Behind the Bakers of Scrumptious

Lemon Bar

~Scrumptious~ Baked Goods, by a & k.  

So who are we?  I am the “a” which stands for Amy, part owner and baker for a new local bakery called Scrumptious.  The “k” stands for Katie, my business partner and baker in creating tasty treats in sinful flavors.

We are two mom’s of five young children, all of whom are 4 years old and under.  Crazy you say?  We get that a lot! How do you do it, run a business and take care of your kids as well?  Our answer, we manage it well.  We are very organized, you have to be. We each have our own strengths and accomplish tasks accordingly, we are honest with each other and both strive to do the best job that we can.  For us, it’s also our “adult” outlet.  We love being mom’s, but even mom’s need a little break once a while.  Scrumptious allows us to be creative, get our hands dirty (on our terms) and at the end of the day we are proud of the products that we have produced.

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Mini Muffin

           

We have been in business for nine months now, Scrumptious began in late September of 2010.  We have come a long way since the idea for starting a bakery had popped into our heads last Summer.  Actually, it was Katie’s brilliant idea, and I am forever grateful.  It was something that we both really needed to do for ourselves.  Katie came over with her two girls one morning, and as our 3 toddlers played, we held our two babies, and drank our coffee (another favorite thing of our’s) as Katie posed the question...... “so I was thinking, we should start a baking business.”  Without hesitation, I said, “O.k.!”  We immediately got out the paper and a pen and started brainstorming.  Thus, “Scrumptious” was born.  However, coming up with our name took us a while as it was more difficult than we had thought, we actually had many other details planned out first.  We had lists of names that we had come up with and kept coming back to.  We researched meanings, googled them, looked up words in the thesauruses, until we set our hearts on Scrumptious!

Salted Caramel Fudge Brownie

            We describe ourselves as a specialty baked goods company, a “boutique” bakery, with a classic feeling and beautifully presented items.  We pay careful attention to details and decorations with the custom options always available.  We also pride ourselves in using the best ingredients such as; sweet cream butter, Cacao Berry cocoa powder, Meyer lemons in our signature lemon bars, Madagascar bourbon vanilla and Saigon cinnamon, just to name a few.  Our categories of selections include; Breakfast items such as Muffins (available in 3 sizes) and Scones, Specialty Bars (our signature items), Cookies and Injected Cupcakes (also available in 3 sizes), and now introducing Wedding Cakes (available in an array of flavors, fillings and frostings)!  We deliver, offer Gift Certificates and Gift Wrap options, accept credit cards, and invite you to follow us on Facebook at “Scrumptious” and “Like” our Page.   

Allow us to treat your next Tea Party, Bridal or Baby Shower, Birthday Celebration, Office event or Wedding, Scrumptious style.  And, remember to taste a bite of something simply Scrumptious today!

2 Female Bakers + 1 HUGE mistake = Lesson Learned

Mocha-choco-latte

Note to self: When driving one of the largest SUV’s with 3 dozen freshly frosted cupcakes in the trunk, do not take u-turns!  Why not you ask?  Because you may just end up with a bakery box smeared in frosting.

I am one of the Scrumptious owners and bakers, Amy.  My partner, Katie and I ventured off to a private pastry class in Redondo Beach at the South Bay School of Cooking to broaden our techniques when it comes to cupcakes.  “Injected Cupcakes” are a new category for us to carry on our Menu of Baked Goods, so we decided to take some classes and get a schooling on how to better offer these cupcakes to our clients.  After 3 hours of perfecting new frosting recipes, tasting, practicing new piping styles with various frosting tips and experimenting with different decorating decor and sprinkles, we were satisfied.  At least for one night.  Along with a wealth of Bakers tips and helpful advice in the world of pastry making given by Chef Annette, Katie and I boxed up our finished products. 

Queen of Hearts

We ended up with three cupcake boxes, as beautiful as can be!  Including, one dozen “Valentine” decorated cupcakes (as it was the week prior to Valentine’s Day), one dozen Birthday Confetti decorated cupcakes, and a variety dozen of Specialty Cupcakes (including the Mocha-choco-latte and Chocolate Suede cupcakes).  Very proud of what we had both accomplished we loaded the bakery boxes into the back of Katie’s SUV, got in, and headed back for home.  But not before Katie had to flip a u turn on Artesia Blvd. to head back to the 405 freeway.  As the u turn was complete, a crashing sound of bakery boxes colliding rang out.  Katie and I looked at each other, wide eyed.....oh no!  What do we do?  Pull over or keep going?  Wondering if ALL 36 cupcakes had been ruined we decided to keep driving.  After all, if the goods were destroyed, there wasn’t much that we could do about it at that point.

Chocolate Suede

Sure enough, after arriving home and waiting for the rear door to open on the SUV, the boxes were seen strewn across the back.  Only to find that nearly all of the cupcake masterpieces that were created over the course of three hours, now seemed to resemble a puddle of frosting within the bakery boxes. 

C’est la vie!  In other words, “it” can happen to anyone, no matter how perfect you are or think you may be.  Your cupcakes may crash and frosting can smear across the back of your SUV too.  ;)

This brought another topic to our attention, our free local DELIVERY.  (Since Scrumptious does not yet have a store front for you to come in and shop from, one of our business bonuses is that we will bring your order directly to you!)  So, we needed to make sure that this transportation disaster did not happen again to either of us while making our deliveries.  Katie had the brilliant idea of securing a “holding area” within each car to make sure that our product stays safe while in transport. Now both SUV’s are set up correctly and we at Scrumptious can make safe deliveries while protecting our precious cargo!