NEW! Soap For Hope

Hey Guys!  Here is something I have been working on for a while....my new Soap For Hope!  I will donate $2.00 from the sale of these special soaps to a new charity each month.  You can find the soap with me at market...soaps are in special boxes with a special label.    You are buying soap AND making a charitable donation at the same time!  This month I am raising funds for my local Food Pantry at Freeport Community Services!  Help raise some funds!! 

 

 

Star Anise

 

 

Gift Sets Now Available!!

2 NEW Gift set for Holiday gift giving...

 

Shaving Soap Set includes an Enamel Mug with lid, shaving brush and a bar of Casco Bay Soap Co. shaving soap.  Fragrances vary.  $18.00

 

 

Soap and nail brush gift set.   Tucked into a clear takeout container is 1 bar of Casco Bay Soap Co. soap with a wood nail brush. Fragrances vary.  Soo cute for gift giving (or to treat yourself)! $7.00

 

 

 

Look for them at the market and place special orders for them with me at CascoBaySoap@aol.com

At Market NOW!!

 

Holdiay Fragrances!

 

 

Shop ALL Maine Items, Tomorrow!

Etsy Maine Team is having an online Cash Mob to support Maine Small Businesses!  Shop tomorrow November 8th on Etsy and use the search term "maineteam" to filter ALL Maine sellers.  Many are offering special pricing in their shops.

 

Over 700 Maine shops and over 13,000 unique items!

 

 

Shop Early & Often For Best Selection!

Happy Halloween!

Fiber Artists

I'm very happy to be newly pairing up with the super talented Jan of Four Winds Farm in Gorham.  Jan is a Fiber Artist with a small flock of her very own sheep!  She makes the most gorgeous needle felted sculptures such as dogs, cats, rabbits, cows and more.  Needle felting is a way of entangling the fibers together using a sharp needle with burrs.

 

Look at how amazing this is!

 

 

 She also spins yarn AND can spin custom yarn from your pet which then can be knit into a soft sweater or scarf!   She also makes beautiful felted soaps.  This is where Casco Bay Soap Co. comes in.  Jan has purchases some of my soaps and will be felting around them for wonderfully, beautiful felted bars of soap.

 

Please visit Jan's website to see her amazing creations - http://www.fourwindsfarmmaine.com/#!products

BUT I also have been working with Susan of Felt Experience in New Gloucester.   She has been purchasing my soaps for well over a year now and felting them to sell alongside her gorgeous hats, vest scarves and other creations that she makes in her New Gloucester studio.   She felts some soaps for me and I sell them at my markets.  Susan wet felts which is wet felting which is a way of entangling the wool fibers with soap, water and agitation.

Look at this amazing hat she made!

Visit Susan's website to view her beautiful work - http://feltexperience.jimdo.com/

Casco Bay Soap Co. On Instagram!

NEW!  Follow me and my adventures on Instagram!

 

 

Marbled Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies

Oh yum yum!!

 

Marbled Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies?   I have these on the baking schedule this weekend!  How about you?  From Better Homes & Gardens online, picture and recipe credit to them. 

 

 

http://www.bhg.com/recipe/brownies/marbled-chocolate-pumpkin-brownies/?socsrc=bhgfb1023132recipe

 

 

Marbled Chocolate Pumpkin Brownies

Ingredients

• 3  ounces  cream cheese, softened
• 1  tablespoon  butter, softened
• 1/2  cup  sugar
• 1  egg
• 1  cup  canned pumpkin
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla
• 1/2  teaspoon  ground cinnamon
• 1/4  teaspoon  ground ginger
• 1  tablespoon  all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4  cups  all-purpose flour
• 3/4  teaspoon  baking powder
• 1/2  teaspoon  salt
• 6  ounces  unsweetened chocolate, chopped
• 3/4  cup  butter, cut up
• 2 1/4  cups  sugar
• 4  eggs
• 1/4  cup  milk
• 2  teaspoons  vanilla
• 3/4  cup  coarsely chopped walnuts, toasted (optional)

 

Directions

 

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a 13x9x2-inch baking pan with foil, extending foil over the edges of the pan. Grease the foil; set pan aside

 

2. In a medium mixing bowl beat cream cheese and the 1 tablespoon butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the 1/2 cup sugar. Beat until well combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in 1 egg, the pumpkin, 1 teaspoon vanilla, the cinnamon, and ginger until combined. Stir in the 1 tablespoon flour. Set aside.

3. In a small bowl stir together the 1-1/4 cups flour, the baking powder, and salt; set aside.

 

 

 

 

4. In a large saucepan combine the chocolate and 3/4 cup butter. Cook and stir over low heat until melted and smooth. Remove from heat. Gradually add the 2-1/4 cups sugar, beating with an electric mixer on low speed just until combined. Add the 4 eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in milk and the 2 teaspoons vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture just until combined.

 

5. Spread chocolate mixture evenly in the prepared pan. Spoon cream cheese mixture in several mounds on top of the chocolate batter. Using a narrow metal spatula, gently swirl the cream cheese mixture into the chocolate batter. If desired, sprinkle with walnuts.

 

 

6. Bake about 60 minutes or until center is just set when pan is gently shaken. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Use foil to lift uncut brownies out of pan. Cut into brownies.

 

From the Test Kitchen

• Layer brownies between sheets of waxed paper in an airtight container; cover. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

NEW Winter Market For Me!

Find me on Wednesdays as part of the NEW Yarmouth Farmers Market - Winter edition!

 

 

 

Inside "The Log Cabin" located at 196 Main St. in Yarmouth you will find this brand new winter market anchored by the wonderful farmers Sarah of Winter Hill Farm in Freeport and Justin of Deri Farm in North Yarmouth.   I will be there and I have heard a rumor that my friend Paula of Paula C's. Baked Goods will be joining us too. Stop in for wonderful seasonal veggies, farm fresh eggs, Sarah's cheeses and other dairy from her farm and of course, my soaps!

 

More vendors will be joining us, so stay tuned!

 

Follow The Yarmouth Farmers Market on Facebook - Here

 

I start NEXT Wednesday October 30th and the market is from 3:00-6:00.

 

Hope to see you there!!