Bakery series #2: Crust & Crumb Bakery

Crumb & Crust Bakery

In the heart of Bay Village on LBI (Long beach Island), there is a bakery called: Crust & Crumb Bakery.

You can go and visit at: 830 N Bay Ave. Beach Heaven, NJ. 08008. It's located next to the Song of the Sea gift store.

Let's Bake! Podcast: Intro

Welcome to the Let's Bake! Podcast - Each week I'm going to be talking about something about baking, baking tips, and the benefits of baking.

Below is an audio recording, so if you want to listen: 

Let's Bake · Let’s Bake! Podcast Intro

The long-lost but not forgotten recipe

 Now, you are probably wondering what I meant by calling this particular story “The long-lost recipe”. Well, that is a very good question and I have a pretty good reason for calling it that.

You see I stopped going to this family's house, when the youngest went to college. Somehow, that baking cooky book was misplaced. You might be wondering if that recipe/book played such a big role in my life, how could I have forgotten it? Well, time passed. I had forgotten, as sometimes happens when you are busy doing other things.

Where is all started!

 When I was little,  I started baking. It actually came about when I would spend the day with another family, and one of their daughters used to look after me, while my Mom and Dad were at work.

Behind every recipe there is a story

 Have you ever been to your grandmother's house or looking though your mother's cookbook? I am sure you have. Have you ever asked them about the story behind how they found that recipe?

Well, I for one have been asked that many times. 

In the section of "Feature Stories" I will be telling different stories about "The story behind that recipe". Now, this will happen randomly. So, keep your eyes open for the story behind three of the many recipes that I personally have made numerous times.

I have the key to the storybook and am about to unlock it and tell all of you how I ended up with a recipe.

Keep on the lookout, and I hope I will see you in the adventures that we will be going on together as we embark on the "The story behind the recipe", because as they say, "Behind every recipe there is a story".

I hope you enjoy reading these stories!!

Continuation of the Bakery series #1: Marvel's Bakery

 This is a continuation of the Bakery series #1: Marvel's Bakery, and I just remembered that I have a perfect recipe for county biscuits. These are my rendition of Marvel's Buttermilk Biscuits. I baked my favorite recipe for these delicious, buttery, and scrumptious biscuits. 

The link below is to the country biscuits recipe, and my Step by Step YouTube video on how to make these county biscuits in a stand mixer. 

https://letsbakeyouandi.blogspot.com/p/country-biscuits-using-stand-mixer.html

*Note: If you don't have a stand mixer, just use a bowl and a pastry blender (cutter), that is how I usually do it but I was just thinking that doing it in the stand mixer might work. Using a stand mixer might take less time.*

*If you do decide not to use a mixer, that's fine. Just to reassure you the steps will basically be the same (if you do it in a bowl and use a pastry cutter). 

Comment below if you tried it and let me know what you think about it.

Bakery visit series #1: Marvel's Bakery

 Marvel’s Bakery

 

You can visit the Marvel's Bakery at 4 W Maryland Ave, Long Beach, NJ. 08008. 

 

         This corner bakery and coffee shop is the perfect start to any day. This corner coffee and donut shop sells coffee, donuts, pastry and other delicious baked goods. For the past 11 years I have been here for morning coffee, donuts, and bagels/cream cheese when on summer vacation. You might get lucky and be there when they have made biscuits. If you do get to try their biscuits, their delicious buttermilk biscuits are made with egg, cheese and sausage. If you just want to have a biscuit with egg (you will need to get there early. They are so good that they run out very quickly). 

       What makes this corner coffee and donut shop so great, especially for little kids and families because they can actually peek and watch the donuts being made. 

      After they are cooked they get tossed and swirled around in this turn table, to cool them down. They are just waiting to be picked up by the workers and eaten by customers.

     In addition to donuts and coffee, Marvel's Bakery has breakfast pastries like Cinnamon Buns and Blueberry Scones, just to name a few.

    They also make bagels. While I was thinking about Marvel's Bakery and what recipe that I was going to make that corresponded with it, I thought of my favorite 2-ingredient bagels. 

