Flour Girls & Dough Boys

I know everyone is feeling a little stress right now because of the financial crisis on Wall Street.  To lighten the mood a bit, we decided to offer “Bailout Brownies”!  They taste like $700 Billion! 

To show we are doing our part, a portion of every sale of Bailout Brownies will go to help the poor Wall Street firms get back on their feet (because we pay taxes, everything we sell will help with the bailout!).

Enjoy your brownies knowing you are doing something good for the country

From Kamian Coppins

My mom is a baker, a cook, a genius.  Flour Girls & Dough Boys is her brainchild and it’s a big success– it has many fans, myself included.  However, despite our physical similarities (I can’t count how many times I’ve been mistaken for my mom, even in my early teens), I did NOT inherit her baking abilities.  That was apparent from a young age.  She has a recipe for shortbread chocolate chip cookies that was famous even before the bakery opened.  My first time ever making them, I mistakenly poured two teaspoons of salt into the mixer instead of one half teaspoon.  It was quite a joy trying to quadruple the recipe to make the cookies taste as delicious as they should. 

Kami Coppins

Ever since then I have had so many cooking and baking mishaps I couldn’t possibly count them all, which is the reason I was a bit wary when my mom asked me to join her pastry crew while one of her full-time employees was away.  However, since I could tell they needed the help and I needed the money, I consented.  There were many things that didn’t surprise me about the job– I disliked being there are eight a.m. every morning in the summer, absolutely everything was delicious, and it was best to try to avoid the freezer.  There was one thing that did surprise me, though: I wasn’t terrible at it!  I was whipping out cream puffs and cookies like a machine (but a machine that makes delectable, hand-crafted pastries) and I could even make ganache as well as my mom!  “Maybe my abilities as a baker are finally revealing themselves!” I thought… until the infamous day that I made molasses cookies.

The recipe for molasses cookies is a little different than almost any other recipe I had used to that point.  Instead of “4.6 kg flour, .03 kg vanilla, .9 kg butter,” the recipe has a fairly long list of spices with amounts such as “2 tbsp, 2 tbsp, 2 tsp.”  To most people, interpreting that would be easy.  Two tablespoons, two tablespoons, two teaspoons.  Duh.  Unfortunately for my baking-impaired mind, there is little-to-no difference between “tbsp” and “tsp.”  There I was, happily adding in spice after spice to my dry-ingredient mixture when a certain “tsp” caught my eye.  I glanced back and forth between the “tsp” on the recipe and the “tbsp” in my hand and panicked.  I didn’t know what to do.  I couldn’t tell anyone because surely they would make me throw the whole thing out and that would be an enormous waste of ingredients and time. 

Luckily, I pride myself on being a fairly intelligent person when it comes to almost anything besides baking, so I quickly found a solution.  I ran down the list of spices, determined which was supposed to be two tablespoons and which was supposed to be two teaspoons, matched the color of the spice in the bottle with the color of the spice in the mixture (thankfully I hadn’t actually mixed anything yet) and scooped out the majority of the extra spices.  I then completed adding the remaining ingredients, carefully checking five times over the amount stated in the recipe, mixed it with the butter and other wet ingredients, and prayed for the best.

I tasted the molasses cookies– do not worry, they tasted fine, as delicious as all the ones I had tasted before.  But I must say I was glad when the full-time baker returned and I did not have the stress of ruining the mouth-watering pastries that Flour Girls and Dough Boys regularly produces.  I love the bakery, and what I love even more is that other people do the baking.

I just have to say thank you. I have a been a customer for almost as long as you have been open. Every time I go in to your bakery, no fail, I am greeted with a warm smile from some of the kindest people you will ever meet. You are all very genuine. I appreciate this having worked in the customer service field for years and knowing how sour people can be. Some of you even know my name and greet me by it when I come in, and that was only after a few visits! Thank you for being so great, and thank you for being so amazing at what you do!! LOVE YOUR SOUP AND SANDWICHES!!! LOVE EVERYTHING!! Thanks!

Three things about the Great Chili Quest:

1.  We are retiring our old chili recipe.  For all those that loved it, don’t despair.  The recipe will soon be on this website and you can make it at home.  Also good to know - it is super simple.

2.  What do you like in chili?  Beefy or Tomatoey?  Lots of meat or lots of beans or lots of other stuff?  Spicy or easier on the pallette?  What makes a great chili in your mind?  What makes a bad one?  We need lots of comments here, PLEASE

3.  We are looking for a new recipe.  If you have a favorite recipe and everyone raves about it, send it to us.  If your chili recipe is selected, you will win a $50 gift card and bragging rights!  Please submit your favorites on this site (or if it is super secret, please send it to flourgirlalpine@yahoo.com).  We will announce a winner in the next few weeks.

As many of you know, we have our roots at the Thanksgiving Point Farmer’s Market.  We started selling our artisan breads there last year even before we had our own bakery.  We are back!  In fact, we are at three Farmer’s Markets every week.

Tuesdays: 3-7 pm; West Jordan Farmer’s Market. 

Fridays:  3-7 pm: Thanksgiving Point Farmer’s Market

Saturdays:  9 - 1 pm;  Provo Farmers Market (500 W 100N)

Come join us in the fun and pick up some fresh fruits and vegetables at the same time!

“Iced tea please”

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“You should use virgin olive oil in place of the vegetable oil.  It would make it a lot more healthy”

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“Bring back tomato bread please!!”

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“We were excited to be able to get meat pies since the Yogurt Parlor closed but disappointed that they were so small.  We had to order 2 a piece for lunch and they are too high priced for as little as they are.”

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“Think about rotating your soups.  We’d like to try all but only go here Wed or Sat.  Thanks”

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“Please paint the brick top orange to match your cute frames.”

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“I have a suggestion concerning sausages - I love sausages but I found for health reasons I enjoy turkey sausage - so if could also provide turkey for your breakfast sandwiches along with your regular sausages that would be cool.  From a customer that stumbled upon your establishment.”

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“If you could make your brownies with cream cheese just like your peanut butter and mint brownies - that would rock!!  You rock anyway!!

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“Kalamata olive bread.  Please!  When/if you have it, please call me.”

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“The chairs are hard to get out of as you have to push them so far out and there is no room.”

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“You guys really need t-shirts for great, cheap advertising!”

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“Pumpkin/ chocolate chip muffins.  Banana muffins!”

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Please “comment on the comment”.  We have an active comment box at the bakery and we are committed to publishing all the comments: good, bad, or instructive.  For us to know the importance of the bad/instructive comments, we need you to add your thoughts. Thanks!  We are lumping all the praises together in one post.

“So nice and accomodating.  Delicious food as always!  Really fast this time.  A huge thumbs up.  :-)”

“This place is great.  This is my first time but everything was superb.  I’ll come back again.”

“I love your food.  You’re cool”

“Loved it!  Thanks!”

“Your bacon cornbread is the best I’ve ever had!”

“You guys are awesome!”

“Flour Girls and Dough Boys is delicious!  Your BLT is great and your shortbread chocolate chip cookie is amazing!”

After many customers trying to open our door after 6 p.m., we are finally open later.  We are now open until 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday.  So come join us for dinner sometime.  We promise to make it a fun treat!

New hours:  M-F 7:30 am - 8 pm; Sat 8:30 am - 8 pm