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GreAt baking
Great baking starts with the best ingredients. Chef Mark's baked goods are created with all natural ingredients like butter, cream, eggs, real vanilla, fresh fruit and high quality flour. All of the recipes have been lovingly refined to ensure only the best product is produced for your family or event.
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Mark Bridge, also known as Cookie, is Escoffier trained, a state registered Cottage Baker as well as a certified food manager. Mark has extensive experience in the restaurant industry, including Perkins Restaurants and Bakeries. Baking has been a lifelong passion (especially the consuming part). A current project has Mark acting as baker for the National Park Service, Grant - Kohrs Ranch National Historical Site to contemporize the handwritten recipes of Augusta Kohrs. He even acts as an instructor and provides classes in artisan bread, sourdough and Dutch oven baking. He enjoys baking competitions and his pies are regular award winners.
You may have seen him talking about chuck wagon history on the television show Common Ground or preparing a Dutch oven meal on Chef In The House. Mark is also an antique dealer and specializes in culinary antiques. |
A pie baking contest now and then can be fun and an opportunity to try out new recipes. Pies have been entered in both double and single crust categories with the following results from the last five competitions.
1st place for double crust - Caramel Apple Pie
1st place for double crust - Country Peach Pie
1st place for double crust - Bumble Berry Pie
1st place for single crust - Banana Cream
1st place for single crust - Bakewell Tart
2nd place for single crust - Tarte au Fruit
The county fair can be fun too with Open Class entries garnering 1st and 2nd place ribbons for Bread and Butter Pickles, Strawberry Jam, Whole Wheat Buns.
1st place for double crust - Caramel Apple Pie
1st place for double crust - Country Peach Pie
1st place for double crust - Bumble Berry Pie
1st place for single crust - Banana Cream
1st place for single crust - Bakewell Tart
2nd place for single crust - Tarte au Fruit
The county fair can be fun too with Open Class entries garnering 1st and 2nd place ribbons for Bread and Butter Pickles, Strawberry Jam, Whole Wheat Buns.
The Cottage Baker - Uncommonly Good Baking
Custom baking for the Park Rapids, MN area.
610 Gilbert Avenue South, Park Rapids, MN 56470
218-732-3123
Cottage Food Producer Registration #20168674
Cottage Baking - These items are homemade and not subject to state inspection.
Custom baking for the Park Rapids, MN area.
610 Gilbert Avenue South, Park Rapids, MN 56470
218-732-3123
Cottage Food Producer Registration #20168674
Cottage Baking - These items are homemade and not subject to state inspection.
