Bakedbyfaith

12/14/2020

Omg- I just had to snap a pic before dusting the edges.

The spices lend a naturally golden tone to these pillows of deliciousness, and just LOOK at all those peppery flecks! Red bird's eye chilis from my friends over at Knick Knack Farm in Comer (I've saved these for a special occasion!), fresh cracked black pepper, green jalapeño, just seriously so so good!

These have *just* the right amount of kick for a grown up treat, and I seriously canNOT wait to make the obligatory smore with the end pieces!

12/13/2020

Christmas train birthday cake.

Chocolate cake topped with vanilla butter ream, MnM's, KitKat, candy canes, star anise shortbread, handmade mint white chocolate wheels, vanilla royal icing, handmade edible snow, popcorn ball steam, and SOOOOO much edible glitter!

Such a fun cake to design and create!

09/19/2020

First cake of the season 💗

Covid may have knocked us down for a bit, but we're back up again!

Wild and Free rich chocolate cake glazed with housemade fudge syrup, frosted with vanilla bean buttercream, and topped with hand painted vanilla shortbread cookie animals, and vanilla+almond fondant details.

As always, all the chocolate and cocoa we use is fair trade certified.

09/02/2020

Pumpkin spice, chai, ginger, apple cinnamon, molasses... YUM!!

Whether you need some hand-painted cookies, a warm and buttery spice loaf, specialty pie or cheesecake, or a big birthday cake, send us a message to get your autumnal treats!

03/31/2020

Always a favorite, these biscuits are life!

Sprouted whole grain flour, fresh made butter and buttermilk, fresh made mayo, real lard, locally made organic cheese, homegrown bird's eye chili and jalepenos, homegrown garlic, onion, Himalayan pink salt, and more fresh butter.

Loaded, cheesy, spicy, fluffy, and HUGE! (That full size casserole pan only fits 8 sitting on their side 🤣) Peppers optional!

Pair these babies with fried eggs for breakfast, turkey for lunch, or barbeque for dinner. So, so yummy!

03/29/2020

These might just be the perfect cookie for quarantine. Kickback's OG Cali Rise Coffee, Wilderness Family Naturals' raw cacao shortbread cookies, dipped in rich dark fair trade chocolate and coffee, topped with a bit of gold edible glitter. A little sweet, a little Joe. So, so good.

03/29/2020

Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Drops

Sweet. Salty. Gooey. Crispy.

These start by grinding fresh peanut butter from roasted peanuts, honey, and salt. After draining out the excess oil, the fresh nut butter is mixed with freshly made butter, pink salt, molasses, raw sugar, flax, sprouted whole wheat flour, vanilla beans, sea salt flakes, and baking powder.

Once they've cooled, I pour in piping hot salted caramel, sprinkle with crushed (homemade) honey pretzels, sea salt, and brown sugar.

Sweet. Savoury. Umami. All the best things, rolled up in one (giant) cookie.

03/28/2020

Oh my goodness! I can't believe it's been FOUR years since I formulated the Nutella cookie recipe!!

These sold out every week at the Farmer's Market last year.

Of course, Nutella is made with palm oil, so instead my recipe starts with toasting hazelnuts and processing them with cacao nibs and cocoa butter.

Then, combine that freshly made hazelnut spread with farm fresh duck eggs, hazelnut and tigernut flours, Himalayan pink salt, and ground chia and flax. Sprinkle the tops with turbinado and pink salt and bake.

Seriously SO good!

03/28/2020

Is there anything better than a fresh oatmeal cream pie?

These ones are made from sprouted flour, molasses, handmade butter, vanilla beans, freshly ground warm spices, farm fresh local eggs, raw sugar, organic root vegetables, and rolled oats.

The buttercream is made from freshly made butter (yes, we really do churn our own butter!), freshly ground powdered raw organic sugar, and freshly ground cinnamon.

At a solid 3.5 inches, these are some serious cookies! Of course, I had to set one aside for each of my kids too 🥰

03/27/2020

These are absolutely the best tea biscuits ever!

