, a new customer came into the bakery to "check us out" (and if I had a nickel...). While she was looking around, weighing her options, she told me she heard about our little bakery from her coworker that told her she had to "come check out OUR new little bakery". Our?!

Our bakery?!

OMG! I SO love that! I love that so! Our bakery! It's almost as if it's all I've ever wanted..........

Sally's Uniforms!

I'm so excited! The Tshirts I have been wanting to get around to ordering have finally been completed! It's exciting, cute, fun and sassy! And I just love them! Here they are!

OK - are you ready for the punch line....

I know, right?! :o) See! Now you know why I love 'em!!

Blond Brownies by 2 Brunettes!

My mom (Gramma Sara) was helping in the bakery yesterday and I asked her to make some Blond Brownies to sell. Now, Gramma Sara will be the first to tell you that she is no baker, would rather be play in the dirt than making a dirt cake and yet, every Wednesday she comes in to help me get caught up. I love that.

So I gave her that Blond Brownie recipe cuz they really are simpley dimpley! 'Cept, it didn't go just right. And that's OK -- insert your gasp here! I took that mixture that didn't work out right and knew what we could do to fix it simpley dimpley and WAAA-LAAAH -- a FANTASTIC Blond Brownie made fantastically by two Brunettes!

I thought I would share the recipe we created here for you - insert another gasp, right?! A baker giving away her recipes? Why not? Every once and a while, wouldn't it be fun to make some of the yum you have at Sally's? I thought so....

Here is our scrumptious recipe! (And you can add ANYTHING you want to these -- we made ours w/ white chocolate chips THIS time!!)

BLOND BROWNIES anyone can make, no matter what color their hair is

Mix 3/4 c. of SOFTENED or melted butter (or margarine) with
2 c. packed brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla (imitation is best for this recipe) and then add
3 eggs
after that is combined (and you can do this entirely by hand) add
2 cups flour
pinch or two of salt
2 tsp. baking powder and mix all of this until blended together.

Then add whatever treats you would like to: butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, nuts, M&M's, peanut butter chips or mini cups, chopped candy bars, toffee bits -- ANYTHING and everything!

Pour into a GREASED (we used baking SPRAY -- like Pam) 9x13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Then, moan while you enjoy these soft little nibblers of luv'!

You can thank me later............