I’m so happy that we made it through the holidays largely unscathed! If you bought baked goods from us, we at JennyCakes truly hope they made your holidays a tiny bit more special.

NEW HOURS! Don’t forget that we are now open Tuesday through Saturday 8am to 6pm. We’ve added Tuesdays and Wednesdays on a 6-month trial basis. Hopefully this change will be good for both JennyCakes Bakery and our customers.

Ah, the doldrums of winter are upon us and I’m already complaining about the cold and the blah-ness of the winter months. Two things perk me up though: watching the Caps (just finished watching the Winter Classic – woo hoo!), and creating what I hope will be a cheerful new winter menu.

So here’s what’s new or coming back this winter:

Aunt Val’s coffee cake (we’ve missed her!)

Chocolate cupcakes with whipped peanut butter frosting (I’m looking forward to cutting up Reese’s cups to put on top and occasionally making a piece or two mysteriously disappear)

Pecan pie bars (especially for the very patient woman who comes in frequently wondering when we’re bringing them back)

Rum cakes, both CHOCOLATE and vanilla (still in love with these and can’t wait to try the chocolate one at the suggestion of my friend Angelika — I even bought a new mini bundt cake pan!)

Triple threat chocolate cookies (insanely yummy and gooey, these will be a great gift for a favorite Valentine 🙂

Irish kickers (in March only) — chocolate cupcakes made with Guinness beer then frosted with buttercream flavored with Baileys Irish Cream and Jameson whiskey

I also plan to fool around some with ganache this month as a possible new frosting, and tweak Hillary’s Heart Healthy Bran Muffins so that we have a decent answer to the question, “Do you have anything healthy?”

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. We’ll be sure to have lots of chocolate goodies as well as cutout cookies decorated with tons of pink and red.

So January, February and March don’t sound quite so bad now, right? Right?

Jenny

 

 

 

Whew! Thanksgiving was a little wilder than I thought and it turns out pies take FOREVER to bake (even longer than I remembered from last year) so there’s a lot of hurry up and wait involved. I pulled my first almost-all-nighter (1.5 hours of sleep Tuesday night) since college and may have whined to a few too many customers about this on Wednesday. My apologies!

So with a deep breath, we now head to Hanukkah and Christmas! I’m more excited about this holiday season than usual, which may have something to do with discovering the Hallmark channel recently and their endless stream of bright, cheerful and yes, cheesy, holiday movies. 🙂

For Christmas, we’ll do things the same way we did for Thanksgiving because in general that worked pretty well. Please place your orders no later than Sat Dec 20 but keep in mind that we may have to stop accepting orders sooner than that if we get worried that the volume has become more than we can handle.

All orders may be picked up on Weds Dec 24 between 8am and noon. We will be open for foot traffic and fully stocked during those hours as well. We will be closed from Thurs Dec 25 through and including Thurs Jan 1 but we will reopen on Fri Jan 2 and will start our NEW SCHEDULE: Tues through Sat 8am to 6pm. Woo-hoo!

For the holidays, we’ll bring back the coconut almond cupcakes (because they look like snow and snow makes me think of Christmas), jam thumbprints, pecan snowballs, Scottish shortbread, the buche de noel, peppermint buttercream and gingerbread boys and girls.

Below is a list of what we’ll be offering for special orders this Christmas. We hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Love, Jenny and many bakery elves

Baked goods available for Christmas orders:

• whipped pumpkin pie
• pecan pie (with or without bourbon)
• apple pie with streusel
• pumpkin roll
• buche de noel (or yule log) — flourless chocolate sponge cake rolled up with chocolate whipped cream and covered with a chocolate coffee frosting
• any of our cakes
• any of our smaller items, such as cookies, muffins and cupcakes, so long as the order is for a minimum of 12 of a particular flavor

For the smaller items, if you would like a wider variety, please stop by on Weds Dec 24 during our hours of 8am to noon. We will be fully stocked with our usual items and you will be able to pick and choose. We would suggest you come early though because we are likely to sell out quickly. Thanks!