I apologize for this ridiculously short post. Packing and stressing about this move have just gotten the better of me lately. I hope to do a much more in-depth project and post this week. For now, this will have to suffice.

This past weekend was the fourth annual Here Comes Your Weekend Parking Lot Blowout in the parking lot adjacent to Surly Girl Saloon. I’ve volunteered the past four years, and this year one of the organizers, Erin Moore, asked me to bake some breakfast goodies for the set-up crew.

Because they were such a hit at Comfest, I decided to bake the Pear Coffee Cake Muffins again. They’re super easy and I can make them start to finish in about forty minutes, which is good when you have to be at an event at 10 a.m.

Here’s the one sad, lonely photo I took of the muffins. I should have taken pictures of people eating them, but I was worried that would make those lovely volunteers uncomfortable:

They went over very well, especially for the first couple of volunteers who got a still-warm muffin.

I have no clue what I’m baking this week. I’m planning to bake on Wednesday, so I guess I need to make a decision within the next two days!

This past weekend was the Community Festival, otherwise known as Comfest. It’s an annual music/art/food event that takes place on the last weekend of June in Goodale Park. Every year, my husband, Rob, and Joel Treadway of Cringe.com team up to run the Comfest Band Merch Booth, a centralized location where bands who are playing the festival can drop off their merchandise and have it be sold. All proceeds go directly back to the band.

It takes more than a few volunteers to keep the booth running smoothly (and to give Rob, Joel and I a break to catch bands or get food). So this year I decided I would bake goodies for the openers, who get the nasty task of hauling everything from the shelter house where it is stored and making it look presentable in the tent.

Sadly, I did not take any photos of my food preparation, as it was happening at roughly 8 a.m. and I am not fully awake at that time of day. But here are the photos of the finished products:

Friday – Blueberry muffins

Made with fresh blueberries.

Saturday – Pear Coffee Cake muffins.

The original recipe in Martha’s book for these was Plum Coffee Cake muffins. She mentions that you can substitue any fresh berry for the plum, so I thought I’d make cranberry muffins. But when I got to the grocery store, I couldn’t find a fresh cranberry to save my life. I did see some nice looking pears though. So I got those. These seemed to be the favorite of everyone the whole weekend (a select few people got to sample all three baked goods over the weekend).

Sunday – Lemon Ginger Scones


I started this one Sunday morning and then got to the part of the recipe where it mentions you should freeze the scones once they’re formed for ‘at least two hours or overnight’. Seeing as how it was 9 a.m. and we needed to be out the door at 10:15 a.m., that wasn’t going to happen. I froze them for thirty minutes instead and it seemed to work out just fine. These were really good, although I would recommend a tall glass of milk or a hot coffee to go with them.

This weekend I’m doing another cupcake decorating event for kids at my work, so I’ll be baking Red Velvet Cupcakes and Vanilla Cupcakes. It’s a Fourth of July theme, so I thought the Red Velvet would be a nice touch. I may end up baking something else as well, if we get invited to any BBQs or parties.