PLYMOUTH Keegan and Yilin Yee started with $25 in their pocket when they came to their first farmer s market in Weymouth with a few croissants, sticky buns and cupcakes. When they got home they saw a review on their Facebook page from a customer that said: This double chocolate croissant was worth the two-hour drive from Cape Cod.
Ever since, Keegan Kreations has been known for their croissants and the Yees grew a a steady stream of customers. My wife and I run a commercial kitchen, and we went from 10 croissants produced to like a thousand croissants that we sold out every week, Keegan Yee said. We even had a line of people waiting to buy our croissants every weekend, no matter what farmers market we went to.
Michael and Jess Anderson were looking to try a new recipe one night when they came across the French macaron, one of the most difficult cookies to bake from scratch.The couple enjoys cooking their meals and baking bread from scratch and loves a challenge, so they tried it; and failed horribly. It s an extremely difficult cookie to make and definitely the reason why nobody else does it, Michael Anderson said.
The French macaron, not to be confused with a macaroon, requires a very specific technique and can be a stressful process, as we see every season in The Great British Bake Off. The meringue has to be a certain thickness, the oven the perfect temperature and the air has to be dry, which means on humid days the cookies risk not rising.