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With Halloween coming up this Saturday, we have all of your Bakehouse favorites with a new scary twist. We have the perfect Halloween treats for you and your family, just in case you give away all of your Halloween candy to the trick-or-treater at your door. Throughout the week, we will have a variety of Halloween decorated cakes, eyeball cake balls, monster-decorated whoopie pies, pumpkin and ghost large decorated cookies, a variety of  Halloween cut-out sugar cookies, skeleton gingerbread men, cupcakes with Halloween rings on top, and Halloween decorated petite fours. Be sure to stop by to get some of these delicious holiday desserts for a Halloween party at school or work, or treats for you to snack on to get you in the Halloween mood. You can also stop by to get some desserts to pass out to the trick -or- treater at your door because treats from Montgomery Bakehouse are sure to be the talk of any neighborhood Halloween celebration. Also, in preparation for Halloween on Saturday, you can order specific Halloween treats to meet your needs, and we only need a day’s notice for your order. A family tradition of ours as Halloween approached each year was to have a jack-o-lantern shaped cake either before we went trick-or-treating, or as we were passing out treats to the ghosts and Disney princesses who showed up at our door. This jack-o-lantern cake always made us excited for our trick-or-treating experience, and it always put us in the mood to dress up in a crazy costume for everyone to see. These family memories are irreplaceable, and we want you and your family to have similar memories- memories that you can look back on in ten years, to remind you of how little your kids really were, and how much they loved trick-or-treating and always eating a Halloween themed dessert. We want to wish you a happy Halloween, and we hope that we can help make it the best one yet!

With Halloween being just two weeks away and with the fall weather and fall festivities quickly approaching, it is no surprise that this Wednesday, October 21, is National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day. Our pumpkin cheesecake recipe dates all the way back to Tim Schenk’s Pop-Pop, John Schenk. He made this delicious pumpkin cheesecake at his bakery in Germantown, Pennsylvania. When Tim’s dad, Ken Schenk, took over the bakery, he continued to make these yummy pumpkin cheesecakes. Tim has now continued that tradition and makes the pumpkin cheesecakes every year around the fall time. Be sure to stop by to not only get your pumpkin cheesecake to celebrate, but also get our other delicious pumpkin items. Although sometimes pumpkin items can be over done around this time of the year, you can never go wrong with too many pumpkin desserts. We will also have our pumpkin pies, pumpkin rolls, and our pumpkin spice, pumpkin cream cheese, and pumpkin chocolate chip sweetbreads and muffins. You can celebrate on Wednesday and the rest of the week with pumpkin cheesecake and other treats that are all baked from scratch with fresh ingredients. We have included a Pumpkin Fritter recipe from historic Williamsburg, Virginia that is a family favorite around fall time.

 

Pumpkin Fritters

Makes 1-1/2 Dozen

Ingredients:

1 Egg

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1-1/2 cups of canned pumpkin

1 cup of all purpose flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of baking soda

2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice

1/2 teaspoon of ginger

1 tablespoon of melted butter

1 teaspoon of vanilla

A sprinkle of Confectioners(powdered) sugar for on top

Directions:

Beat eggs, sugar, and salt until light and fluffy

Blend in pumpkin

Sift flour, baking powder, and baking soda together

Beat that into pumpkin and egg mixture

Add spices, butter, and vanilla

Mix well

Drop by tablespoon on to well greased, hot griddle

Watch carefully because they scorch easily

Sprinkle Confectioners sugar on each one as you take them off the griddle

Enjoy!

 

 

It is finally October, and with the weather getting a little cooler, we have brought out all of our delicious fall treats. We have all kinds of seasonal sweet breads, muffins, pastries, pies, and cakes. It is always a family tradition of ours to eat our delicious Apple Dumplings on the first day of fall every year. An Apple Dumpling is a peeled and cored apple with cinnamon and sugar in the middle wrapped with pie dough. When we lived in Pennsylvania, it was also a family tradition to go to a local apple orchard to pick fresh apples and drink homemade apple cider at the beginning of fall each year. Although we cannot do this anymore, we still have apple cider shipped to us every year from the same apple orchard that we went to for years. These family traditions help us get in the mood for fall, and make the perfect combination of  tasty food with family fun! Along with apple dumplings, we have pumpkin spice, pumpkin chocolate chip, and pumpkin cream cheese sweet breads and muffins. Our pumpkin roll, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin cheesecake are also back, and they are perfect desserts to bring to any seasonal party. Eating some apple and pumpkin desserts just might make this Texas fall seem a little cooler. A fall family recipe of ours is included below to make this season better than ever!

 

Holiday Broccoli Wreath

Green and Red pepper, chopped

1 small onion, chopped

1 small broccoli head, chopped

1- 10 oz. Can of Cream of Chicken

4 oz. of shredded Colby Jack cheese

1- 5 oz. can of chunky chicken, drained

2- 8 oz. can of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375°F

Mix all ingredients excluding the crescent rolls

Place the rolls on a round baking stone

Spoon the filling on each piece of dough

Take the tip of the triangle and fold it over the filling

Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes