Fall is here!!!

So Sunday the girls and I decided to do a baking project!! We decided on caramel apples!! Oh they where so good and so easy. No you guys pipe down out there – they are easy. I have a great cheat on how to make great caramel and chocolate apples. The girls went to the mountains to pick our apples, but you can by yours at a roadside stand or grocery store. At the grocery store they have in the produce department a package of caramel circles. For the chocolate just buy regular chocolate chips or candy chocolate. On the caramel package it says to warm the apples with the caramel on them, but I skipped that step. I find that the warm of your hand and gently spreading the caramel over the apple worked well for us. Then after the apple had the caramel attached to it we dipped our apple in melted chocolate and rolled it around in nuts!! Take a look at the picture doesn’t that look awesome. It tasted so good. Now if you wrapped it in a nice cellophane bag with a bow – what a nice teacher gift!! Most stores sell these for $5.00, but you’ve made 5 for $5.00!! Go us!

Yummy Caramel Apple

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Don’t forget if you need a gift for that some one that has everything buy a Purple Gift Certificate!! What a sweet alternative to the boring gifts stand by!!! We also have little gifts for your kids teachers just a little something to say Thank You for caring for my child.

The staff of The Purple Kitchen would love to take this time to say ” Merry Christmas and may God bless your New Year. We also want to thank all our guest for making 2008 a great year!”

I know this time of year everyone gets excited about baking. So I thought I would pass along some tips for your baking season. These tips are for before you even start your baking process.

• Read through your recipe to familiarize yourself with the steps of the recipe.
• To save time pre-measure your dry ingredients.
• Don’t forget to pre-heat your oven (I’ve made this mistake a couple of times)
• Follow your recipe carefully and remember you can over mix cookies. When mixing cookies you want to mix them just until the wet and dry are combine and some what smooth. When baking a cake you do want to beat air into the batter to help it rise, but if you beat it too long you will beat the air out of the batter and end up with a flat cake.
• Be sure to have plenty of baking pans to make light work of baking all those cookies. For cakes be sure you have the right pan size to ensure your cake has as much height as it needs.
• When your goodies are in the oven this is not the time to take on another project!!!! Stay with your oven or near your kitchen so you can hear the timers going off and be able to smell your goodies.
• Store baked goods properly. Did you know that if you put a piece of bread in the container with you cakes or cookies that it helps keep them moist? 
• Last but not least make baking fun by getting the kids involved or you and your sweet heart make a night of baking Christmas present. You may be surprised how this may become a tradition!!!

We hope you enjoy this beautiful time of year and I truly wish you all HAPPY BAKING!!

WE WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 6:00PM ON CHRISTMAS EVE – HOWEVER WE WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 25 UNTIL JANUARY 3RD. This is our week to restore The Purple Kitchen and our family so that when we see you in 2009 we have rested faces and great ideas for you. 

LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR THANKSGIVING

11-26, 12:00 pm – 11-27, 2:00 pm

This year we are offering to cook Thanksgiving Dinner for you! Come in and order your dinner today. We have a whole turkey dinner that feeds 8-10 people ($99.95) and we are offering a ½ dinner that feeds 4-5 people($79.95). The following is what will come with your dinner:

Turkey with gravy

Cornbread Dressing

Mashed Potatoes

Green Bean Casserole

Praline Sweet Potatoes

Cranberry Chutney

Rolls

Please call if you have any questions. We will be open on Thanksgiving day for dinner pick ups from 9:00 to 1:00pm. All dinners will be paid for in advance and we will schedule 10 dinners for Thursday. If you would like to pick up just sides please call and ask about those options