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I have a soft spot for small businesses that offer homebaked goodies. My childhood years was spent helping out my mom at our Sally’s Home Bake Shop. The Christmas season was also the busiest and most profitable month for us. Seriously, we could not even sit down in our living room and instead of partying, I was busy wrapping cakes and making pretty bows. So much cakes around us. As I strolled along Powerplant Mall’s Baker’s Dozen at the Concourse level , I felt like I was transported back to my childhood days.

If you haven’t been there, the Bakers’ Dozen is an avenue of mouthwatering home-baked desserts and pastries, open weekends till December.

I think the bakers’ fair is a good venue to buy homemade goodies for friends or relatives or even for your noche buena or holiday dinners. Here are a few that I visited and sampled.

1. Bohemia Cakes and Pastries- Chocolate Lava Cake or Biscotti

That cake would cost around 10,000 pesos but it depends on the customer’s choice

Biscotti- a mix of white Chocolate Almond and Chocolate Walnut Biscotti – large box is 550 pesos for 40 pieces while medium box is 300pesos for 20 piecies

They have more baked goodies like the Chocolate Lava Cake, Fudgey Walnut Brownies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cinnamon Sugar Cookies, Double Chocolate Chip Cupcakes, Spinach Artichoke dip.
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Bear with me while I am still posting non-filipino restaurants or supplies. I am still on vacation right now. Today I visited one of the must-see sights in Missouri. At the Northwestern part of the state is a small town called Jamesport. Most Missouri locals know the name Jamesport for two things: the antiques and the Amish. I was excited to check out this largest Amish settlement in the state. Currently there are around 150 families living in the rich farm land of the area. From what I know their religion forbids any reliance upon technology, so they do not use electricity. I saw that most homes have propane tank outside their homes.

My first stop was the H & M Country store where they sell spice, food supplies and many dried processed foods. From afar it looks like a modern grocery store, but when you take a closer look at the items on the shelves, you’ll realize that you’ll never find these interesting homemade goodies outside this town.

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