Ballstead Bread & Creamery

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🌾 Sourdough Starter Class 🌾What a wonderful evening in Eden!Last night a room full of curious minds gathered around flou...
06/23/2026

🌾 Sourdough Starter Class 🌾

What a wonderful evening in Eden!

Last night a room full of curious minds gathered around flour, water to learn how simple ingredients become something truly remarkable. Together we mixed starters, asked questions, shared experiences, and discovered that sourdough doesn't have to be complicated or intimidating.

One of my favorite parts of teaching is watching people realize that they can do this. Sourdough isn't reserved for professional bakers—it's something anyone can learn with a little guidance and practice.

Thank you to everyone who attended, asked great questions, laughed with us, and was willing to get their hands a little floury. I am grateful for the opportunity to share what I've learned and to help others gain confidence in creating wholesome food for their families without becoming overwhelmed.

And this is just the beginning! We'll be following up with a sourdough bread-making class where we'll put those starters to work and learn how to turn them into beautiful loaves of bread.

May your starters grow strong, your kitchens be filled with good food, and your tables be surrounded by people you love. ❤️

— Jessica
Ballstead Bread & Creamery
Simple Ingredients. Honest Flavor.
325-365-0180

☀️🌾 SUMMER MENU IS HERE! 🌾☀️At Ballstead Bread & Creamery, summer means fresh flavors, simple ingredients, and a little ...
06/23/2026

☀️🌾 SUMMER MENU IS HERE! 🌾☀️

At Ballstead Bread & Creamery, summer means fresh flavors, simple ingredients, and a little extra fun in every bite.

This season's menu is filled with handcrafted sourdough loaves inspired by backyard gatherings, summer gardens, tropical sunshine, and campfire memories.

🍍 Tropical Sunrise – caramelized pineapple, toasted coconut, and brown butter

🔥 Backyard Sunset Stuffed Jalapeño – roasted cream cheese stuffed jalapeños baked into naturally fermented sourdough

🍫 S'more Summer – graham cracker-inspired sourdough with marshmallow, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate

🍓 Vanilla Bean Strawberries & Cream Dream – sweet strawberries and cream cheese folded into artisan sourdough

💜 Sweet Summer Bloom – lavender and honey

🍋 Lavender Citrus Sunkiss – lavender, lemon, and white chocolate

🫐 Lavender Summerberry Bliss – blackberry, lavender, and cream cheese

And don't miss our seasonal favorites:

🧁 Tropical Paradise Muffins
🍍 Caramelized pineapple, toasted coconut, and white chocolate

🍯 S'more Summer Spread
Fluffy marshmallow butter inspired by classic campfire s'mores

✨ Where Wholesome Meets Indulgent.

Fresh-milled flour. Natural fermentation. Simple ingredients. Honest flavor.

Message or text 325-365-0180 to reserve your favorites before they're gone!

Anger is an ingredient that never does what you want it to do.When I'm baking, every ingredient affects the final loaf.A...
06/22/2026

Anger is an ingredient that never does what you want it to do.

When I'm baking, every ingredient affects the final loaf.

A little too much salt changes the flavor. Too much flour changes the texture. The wrong ingredient can alter everything.

Anger works the same way.

We often convince ourselves that anger will fix something. That it will make someone understand, bring justice, change a situation, or ease our frustration.

But anger rarely produces what we hope for.
Instead, it tends to leave behind bitterness, strained relationships, harsh words, and regrets we wish we could take back.

That doesn't mean we never feel angry. Even Jesus experienced righteous anger. But Scripture reminds us to be careful what we do with it.

Just as I wouldn't knowingly add an ingredient that ruins a loaf, I don't want to allow anger to become an ingredient in my heart.

God's wisdom, patience, and grace produce far better fruit.

Sometimes the strongest thing we can do is pause, pray, and let Him work before we react.
Because grace accomplishes what anger never can.

📖 "Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires."
— James 1:20

🤎 Prayer:

Lord, when frustration rises in me, help me respond with Your wisdom instead of my emotions. Teach me to be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry. May the ingredients of my life be marked by grace, patience, and love. Amen. 🌾✨🙏

🌾 From Grain to Grace

🌿🍋 Lavender Citrus Sunkiss Sourdough 🍋🌿Some flavors are expected.This isn't one of them.Our Lavender Citrus Sunkiss Sour...
06/22/2026

🌿🍋 Lavender Citrus Sunkiss Sourdough 🍋🌿

Some flavors are expected.

This isn't one of them.

Our Lavender Citrus Sunkiss Sourdough begins with a long-fermented sourdough dough made from simple, organic ingredients. Into that dough goes a delicate touch of culinary lavender, bright lemon, and creamy white chocolate.

The lavender doesn't overpower. The lemon doesn't shout. The white chocolate doesn't make it overly sweet.

Instead, they come together in a way that's surprising, balanced, and uniquely delicious.

Each loaf is naturally fermented, hand-shaped, and baked to develop the rich flavor and texture that only traditional sourdough can provide. The result is a loaf that's equally at home beside a morning cup of coffee, toasted with butter, or enjoyed as an afternoon treat.

A little floral.
A little citrus.
A little sweet.

And entirely unexpected.

Lavender Citrus Sunkiss
🌿 Hint of Lavender
🍋 Bright Lemon
🤍 White Chocolate
🌾 Organic Ingredients
💲14 per loaf

A surprising artisanal delight.

🌾📘 Follow Ballstead Bread & Creamery on Facebook for new flavors, weekly availability, and fresh-baked updates! 🥖❤️

To place an order:

📱 send us a Facebook message

call/text: 📞 325-365-0180

Our full menu is in a pinned post on our page.

🍫🔥 S'MORE SUMMER SOURDOUGH 🔥🍫A summer campfire favorite reimagined as artisan sourdough.This seasonal loaf begins with a...
06/20/2026

🍫🔥 S'MORE SUMMER SOURDOUGH 🔥🍫

A summer campfire favorite reimagined as artisan sourdough.

This seasonal loaf begins with a graham cracker-inspired dough made from organic flour, fresh-milled hard white wheat, active sourdough starter, honey, molasses, vanilla bean, cinnamon, and browned butter. The dough is naturally fermented, allowing flavor and texture to develop slowly over time.

Then comes the fun part...

🍫 Chunks of dark chocolate

🍫 Chunks of milk chocolate

🔥 Toasted marshmallow pieces

🧈 Browned butter

🍯 Honey

🌿 Vanilla bean

Instead of chocolate chips, we use chopped dark and milk chocolate for richer flavor and melty pockets of chocolate throughout the loaf.

The result is a handcrafted sourdough that brings together graham cracker, chocolate, and toasted marshmallow flavors in a way that's nostalgic, indulgent, and uniquely Ballstead.

Pair it with our new S'More Summer Spread (Marshmallow Butter) for the full experience.

✨ Perfect with morning coffee ✨ Delicious toasted ✨ Amazing as a dessert bread ✨ A fun summer treat for the whole family

🍞 S'More Summer Sourdough — $14
🧈 S'More Summer Spread (Marshmallow Butter) — $2 half stick

Because summer memories deserve more than ordinary bread. ❤️🌾🔥

🌾📘 Follow Ballstead Bread & Creamery on Facebook for new flavors, weekly availability, and fresh-baked updates! 🥖❤️

To place an order:

📱 send us a Facebook message

call/text: 📞 325-365-0180

We have drop off points in Ballinger, Coleman, Eden, Brady, Santa Anna, Bangs, Brownwood, Abiline, Miles, Rowena, San Angelo, can add in any surriunding communities as well AND... new location in Sweetwater. Pick up also available.

❤️ Simple Ingredients. Honest Flavor.

🌾 From my kitchen to your table. 🌾Rows of fresh sourdough cooling, specialty flavors packaged and ready, flour freshly m...
06/19/2026

🌾 From my kitchen to your table. 🌾

Rows of fresh sourdough cooling, specialty flavors packaged and ready, flour freshly milled, ingredients carefully chosen, and plenty of time invested in every loaf.

Could I skip steps? Sure.

I could use just regular flour instead of adding in fresh-milled. I could add cinnamon without smoking it, onions without caramelizing them, jalapeños without grilling them, or butter without browning it.

