Roasted Pear & Cranberry Tart and Thanksgiving Pie Orders

The busiest baking season has arrived, and with it the bakery is swirling in scents of butter browning, spices toasting and sugars caramelizing. Today marks the very deliberate march to the bake of our Thanksgiving pies. In recent days, pie dough production has been ramping up, and it took off with a vengeance this weekend. Our mixer and dough sheeter are in near constant motion as bakers run the machines day and night to mix, turn, sheet and shape dough into pie shells.The bakery is warm and the windows steamy from all of the activity inside.

Thank you so much for all of your holiday pie pre-orders thus far. We are so grateful for the opportunity to be part of your Thanksgiving table.

We also made some additional treats available for holiday pick-up this week. One is a compote that we are creating using our neighbor’s homegrown quince, poached in an orange-vanilla bean syrup and mixed with our sweet and tart cranberry sauce. You can find this and others in the Thanksgiving section of our online store for pre-order now.

Last week we received our annual email from Cranberry Creek Farm announcing that their organic berries grown in the bog on their family farm on the beautiful coast of southern Oregon were ready! Just in time to turn into sweet treats for the holidays.

Our Secret Item this week is a rustic Roasted Pear and Cranberry Tart, bursting with these fresh cranberries mixed with brown butter-vanilla roasted pears. Available this week for our newsletter subscribers only, so be sure to join our email list for access to all of our weekly specials.

(Note that the online shop will be open until 9pm on Thursday 11/19 to take orders for both this weekend and for all Thanksgiving pre-orders. That will be the final day for all holiday pre-orders!)