  

    Now, you might be wondering how 2- ingredient bagels would be good. Well, I am here to tell you that I, for one love these delicious bagels. I hope you do too. 

     ** See my recipe for 2-ingredient Bagels, in the recipes section**

https://letsbakeyouandi.blogspot.com/p/2-ingredient-bagels.html

     In the link for the 2 ingredient bagels there is also a link for a step by step YouTube video, where I show how you make them.

  When you click the link above you will see another link that goes to the original website where I got this recipe from. There you can find the original recipe, which includes the quantities of self-rising flour and Greek yogurt. Those two ingredients are what you will need to make these delicious bagels.

Bakery visit series Intro: LBI Edition

 

Introduction to the bakery series!

           Yay, summer is here! Time to take a trip to the Jersey Shore!!

    I want to introduce "The bakery series, the LBI Edition".

   In this bakery series I go to different bakeries. Afterwards, I am going to write a review about the bakery, the service and finally tell you all about the delicious bake good that I tried there. So, the next time you go to the Jersey Shore, you can be sure that there is something sweet for you to try.

  Below are the LBI bakeries that I am going to review: Small-cakes cupcakery & creamery, Marvels, The Coffee Nest & Bake Shop, Birdy's Café and Market, and Crust & Crumb Bakery:

So, the next time that you visit LBI be sure to visit any of these bakeries. The individual articles and reviews will include: The address, an overview about what they have, what I think about the overall service and the bake good. I will even try to recreate it.

*Each addition will be found in the home page, saved in the blog achieve and in the "Bakery visit series" section of the blog, hope you enjoy this series. 

If you want to recommend a bakery for me to review and do an analysis on (please keep it in NJ and Pennsylvania, Morrisville and Lambertville or anywhere that is nearest to NJ) , contact me by email at: letsbakeyouandI@gmail.com or DM me on my Instagram posts*

Check out my Instagram and the blog post tomorrow, where I talk about one of the bakeries. 

Into to blog / July - August 2021

I love baking and I want others to love it to. I want to welcome you to "LetsBakeYouandI". This blog was designed to rejuvenate people’s passion for baking; to inspire a new generation of bakers with easy to follow recipes and to end up with deliciousness using recipes that “actually work”. Each time you try one of these recipes, you can be guaranteed that each recipe works.

 Here is what you can look forward to this July and August:

- Weekly Q & A, on my IG lives. Email me at: LetsBakeYouandI@gmail.com with your questions, on my Instagram posts, and/or in the comments section below, on my YouTube videos. Please keep in mind, I cannot do a weekly Q & A if I do not have any questions. I will also answer questions while I am live on Instagram, if they are put in the comment section during the live!

STAY TUNED!!

- I am going to be starting something that I call "Bakery Visit Series". Each visit is going to be about a visit that I had to a bakery and what I found there. Yay I love bakeries! There will be pictures for an inside look of the bakery and to get a feel about their atmosphere and products.


- Step by step recipes with the links to the original recipe website


- Monthly recipe giveaway, only for people who subscribe with their name and email. I send you the recipe for the monthly recipe giveaway. Stay tuned and keep an eye on it on Instagram.


*Note: Feel free to leave a comment in the comment section anytime. I will be on the lookout for them*.


*Note: Hope you enjoy this journey with me!*


*Note: I only ask for your name and email, and only for the monthly recipe giveaway. All of your information will be kept private.

Happy belated 4th of July 2021

 Happy belated 4th of July, everyone. 

In the celebration of this 4th of July, I decided to make my favorite red velvet cake from www.sallysbakingaddction.com. Since the colors are red, white and blue. I added red food coloring to one layer and then the other layer I did it in blue.

Changes that I made:

- Instead of making the frosting like the recipe says I did a half of a cup of butter and 8 oz. of cream cheese. (This makes it a little less soft and it is more easy to spread and you can take a little more time vs. following exact the recipe says).

- Also I left out the salt.

- Instead of whipping the egg white last I did it first (In my opinion it's easier).

If you like red velvet cake I would highly recommend this recipe. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Recipe is from: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com//red-velvet-layer-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting/

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