Pauper’s Candles are at Azalea, Handpicked Style in Sandpoint, Idaho

June 22, 2015April 13, 20161 Comment

Brooke Deccio owner of Azalea with Pauper’s Candles

Pauper’s Candle Company is excited to announce that Azalea Handpicked Style in Sandpoint, Idaho is caring our candles. Azalea is a cute, eclectic boutique owned by Brooke Deccio that is located at 322 N. 1st Ave in downtown Sandpoint, Idaho Azalea Handpicked Style is a woman’s thrift and consignment clothing store and is open Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm.

Pauper's Candles features at Azalea in Sandpoint, Idaho

Pauper’s Candles featured at Azalea Handpicked Style in Sandpoint, Idaho

Azalea is caring a variety of Pauper’s Candles. The candle scents that you will find at Azalea are:
Grandpa’s Pipe     Mango Papaya      Che Bella                   Coconut
Ocean Breeze       Basil Sage Mint     Tomato Leaf               Blackberry Sage
Dirt                       Lettuce    Leather                       Fresh Cut Grass

If you ever want to know what is new at Azalea Handpicked Style, take a look at its Facebook page. Brooke posts new items several times a week.

We love having our candles at Azalea and know that you will too.

Sold Out :)

June 10, 2015Leave a comment

We SOLD OUT of our Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake!

Thank you to all my customers!

Last weekend at my Farmers’ Market in Sandpoint, Idaho, I sold out of my Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake. I was so excited. It has taken a little bit for people to know that I am selling some “Homestead” fresh baked goods along with my candles.

Krista at Sandpoint Farmer’s Market

I even had people ask if I had more or if I was out before I could write on my chalk board that I sold out. I think that I am going to make a sold out sign to put on the board whenever this happens. How cute will that be!

Next week I am going to bring some more Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake along with my Fudge Brownies. I will blog about these in a future post.

Also, I have enjoyed seeing people who have purchased our candles last year and are buying more and also giving them as gifts to their friends. We are encouraged and are thrilled that you are enjoying our candles!

Again, thank you 🙂

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake at the Market

June 5, 2015June 4, 20151 Comment

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake by the slice.

I came across this recipe and love it. I love lemon tasting food and this recipe delivers. It not only has lemon juice in the cake and glaze, but it also has lemon zest in the cake to give it that extra lemon zing. I used fresh organic lemons for my juice and zest. Nothing but the best I say! I have been taking this cake to my Farmers’ Market and have been getting a very positive response. I am excited and it is always fun to serve good food.

When making this recipe I used my farm fresh eggs, along with organic non-GMO white wheat flour, organic cane sugar, non-GMO baking powder, organic lemons and zest, kosher salt, raw milk from an Idaho small dairy that is licensed to sell raw milk, and blueberries I picked and froze myself. Mmmmmm!

The Original Microplane Classic Series ZESTER. Made in the USA!

When I first made the Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake, I used an actual hand grater that has the big and small holes and grated the lemon peel with the small holes to make my lemon zest. This did not make a fine lemon zest. I went online and found a review about a “Zester”. I thought to myself that this tool would be perfect to make nice finely grated zest. I bought it and it works great! The “Zester” is called The Original Microplane Classic Series Zester. It is made in the USA, which is a bonus in my book. I bought it off of Amazon. This is an amazing little tool that no kitchen should be without. I look forward to using it when making my Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake.

My 1930’s -1940’s J.K 30 Juice King. What a great Juicer!

A few years ago at a yard sell, I found a vintage J.K. 30 Juice King. My husband and I use our hand juicer often. I used this juicer to extract the juice from my lemons and it worked awesome. I love the old hand tools. Any juicer will work just as fine as our Juice King.

Baking Tip: When baking this Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake, I start checking the cake about 5-10 minutes before the allotted time. I like to pull the cake out of the oven just as soon and my toothpick inserted in the middle is clean or a tad on the doughy side. This makes for a nice moist cake.

Freezing the Cake: I have frozen the pound cake as well and it tasted as wonderful as eating it the some day I baked it. To freeze the cake, I wrapped the cake in parchment paper and then put it in a zip loc bag. When I wanted to serve the cake, I pulled it out of the freezer the night before and let it defrost on its own. The only thing I noticed was that the glaze is moist and not as hard as it was before freezing it. This I minor to me and I would freeze my cake again in the future.