Feel free to leave the rose petals out for a simpler flavor profile.

03/25/2020

Thank you all for your kind messages and generous hearts!

After taking into account the fact that restaurants are being encouraged to remain open, all of your messages requesting delivery options, and the graciousness that each of you have shown over the last three weeks, I have decided to open in a limited capacity.

I will be offering a few specific items listed below, and they are available for driveway pick up or drop-off only.

If you choose driveway pick up, you will notice a table with your order in a bag with your name. if there is another person picking up their order at the same time as you arrive, please wait until they have gotten back in their car to collect yours. All deliveries will be carefully packaged in boxes.

If you have a birthday coming up, please reach out about a family-sized cake or our Social Distancing cupcake experiment! We will happily deliver a Mini 4 or 6 inch cake to your home and then deliver cupcakes, brownies or cookies to local friends so that you can celebrate together on Zoom!

Finally, I will be offering paint your own cookies, baking mixes, and small sets of decorate your own cupcake activity kits to keep you and the kids busy and happy.

Send me a message if your family needs some yummy stuff! I am looking forward to baking for you all again 💗

03/20/2020

It's Thursday night, and I'm not in my kitchen mixing and baking. 😳

So, to ease the sting of not baking the ADORABLE Winnie the Pooh themed honey cake that had been originally ordered, I whipped up an old beloved recipe 😍

I'm about halfway done with my downloadable illustrated recipe book, and this perfectly 🍑 -y pie will be one of them!

With just 6 ingredients, 1 hour, and 1 pan (literally, not even a bowl!) this delicious pie is perfect for quarantine! It's so easy, my 2 year old did most of it!! 💕

03/13/2020

Out of an abundance of caution, we will temporarily suspend all orders until further notice.

All clients who have paid a deposit for March has already been refunded, and all clients who have placed a request for an order over the next month will be receiving a more detailed email this afternoon.

In the meantime, I am finally compiling a nutrient dense cookbook for children and their parents! It will be available as a PDF download later this week. Hopefully, this will give you and your loved ones some delicious and fun activities to keep you busy while we all practice social distancing.

Wash those hands and stay healthy!
Love, Faith

03/10/2020

Edible tulip bouquet. Hand-painted tulips made from vanilla bean and lemon shortbread cookies and fresh lemon flavored royal icing.

02/28/2020

Who says you have to use sugar cookies to make hand painted treats?!

These watercolor dinos are painted onto oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookies after baking merengue onto them.

So yummy, and so so cute!

02/26/2020

When all your clients want King Cakes and masq cookies for Mardi Gras, and you're a homeschooling mom of 3, you let the kids make their own King Cake! Sure, they used storebought butter, whole grain flour, a bread maker, skipped the pants, and definitely ate sugar off a spoon, but they did it!

While most of my clients opted for very traditional flavors, my kids opted for Orange+Cranberry+Dulce de Leche. Weird, but it works!

Pro tip- when letting kids help in the kitchen, a standard tea cup holder exactly 1 cup of ingredients. Plus, the handle is the perfect size for little hands. Keep one for dry goods and one for wet.

02/22/2020

Paint Your Own Cookie Sets are always SO fun!

These ones are perfect for tucking into Easter Baskets or for setting out on the kids' table!

Made with natural food coloring, sprouted whole grain flour, farm fresh eggs, hand whipped whipped butter and raw cane sugar, these sweet eggs pack a nutrient dense punch too!

Flavor choices are apples+honey, carrot cake cookie, or vanilla bean.

02/22/2020

Paint Your Own Easter Egg Cookie Sets

Available for PreOrder Now.

Sets contain 3 hand painted Easter Egg cookies and one palette cookie. Flavor choices after vanilla bean, carrot cake cookie, or apple+honey cookie.
Shipping available.

