Fall Fruit Festival

Strawberry Pucker

More pumpkin spice

Vanilla with rum frosting


Chocolate cherry

What a great weekend this has been! We ended up having a nice, relaxing weekend with family after a crazy week! K.B's did 19 dozen cupcakes this past week and amidst that we had car trouble which put the cupcake making schedule off. I ended up doing 15 dozen of the cupcakes from start to finish in one day. It was a long day! I know for most bakeries, 19 dozen is nothing but for a operation with one oven and one girl, that's a lot of baking. I am definitely not complaining! I wouldn't have it any other way. Well, I could have done without the car trouble but that's neither here nor there.

For some reason, Fall gets me really excited about fruit. I want to eat apples with every meal. Have any of you had Asian pears? If you haven't, go to your local grocery store, buy one and come back and tell me how much you loved it. They sell them at Costco and my girls and I go through at least a case per week. Yeah, they're that good. Anyway, I have never baked with them. I don't even know if they would be any good for baking but I do know they are delicious to snack on.

I do know some other fruits that are fantastic to bake with and that gave me my idea for the weekly special for the sweet shoppe. I am doing a Fall Fruit Festival!! This week I am offering a half dozen of various fruit flavors (up to 2 flavors per half dozen). The flavors are: peach cobbler, caramel apple, cinnamon crumb, cranberry spice and chocolate cherry. If you know anyone in need of fruity cupcakes this week, I am their gal. Well, I suppose I had better get going. I will leave you with this question for today...what is your favorite fruit to snack on and what is your favorite fruit to bake with?