Grand Central U-Bake — June 6th, 9am-1pm
June 2nd, 2009I’m much more of a cook than a baker. I make my own pizza dough and every once in awhile I’ll bake a cake or some cookies but that’s about it. So when Piper Davis of Grand Central Bakery came by the other day with a big bag of GC’s soon to hit the market U-Bake frozen cookies, puff pastry and pie dough I felt pretty unworthy. Turns out I’m the ideal person to give them a try because I’m a novice baker who loves tasty baked goods but rarely takes the time to make them.
For my U-Bake pie I started by making this…
A strawberry, pear and rhubarb filling
Then I filled this…
Grand Central's U-Bake pie crust
And I ended up with this…
Just out of the oven and soon to be topped with vanilla ice cream
The line of frozen pre-made and formed cookies (oatmeal chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter and ginger molasses) are even easier. You pull out the frozen dozen, separate a few cookies, roll them in sugar, put them on the cookie sheet and 10 minutes later you have delicious home baked cookies.
Ginger molasses cookies straight from the oven
I made a whole bunch of savory treats with the puff pastry dough for dinner with a friend’s family but I didn’t take any photos of the cheesy puffs because the dinner was at their home and I didn’t want my camera to get in the way of our eating. Luckily right before we left for their place I took a photo of the fillings…
Ricotta/sorrel pesto/mozzarella mix with bulk spicy Italian sausage
If you have a chance this Saturday, June 6th GC is rolling out its new U-Bake line (pie dough, puff pastry dough, pre-made pies and cookies) at all of its Portland bakeries. From 9am to 1pm each bakery cafe will be staffed with a baker sampling U-Bake products and sharing recipes and advice. Added bonus: 50% of the proceeds of U-Bake products sold that day will be donated to the Portland Schools Foundation. Be sweet and go buy some sweets.
Grand Central
www.grandcentralbakery.com
9am-1pm Saturday, June 6th U-bake roll out at all Portland Grand Central Bakeries
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Oh good god. That’s just way too wonderful.
January 1st, 2010 at 3:50 pm
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