02/17/2020

Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Tonight I'm contemplating the beauty that is compassion as I finish up these sweet bubblegum flavored cookies topped with strawberry royal icing. Hand-painted with love in a fun and whimsical coloring book style, I'm sure these cookies are going to brighten up a few faces tomorrow!

02/16/2020

Mister rabbit, how do you do ?
Mister rabbit, I took a habit from you.
Mister rabbit, I made a friend.

These sweet little hand painted yummies are a delicious vegan lemon cookie topped with vegan royal icing and natural colors.

So fun to make these!
rcookies

02/16/2020

Strawberry cake made with summer squash and both fresh and freeze dried strawberries and laffy taffy flavored banana cookies.

Sooo yummy!!

02/13/2020

Hershey's, Nestlé and Mars Are Still Using Child Labor on Cocoa Farms.

All of the chocolate we use is *ALWAYS* fair trade.

Why? Because buying chocolate that isn't fair trade pays directly into child labor.

It matters because they matter. Sure, it's a bit more expensive, but we think the added cost is worth it!

https://achnews.org/2019/06/19/hersheys-nestle-and-mars-are-still-using-child-labor-on-cocoa-farms/

20 years ago, chocolate giants pledged to eradicate child labor, but it is still happening on a wide scale.

02/12/2020

Sneak peek on one of the cutest upcoming cakes!

Hundreds of handmade sprinkles, several tiny containers of edible silver, bronze, and gold, and a custom cake stand will accompany this robot cake! 🤖 🍰

02/08/2020

I am so excited that it legitimately snow today! Our yard is covered in a thick blanket of fluffy white snow perfect for making snow angels and snow people!

When it's this cold outside, our family loves the tradition of enjoying a beautiful cup of healing and warming ciacolatta calda under a warm cozy blanket by the fireplace.

If you like American hot chocolate, this recipe is sure to blow you away! (Especially yummy with one of our Italian iced cookies to dunk or a rich slice of our cinnamon and ginger spiced coffee cake.)

Into a heavy-bottomed saucepan on low to medium heat, pour 2 cups of full fat coconut milk. Whisk in 2 tablespoons of sucanat, 1 teaspoon each turmeric and vanilla bean paste, and 3 teaspoons of arrowroot starch. While the milk and sugar are heating up, chop about a hundred grams of your favorite chocolate. We use because they are both vegan and fair trade certified! Of course, they also taste delicious which is just as important!

Whisk the chopped chocolate into the hot milk and turn the heat off. When it has fully incorporated, pour it into a mug and enjoy!

(For a non-vegan, pantry foods edition that is still delicious, exchange the coconut milk for any milk, use table sugar, and you can exchange the arrowroot starch for cornstarch.)

02/01/2020

Only took one photo because I finished late at night, but these sweet little Winter One-derland cookies are all organic, food due free raspberry, vanilla, (fair trade always!) chocolate, and S'mores flavored cookies!

Our favorite is raspberry! Fresh organic raspberries are oven dried, powdered, then blended into freshly whipped butter. Raw cane sugar, sprouted whole grain flour, and fresh vanilla beans are blended together to create a tart, sweet, crisp cookie loaded with goodness!

Fresh egg whites, hand-powdered cane sugar, and matcha, raw cacao, activated charcoal, and water are whipped to create the colorful and delicious royal icing on top of the cookies.

Finally, the icing is oven dried, then the cookies are individually wrapped and packaged.

01/29/2020

Tie Dye rainbow cupcakes with rainbow swirl frosting and handmade sprinkles overload. Little fondant flower toppers. Kissed with silver edible glitter. Tiny blue and white vanilla chips and cupcake candies.

So much fun!

01/25/2020

When your 6 year old requests a ✌️💚🍕 themed birthday with a pizza cake, you oblige 🤣

Vanilla sponge cake broiled, topped with vanilla buttercream 'sauce' 'pepperoni' and 'cheese'

01/23/2020

Thursday, oh Thursday!

A day of planning, prepping, shipping, and creating. (And napping in preparation for a VERY early morning!)

