Carol and the bakery

These days, many customers are stopped in their tracks, mesmerized by the tantalizing aroma wafting through the air.

What are they smelling? Our new, freshly baked apple crisp donuts.

Carol Davis, our baker, spent the past few months perfecting our recipe. She thinks that she may have found the ultimate donut recipe. The recipe doesn’t create an ordinary cider donut. Our

donuts feature little apple-cinnamon crispies. When the cider is ready, we’ll be mixing up apple crisp cider donuts, too. If you’ve already sampled our donuts, you may have noticed that they were a little sticky. We’ve solved our sugar problem and now have a non-sticky, absolutely delicious donut for you!

Carol grew up on our home farm, Stony Hill Gardens. She never envisioned that she’d some day be the baker at Stony Hill!

“I like it,” she says of baking. “It’s fun. When I’m done and we sell out, it makes me happy.”

Carol is delighted that her customers enjoy her many baked goods. She spends 20 to 25 hours per week in the bakery, which formerly was a milk house for the dairy farm that used to occupy the farm. Her hours in the bakery will steadily increase as the days shorten and fall arrives.

Carol has added several new items to the bakery. New breads include whole wheat, cinnamon-raisin and herb and garlic. The herb and garlic bread is made with rosemary, thyme and garlic and is proving to be extremely popular. She makes hearty 20-oz. loaves and “wonderful tasting” French bread. She also bakes several organic breads—sourdough, garlic, raisin walnut and multigrain. The organic breads sell for $4.99 a loaf.

She has also added several new pies—cherry crumb, black cherry, pineapple upside down, apple cranberry, apple raspberry, strawberry and very berry . Some pies, such as pumpkin, pecan and mince, are seasonal. “I can take orders for whatever you like,” she says. She makes pies fresh daily. We sell whole and half pies as well as slices.

Carol now also makes a new tea bread: zucchini bread. “It’s getting a good reception,” she says.

Coconut pecan cookies round out our new cookie offerings. Cookies sell for 55 cents each or 3 for $1.50.

Carol and the rest of the Stony Hill family care about freshness and how we package our products. That’s why we started offering half pies, because we understand that not everyone can (or wants to!) eat a whole pie, delicious as they may be.

Stop by soon to sample one of Carol’s baked goodies. Be sure to tell her what you think!