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Feb. 7, 2009

A Very Special Bakery Tour

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Friday afternoon our homeschool group met at a local bakery in town for a tour, but it wasn't just any tour! Friday also happened to be K's 10th birthday and we had set up the tour so that the children would get to see a cake get decorated and eat it which was also going to double as a surprise birthday cake for K *grin*.

All 20 of us squeezed into the kitchen and got to see the super huge oven, cooper boxes and where they made the breads and pastries. The first worker actually arrives at the bakery at 1am to get the breads started rising and then at 3am the head baker arrives to help get the rest of the pastries and such made. On any given morning he said that you could walk into the kitchen and find over a 1000 pastry items on the big carts and so much bread dough on the work board that there would barely be a bare spot :) I can't imagine going to work at 1am... I'm just heading off to be at that time usually! LOL.

Here are 2 of the giant Hobart mixers that they use. Wouldn't you just love to have one of those on bread day?! I sure wish I had one. In the summer when I was selling at the market I was making 22 loaves of fresh bread every Sunday morning and the giant oven and mixers would have been a welcome blessing :)

After we got the tour of all the machinery we got down to the really yummy stuff. He shared with us how to make icing roses and the kids were totally blown away by it. I'm still not sure how in the world he did it, but it sure looked easy :) By now K was starting to catch on that this cake was for him because the baker asked him what flavor of icing he wanted for his special day. LOL.

And when he wrote happy birthday K on the cake the secret was definitely out! Haha, we sure surprised him, he had no idea :)

We lit the cake, sang happy birthday to him and pigged out on delicious butter frosted cake with a bavarian cream filling. Delicious! When we got home K said that it was the best birthday every :) I'll have to admit it was the easiest one ever *grin*. If you happen to have a child with an upcoming birthday and you want to do something a little different, check in with one of your local bakeries and see if they will let you bring along a group of children for a tour and cake making demo. It's something they definitely won't forget!

Blessings,

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Feb. 8, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ApplesofGold

WOW-what an awesome field trip & birthday!! Holly

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