Ebay Purchase - Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook

Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, published in 2012. Homespun desserts and rustic breads from the best little bakery in the South. The book was written to celebrate the shop's 10th anniversary and offers 150 recipes. There are many awesome photos filling the pages of completed dishes and the author's amazing collection of vintage cookware and bake ware. The baker's tool kit offers suggestions for spices, pots, pans, gadgets and utensils, plus next to the recipes are tips and notes on preparation, serving, etc.

Breakfast is first with cinnamon sugar doughnuts, mocha oatmeal muffins, ham & cheese pastry puffs, guava sweet cheese turnovers, baked eggs with grits & ham, granola bars and hot chocolate mix, followed by Coffee Cakes, Quick Breads and Sweet Yeast Rolls which offers Irish soda bread with black currants, pecan chocolate espresso coffee cake, Southern corn cakes, brown sugar banana bread, blackberry buckle, a lemon loaf and cinnamon sticky buns.

A few of the selections in Cupcake and Cakes include sweet potato cupcakes with caramel cream cheese frosting, red velvet cake, ginger cake squares, chocolate heaven, coconut cake with coconut buttercream, a deep dark flour-less chocolate cake and a brown sugar bundt cake with a butterscotch glaze. Pies, Cobblers, Crisps and Tarts contributes bourbon pecan pie, buttermilk chess pie, blackberry cobbler, plum tartlets, salted caramel apple pie and a strawberry rhubarb crisp.

Puddings and Custards deliver bourbon bread pudding, baked vanilla custard, summer fruit trifle and plum custard, while Cookies pitches lavender shortbread, sugar cookie tarts, snickerdoodles, oatmeal coconut cookies, almond crunchies and molasses ginger cookies.

The are so many delicious options in Brownies and Bars ~ Creole brownies, PB& J bars, drunk blondies, cherry pie bars and pumpkin crunch bars with Confections doling out vanilla marshmallows, pecan brittle, caramel popcorn balls,, truffles and brown sugar fudge.

Lastly, Savories provides herbed tomato chive tarts, bacon jam empanadas, cheddar pecan rounds, candied rosemary pecans and brown sugar tomato jam.

Here's a photo of the Chocolate Heaven cake I made for my birthday - it was amazing! I froze a few leftover slices (the cake was huge!) to eat later. It thaws well and still tastes delicious.