Creating modeling chocolate and fondant, crafting tiny details, covering cake boards, and cutting lots and lots of sprinkles.

Tonight, late at night, when all the world is icy and cold and sleeping, my kitchen will be warm and bright. I will get up at 2 am and spend the wee hours mixing, baking, stacking, frosting, and decorating. My children will awaken to the smells of sweet vanilla, rich chocolate (always fairtrade!), and Italian Merengue Buttercream.

Most bakers bake up to 5 days prior to pick up which can result in a dry cake. I prefer baking same day so each cake is as fresh as possible!

By the time the sun rises, my refrigerator will be filled with cakes, cupcakes, and brownie-sicles.

And this week, amongst all the other orders, I have one *very* special client- my oldest daughter! She turns six on Saturday, and requested Peace Love and Pizza - Alpharetta for her theme. Stay tuned to see what kind of cake she gets!

01/22/2020

Have you ever had a brownie-sicle?!

These sweet little surprises are made with ethically sourced fair trade raw cacao and Ruby and white chocolates, beautiful local duck eggs, sprouted whole wheat flour, organic coconut oil, organic raw cane sugar, and cellulose based edible gold.

Is it a brownie or a lollipop or a piece of chocolate? Maybe it's all three?

Who knows?! Whatever they are, they make a great little gift for Valentine's Day! These ones are stamped, but custom design is always available! Packaged sets of 3 or 6 ready for pre-order now!

01/22/2020

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so it's time to get those special treats ordered!

Whether you need a bespoke treat for your beloved for a fancy dinner, sweet and silly Valentines for your children to share with their friends at school, or a special I love you treat for your kids to wake up to.

And don't forget, for every order 10% goes to the Sugar Angel fund!

Get your pre-orders in before February 3rd and receive a hand-painted cookie with your order.

01/08/2020

This year, I've joined an amazing program that provides dream cakes to terminally ill children and their families for their birthdays free of charge.

I am SO excited to have the opportunity to create edible works of art for the most deserving clients!

To be a 'Sugar Angel', I'll need your help! I'm currently raising funds for the creation of my first dream cake. I want to be ready when my 'call to action' comes in!

So, for every single order placed in January and February, I'll be putting 10% into my Sugar Angel Fund. For every non-treat order, I'll put in another 5%. So let's get those pizza doughs, sandwich breads, focaccia, biscuits, and buns going!

I'll also be hosting a few bake sales to raise funds throughout the season. Keep your eyes open for those!

Send me a message if you have an event upcoming or need some delicious baked goods for home.

Thanks!

12/19/2019

Phew!

After a marathon few weeks of cocoa bombes, Santa Cookies, cupcakes, and cookie trays, it's time to put up the mixing bowls for the season.

As of now, we are completely booked for Christmas week.

All paid orders will be finished and ready for pickup at your scheduled time. Any currently unpaid orders will not be able to be fulfilled due to holiday time constraints.

Thanks so much for another great season!

See you in the New Year!

12/17/2019

I definitely over filled my teeny mug, and also didn't hear up my milk enough. But it's still so fun!!

Pro tip- use a pot and boil your milk. Not another mug in the microwave. You want your milk piping hot! The milk in this video is just over room temperature so the kids can enjoy it straightaway.

12/17/2019

Do you have a Christmas Grinch to find a gift for?

Our Green Grinchin' White Cocoa Bombe is a delicious and special way to help that two-sizes-too-small ❤️ grow!

Made of fair trade handcrafted white chocolate, marshmallows, edible green glitter, and red sprinkles, this treat us sure to make your favorite grouch grin!

Pour hot milk over the bombe to reveal the goodies inside and stir for a perfect mug of Cocoa. For a grown up twist, add a splash of Irish cream.

$12/piece

12/16/2019

Just wanted to share a video of a winter white hot cocoa bombe!

As always, fair trade, hand tempered cocoa bombed are $12/piece and absolutely worth it!