bake shop blueprint

so, when i was home for julia's wedding, i met up with my good friend tim, for lunch in oakland.

we had lunch and i told him about my bakery master plan so he told me about a bakery around the corner that was cool and of course, i wanted to check it out. you guys, it's my dream bakery! it's called bakesale betty.

it's in a great location, on telegraph, right by macarthur bart. it's close to some cool shops and it was pretty packed the whole time we were there. not to mention the super cute tables outside that are old re-painted ironing boards. my friend tonya said that they can be snooty sometimes, which is a downer, but other than that, it seems pretty much perfect.

we got some ginger cookies so i could compare them to the ones that i love and have made. we went outside and sat at one of the cute tables and the next thing i know, they bring us out this amazing lemon slush drink, for free.

then shortly after that, they bring us out what i thought was coffee cake, but turned out to be amazing banana bread. soooooo good! i am going to try to combine a few recipes to come up with something similar.

so, this is what i want my bakery to be like. just as yummy, just as fun. and, i might be trying out some banana bread recipes on willing taste testers.

ginger + bread = love

ok, so my weekend plans to go away aren't going to work out, so while working on websites for some of my lovely friends, i will try to get back on the baking wagon. i've been wanting to make this for a while.



it's this gingerbread recipe from the tartine bakery in SF. juliann and kathryn gave me this recipe book and i've been dying to make so many recipes from it. that place is heaven. i can't wait to visit home again in two weeks!

if the recipe turns out, i'll post the recipe and give you my results. if not, i never posted this.

cake on a platter

i haven't baked in a while due to my out of townness and subsequent tiredness. so, i will post these pictures of what i intend to put my next cake in to display.




this lovely cake platter was a birthday gift from my good friend, broek. i've been wanting one of these for forever and she didn't even know it! anyway, shout out to my homegirl who blesses me with her great taste in gifts.

knitting factory

these are like two of my favorite worlds colliding. i'm gonna have to try this. now i will have to learn how to make pies and be a "fly girl" at the same time.

working the corner

julia and i have been obsessed with brownies, and more particularly corner pieces of brownies since we can remember. we always thought of making a pan that would make it possible. looks like someone beat us to the punch.


in my future bakery i plan to have a plentiful supply of corner piece brownies.

anyone need to get me a late birthday present??