Creswell Bakery

 I've been wanting to post some pictures from work for awhile, but since I don't take any pictures while I'm working, I didn't have any to post. Today I found these pictures on the Creswell Bakery facebook page, so I thought I would share them. This first one is from the outside and was taken a over a year ago, but it still looks pretty similar. The sign saying we are open five days a week is gone and the plants have changed a little, but you get the idea.

Here are some of the sweet rolls that I spend a lot of time with. Twice a week I make big batches of rolls, about 120 each time. We have four types of sweet rolls: cinnamon rolls, raisin walnut rolls, coconut orange rolls, and hazelnut sticky buns. The two kinds above are raisin walnut and coconut orange. And yes, they are huge.

Here are our two mixers, a 20-qt and a 60-qt. Yes, the 60-qt is huge too. It probably comes up to about shoulder height on me.

Bread, bread, bread! This is good stuff.

This is our large bread baking oven. We just recently started using this to bake a number of our breads and it has been working well.

Here are some more pastries from my side of things. I don't do any bread baking, my job is mostly pastry prep work and then on Saturdays I bake off the pastries for that day.

Here are Brenda and Heidi trying out the bread oven. Brenda is the head pastry baker and Heidi is the owner of the bakery. Brenda is the person I work with the most since we are the two pastry bakers. 

This is our bread baker, Dave. He is up in the front part of the kitchen at the lunch line, none of the three of us bakers spend much time up here except in the early morning when we are using the ovens.

Lots of delicious goodies on display behind the counter in the front of the bakery.

And this picture is from this morning after I finished baking off the pastries for today. Jason, the manager and head chef, made me the special for today for breakfast. On a typical Saturday I usually bake 3 dozen cookies, 4 dozen scones, 1 dozen ham and cheese pretzels, 4 dozen biscuits, 2 dozen muffins, 1 dozen meat pies, 32 danishes, and 68 sweet rolls. I don't actually mix anything up on Saturdays, everything is formed and ready to go so I run everything through the ovens, brushing some with cream or egg wash, and then drizzle things with chocolate or icing and frost the cinnamon rolls. So, there's a little peak behind the scenes. If you are ever in Creswell, come on by!