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Welcome Melissa to La Phemme Phoodie!
Melissa is the baker behind Cupcake Friday Project, a sort of test-kitchen-meets-nanobakery. Melissa bakes approximately 3 weeks out of the month, bringing in goodies for her taste testers and receiving their feedback in an effort to prepare to open her own bakery in the next 2-3 years.
I’m a baker, something that runs in my blood from BOTH sides of my family. My great grandmother Emma taught my mom the importance of every scrap of pie dough, while my Gramma Betty taught me how to make snickerdoodles, chocolate chip cookies and lemon meringue pie during my summer visits to her home in upstate NY. I’ve made lemon AND lime curd by hand, can my own jams and marmalades (yeah, I know that’s not baking), can bake cookies in my sleep and have made a number of cakes and cupcakes. But pie? Real fruit pie? Before the summer of 2010, I had never made one.
Now, my husband Ray can make a mean apple pie, with a light and buttery crust. When the Collingswood Farmer’s Market had its first ever peach pie baking contest last year, he encouraged me to enter the contest, taking on the role of sous chef and crust-maker extraordinaire. I hunted through recipes, taking a little from one and more from another, and came up with something we thought would wow the judges.
It’s a year later and the peach pie contest is back again at the Collingswood market (this Saturday, Aug. 6 at 9:30 AM). We have a few new tricks up our sleeves for this year’s pie, but I wanted to share with you my first fruit pie, the Cardamom Lavender Honey Caramel Peach Pie.
Click here for Melissa's recipe.
