What's on Your Mind

[Jay]

Besides having a full time job, I have two other side jobs. My first side job is as a baker. I sell baked goods because I love to bake. My brand is called Seriously Brownies. Started out baking for fun and brought to office. Didn't expect people wanting to buy them.

Initially Seriously Brownies was meant to focus on selling brownies only. But I have demand for cookies and cakes as well. So I decided to sell them too. But brownies are my hot seller.

However, I'm beginning to rethink on what to sell and focus on. I would like to scale down and focus on brownies only. To go back to the root to sell different types of brownies. 

The main reason why I would like to cut off cookies and cakes of my menu is because I don't have a lot of time to spend as I work full time. This week I received an order from a customer to prepare four trays of brownies. I was happy but was dead tired after that. Additionally, getting rid of cookies and cakes would scale down the cost as well.

Seriously awesome

I baked a little during the first few months of the pandemic, a couple of cakes or Blondies, but not regularly, because it’s all sweets. Blondies are brownies with white chocolate and since I love white chocolate I went for it. The results were quite disappointing. Flat, dense, greasy slices that only tasted good fresh from the fridge. Unfortunately I can’t recommend them, or my baking skills weren’t up to the challenge. Have fun.

I've done a few blondies before but my family and friends prefer brownies because brownies are 'chocolatey'? They just prefer chocolates. So anyway I did an experiment. I baked blondies as usual, sliced them into 2inch x 2inch squares and tossed them back in the oven under a very high temp for 5 mins. Basically toasting them out. In the end, I got crispy blondies. They taste almost like crispy/soft cookies. I served to my parents. Crispy blondies kicked brownies off the top position.