Category: Family

We have everything you need to start your New Year off in the best way possible. Whether it be for your New Year’s Eve snacks or breakfast and dessert on New Year’s Day, we have all of your Montgomery Bakehouse favorites. Some special ones include our New Year’s pretzel, which is made of sweet dough with icing on top, and your choice of filling inside. This delicious sweet pretzel is said to bring good luck for the coming year, so what better way to celebrate the New Year than with some delicious New Year’s pretzels? We also have a delicious New Year’s log, which is a chocolate cake rolled with buttercream icing, and covered in chocolate icing. This is a tasty way to kick off the New Year. If you are looking for nice treats for a party, we have large decorated cookies that are just sugar cookies with icing on top that are decorated for the celebration of the new year’s arrival, and we have petite fours that are small vanilla cakes with a sweet icing on top that are also decorated for 2016. These are just some of our treats that are perfect for your New Year’s Eve party and for your New Year’s dinner. Also, be sure to stop by and get dinner rolls to accompany your New Year’s dinner. As a family, we always eat pork and sauerkraut for our New Year’s dinner. This tradition has been passed down through each generation. Since our family is of German heritage, this meal on New Year’s day is said to bring good luck for the New Year as well. We always have our dinner rolls with our pork and sauerkraut, and for dessert we always have our New Year’s log. Some of our New Year’s traditions are so meaningful because we always remember our grandparents and great grandparents who helped start these traditions that we still partake in today. The Schenk family and the rest of the Montgomery Bakehouse crew want to wish you and your family a Happy New Year, and we hope to help in making your New Year a very special one!

For the Christmas season, we are offering many opportunities for you and your family to start new traditions. On Friday December 4 at 5:30pm and Saturday December 5 at 1pm and 4pm, we will have gingerbread houses to decorate, and we will supply the candy and icing, so you can make the house of your dreams. You can reserve your house by calling us at 936-756-1745. This is a great way to spend family time doing a fun activity that everyone can enjoy! We will also have a time when you and your family  can come and decorate gingerbread men. This session will be on Saturday, December 12 from 10am to 3pm. We all love special traditions that we always remember even as adults. These family traditions make every holiday season so special, and often times it is difficult to start a tradition that everyone in the family enjoys and looks forward to every year. Having a fun afternoon or evening of decorating is the perfect activity for the child who loves to taste the icing as you put it on the house, for the child who is meticulous and loves decorating, or for the child who loves Christmas so much that any holiday activity will make their day. Every year, our family decorates a gingerbread house to put in our living room to add to our Christmas decorations. The family time that we spend decorating the house and finding the perfect spot for it every year is a valuable memory for all of us. Each person plays a role as we decorate our house. Heather and Elise Schenk are perfect for decorating the house with their artistic abilities, while Tim and Kaitlynn Schenk are perfect for eating the candy and icing as they decorate, and Ethan and Jason Schenk love spending the time decorating the house because it is a fun tradition that gets them in the mood for Christmas. The memories that each of us have from these experiences are ones that we will never forget, and ones that we look back on throughout the rest of the year just waiting for it to be that time of year again. We want you to have these fun family Christmas traditions as well. There is nothing greater in this world than having the opportunity to spend times like these with your children before they are all grown up and have families of their own.

Montgomery Bakehouse has you covered when it comes to sitting in your deer stand waiting on a nice buck to walk your way. This coming weekend marks the start of deer season, and what better way is there to kick off the new deer season than with Montgomery Bakehouse desserts? The early mornings of sitting in your stand waiting on a deer can be cold and rough, but eating delicious goodies are not only sure to warm you up, but are also sure to make your waiting much more pleasant. As a family, we go hunting every deer season, and we are sure to bring along a few of our favorite sweets. We never leave without taking our popular Texas Tornado cookies, our brownies, and our chocolate and chocolate chip whoopie pies. These are some of our family favorites, and having these sweets to snack on in the stand is something that has become apart of our hunting experience. Every year our family hunts near the town of Fairfield, Texas with Oldfield Outfitters, and every year we get delicious deer meat to bring home that ends up being our dinner for most of the winter and spring months until the next deer season comes. Our family’s favorite thing to make with ground deer meat is a family recipe called Goulash. Stop by Montgomery Bakehouse this deer season to load up on all the sweets that will make your experience one to remember. It will give your children something that they can look back on and remember how every hunting experience when they got to spend quality time with their family began with Montgomery Bakehouse.

Goulash- A Schenk family favorite:

Ingredients:

1/2 box of macaroni, cooked and drained

1 lb. of ground deer meat, browned

2 cans of tomato soup

Cracker Barrel sharp white cheese , sliced thin

Directions:

Mix all together. Put in sprayed casserole pan. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

 

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