Saturday, June 19, 2010

Trial run to produce 24 strudels in "one sitting". Part 1.

The beginning: Friday evening 7:30 pm to 11 pm (including clean-up)
We needed some encouragement  so opened a bottle of... dark red grape juice.....Then Marilyn revealed the bushel of apples that were awaiting their fate and the new tool to skin&chop them.
After a couple of asymmetrical apples we realized this will be no use for us.











 Marilyn's molds to make uniform fillings.

Friday, June 18, 2010

The Moonlight Bakers in partnership with Dean and DeLuca

We are very happy to announce that our apple strudel will be featured in the catalog of D&D!! 
Summer 2010

The first order for their Halloween catalog is going to be a mere 200 strudels (!!??##!!) by August 25th. (400 more coming until Christmas) This is no small task! As Martha put it : I wouldn't want to do 600 of ANYTHING let alone stretch that many strudels!!
So since we have never done anything of this magnitude we decided to document it (thanks Liz for the idea!) . We are trying to look at it as a learning experience with all its ups and downs, laughs and screams, with all the dishes to wash at shockingly late hours. Eventually nothing will save us from turning into real pros at the end!
At the moment we're looking for packaging: it doesn't have to be fancy, since it will not go on a store shelf. But it needs to be sturdy enough to "travel"and keep our strudel safe. And of course it needs to be the right size to accommodate our 10x2x3 strudel.
Looks like Marilyn found the perfect one!
....to be continued

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Passover cake tasting








Baking challenge #1 was to make beautiful and delicious Passover-style desserts.On the list we had brown sugar-strawberry cake, apricot-walnut pave, almond-orange cake, chocolate-walnut torte and almond-hazelnut Dacquoise plus an assortment of cookies, candies and other treats.
We had a great turnout for the tasting and also got some orders in for Passover.
Our next baking challenge will be announced soon. If you have any suggestion please contact us
at moonlightbakers@gmail.com