Hey luvs,
I am happy to hear everyone loves the idea of Socca Sunday! I’m already looking forward to this Sunday ; )
Lori and I never really showed much about what we do at Twin Cakes, so we hope you do not mind us sharing. We have shared how we became bakers here and here.
Our Fridays are pretty busy. We start our day just like every other day with our morning workout. Ever since we started doing Insanity, a little over 2 months ago, we started to do our workouts first thing. We just love getting them done because we used to do our workouts later in the day, which things would happen and some workouts had to be put on hold.
Green Smoothie for breakfast
After our workouts, we start prepping for a long day/night of baking. We pretty much spend our Friday in the kitchen – baking, cooling, icing, cleaning, packing, wrapping, counting, etc. We usually end up getting around 2-3 hours of sleep, as we get up around 4am on Saturday mornings to start getting the cars packed for the market. We have gotten better with doing more packing the night before, but somethings we like to do right before….quality purposes 
Although with the heat and humidity it sure does a number on our products. Gluten-free vegan products do not do well in the heat….or very cold temperatures. If you have ever baked gluten-free baked goods, you will know that every little thing can alter the product. We try our best to control what we can ; )
First round...a variety of muffins, carrot cake, and brownies
Lunch Break
Buckwheat with onions, squash, zucchini, tahini, and fresh spices
Lori enjoying her lunch while we discuss our to-do-list!
Our very popular brownies…we bring a variety of flavors! They are rich, fudgy and delicious ; )
A new item: Un-baked Pistachio Coconut Bar…these went quick!
Another top item - SCONES! We bring about 3 flavors each week.
Top Seller – Individual Carrot Cakes! These are my personal favorite!!!
As we continue to bake into the night, we do start to crave something sweet. It can be hard to work around all these sweets sometimes ; )
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
A Perfect Meal!!
Our little treat after a long day….standing on your feet can be pretty tiring.
Then we do some more clean-up, paper work, packing, then off to bed for a few hours. As I mentioned we try to get at least 3 hours.
Remember when we mentioned we need help with breakfast ideas to have before our market. And we normally have been enjoying some type of avocado pudding, quinoa, or a mighty breakfast.
This past Saturday we decided to change it up. Since it has been so hot out, we have been making ice cream a lot lately. We have been testing them for our cookbook. Then I remember seeing Gina enjoying some protein ice cream via Heather. I have also made an avocado protein pudding inspired by Heather before.
So we decided to give the protein ice cream a shot for our breakfast before the market! We just added some Vega to our already made ice cream. It was great, even at 4:30 in the morning!
Lori enjoying her breakfast!
We loved it! Our bodies seem fine with ; ) happy dance
Okay time for the markets. Yes we do two markets, Lori is at Carrboro and I am at Durham. *note – these pictures are from my market.
Everyone setting up.
My table:
I love being able to sell out of my car. It makes it easier to reload things when they get low. Also, un-pictured is a cooler behind my table.
To be continued….
Other news:
We are running a sale on Twin Cakes Bakery. FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75.
And do not forget to follow Pure2raw and Twin Cakes on Facebook for special deals and offers.
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Thank you for sharing this behind the scenes look at your bakery. I love the face that you guys have taken charge of your life, and are doing what you love. Kudos!
By the way, I can’t wait until your cookbook comes out! Since going gluten free, my baking has been riddled with FAILS!
Thanks Nicole! Oh yes we had tons of failures when creating our gluten-free baked goods.
Love hearing about the bakery and farmers markets!
Those individual carrot cakes look great, as do all the baked goods!
Thank you Little Bookworm!!!
Oh man, I got tired just reading this post. Your Friday sounds exhausting, but I can tell you both love what you do.
I think the carrot cakes would be my favorite too – bet it would taste delicious crumbled over some maple cinnamon protein ice-cream.
Hope you both have a wonderful week!
Thank you Heather!! I think carrot cake and maple cinnamon protein ice cream would be amazing ! Yes we love what we do, even if it makes us tired ; )
Oh yum! I wish you ladies were at my farmers market! I don’t think you’d be able to get me to leave!
Can’t wait for the cookbook!!!
COMING OVER ON A FRIDAY! hehe. i can be a taste tester too!
We will keep that in mind Katie ; ) We love extra tasters in the kitchen!
yes i know how heat and cold can affect gluten-free things. and with no eggs it is trickier too.
really wish i was there to get a scone!
seeing all of those goodies makes me wish i lived closer even more
everything looks AMAZING as usual!
so glad you liked the protein ice cream – heaby is a genius
xoxo
Thanks Gina! Wish we lived closer too
i sure would like to hear what you gals have to say about insanity…
Allie, that post is coming soon. We are trying to get all our thoughts together on the program ! Stay tuned!
Everything looks incredible! I guess eating all this wonderful food makes up for the lack of sleep?
Evergreen, thanks! HAHA the food does help, we have done it for so long it does not bother us as much, well most of the time, xoxo
You only get 2-3 hours of sleep on Fridays?!? You girls are such troopers!
MarathonVal -Yep being a baker requires long hours, but it is fun!
I love reading and learning about your businesses! It’s all so interesting! So, for the markets, how many of each item do you bake/ bring? I’m sure it depends but on average? It must be a great deal of work preparing! A lot of baking for sure!
Lori, the numbers vary of how much we bring. One is the weather and two if there is something special going on at the market, oh and the what month it is. Since we have been doing this for 3 years, we have learned what months get slow. It varies every week, crazy! Hard to guess sometimes how much to bring.