My family really does it up big. Especially for the 250th this year. As you can see, it gets a little crazy but lots of fun. This is what I got carried away with instead of croissants on Saturday. Costumes, team competitions in duck derby, axe throwing, slip & slide kickball, volleyball, shooting, relay races, cornhole, bingo, rib cookoff, fireworks and lots of catching up on our families. Lady Liberty is my 87yr old Mama! She is the matriarch of this wild & crazy family!

Let me tell you what that means. Pillowy dough, rolled soft and slow. Inside, peaches roasted down till they’re sweet and jammy, folded through with warm cinnamon. Brown butter running under all of it, nutty and deep, the kind of smell that pulls the whole house into the kitchen before you even call anybody. A brown butter cinnamon crumble baked crisp and golden across the top. Then ribbons of buttercream frosting drizzled over the warm rolls, settling down into every fold. And fresh peaches, scattered right on top, bright and juicy against all that spice. Peach cobbler and a cinnamon roll, together. A piece of Carolina summer you pull apart with your hands. I’m a Southern boy. Down here, peach cobbler is a staple and a delicacy both at once, and taking something I grew up on and folding it into a cinnamon roll we all know by heart, well, that’s my prerogative. That’s what we’re baking this week inside Crust & Crumb Academy. If your mouth is watering right now, good. That’s the whole point. Pull up a chair. ~Henry⭐️🔥

This is a 75% SD with yogurt whey, instead of water, and blueberries. They do not distribute well for me with coil folds, so I’m going to start laminating them in.

Hi Bakers, I decided to do a little baking bread today. I missed 2 bake along and wanted to keep my skills up. I bake whole wheat hamburger buns and whole wheat sandwich everyday bread 🍞.

Having never tried spelt, I decided to add 10% sprouted spelt to my sandwich bread, and I really liked it, i smelled great, and had a mild nutty flavour. It took a long time to reach windowpane, but that was baker error, I knew to add vital wheat gluten, and forgot it. I also substituted whey(yogurt) for the water.