But those extra steps matter.

At Ballstead Bread & Creamery, I believe wholesome food should be made with intention. It takes more time, more effort, and sometimes a little more patience—but the flavor is worth it.

Thank you for supporting a small business that values simple ingredients, honest flavor, and doing things the old-fashioned way. Your support allows me to keep sharing wholesome, handcrafted breads, muffins, butters, and other treats with families, coworkers, employees, neighbors, and friends across our communities.

❤️ A little blessing from my kitchen to yours:

May your home be filled with peace, your table with laughter, your heart with gratitude, and your days with reminders of God's goodness and provision.

🌾📘 Follow Ballstead Bread & Creamery on Facebook for new flavors, weekly availability, and fresh-baked updates! 🥖❤️

To place an order:

📱 send us a Facebook message

call/text: 📞 325-365-0180

We have drop off points in Ballinger, Coleman, Eden, Brady, Santa Anna, Bangs, Brownwood, Abiline, Miles, Rowena, San Angelo, can add in any surriunding communities as well AND... new location in Sweetwater. Pick up also available.

❤️ Simple Ingredients. Honest Flavor.

The other day, I was running a quick errand when my car wouldn't start.What should have been a simple trip turned into a...
06/18/2026

The other day, I was running a quick errand when my car wouldn't start.

What should have been a simple trip turned into a tow truck ride—headed in the exact opposite direction of home.

And at home sat my sourdough starter.

Waiting.

Growing.

Overflowing.

As I sat dealing with the inconvenience, I couldn't help but think about the dough, the orders, the deliveries, and the possibility that I might have to start over and reschedule everything.

Sometimes life has a way of interrupting our plans.

And if I'm honest, I spent part of that day worrying about things I couldn't control.

When I finally made it home, I found something totally expected...

My starter had risen so much that it had overflowed the container and touched the table.

What had been quietly growing all day could no longer be contained.

And then something else happened.

The customers I was worried about disappointing responded with kindness, grace, and understanding. 🤍

No frustration. No complaints.

Just grace.

Standing there cleaning up overflowing starter, I realized God was teaching me something.

We often think of overflow as having more than enough money, time, or resources.

But some of the most beautiful overflow in life isn't material at all.

It's grace.

It's patience.

It's kindness extended when someone would have every right to be upset.

Definitely something we need more of in this world.

Just as a healthy starter eventually overflows because it's alive, hearts that have been touched by Christ eventually overflow too.

Not because life is easy.

But because His grace is at work within us.
"From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace."
— John 1:16

May our lives be so full of God's grace that when interruptions come, when plans change, and when inconveniences arise, what spills over onto others is not frustration—but grace.

🤍🌾🍞Simple ingredients. Honest flavor. Made with love. Baked for you.

🌾🍞 From Grain to Grace - Overflow

06/18/2026

🌾☕🧈🧁 Just another day at Ballstead... 🧁🧈☕🌾

Some days look a little different than others, but they all start with gratitude, time in God's Word, a good cup of coffee, and a willingness to do the work set before me.

Today's list included:

📖 Bible study
🐔 Farm chores
☕ Morning coffee
🍳 Breakfast with my handsome husband
🧈 Making handcrafted butter
🔥 Smoking cinnamon for upcoming bakes
🧁 Filling muffin orders
🌾 Sprouting wheat
🌬️ Drying wheat
⚙️ Milling fresh flour
📦 Unpacking new baking pans
🥖 Planning the next round of baking

It's easy to see the finished loaf, muffin, stick of butter, or bag of flour and miss all the little steps that happen behind the scenes. But every task plays a part in bringing wholesome food from grain to table.

From feeding sourdough starter to smoking cinnamon, sprouting wheat, and milling fresh flour, there's a lot of work that happens long before a loaf ever reaches the oven.

I'm thankful for the opportunity to work with my hands, spend time in God's Word, serve my community, and provide food that is both nourishing and enjoyable.

Now if you'll excuse me, there are still a few things left on today's list. 😊❤️

🌾 Simple Ingredients.
❤️ Honest Flavor.

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