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<\/a>Keith and I just\u00a0paid a visit\u00a0to\u00a0the Walker House<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>for the opening day of its bakery.\u00a0 For now, it will be open on Saturdays from 8 AM until noon but orders can be made and picked-up during the week.\u00a0 The place was abuzz.\u00a0 There were\u00a0a lot of\u00a0items to choose from:\u00a0 elephant ears, pasties, muffins, cookies, loaf breads, peanut cake bars, donuts, coffee cakes, blueberry pie, caramel apple rolls, cupcakes, sheet cakes, and many more.\u00a0 We enjoyed some coffee and a few bites of strawberry cream cheese cake.\u00a0 I ended up chatting with Brooke Garrison, who was filling up the shelves with more treats.\u00a0 It turns out she was the assistant baker.\u00a0 She invited me up to the kitchen to meet head baker, Lisa Govier.<\/p>\n Lisa was busy packaging up some pasties when I got in.\u00a0 She looked like a very happy woman.\u00a0 I liked her right away.\u00a0 Prior to working at the Walker House Bakery, Lisa\u00a0ran and owned L & M\u00a0Bake Shoppe in Darlington for eighteen and a half years.\u00a0 Before that, she had a lot of experience working as a cook at various restaurants in the area.\u00a0 She credits her switch from cooking to baking to a woman named Cora Rice (well known to a lot of people in Mineral Point) at the Redwood restaurant (now Zian’s Chinese restaurant on Dodge St.).\u00a0 Cora baked at the Redwood while Lisa worked as a line cook.\u00a0 After Cora retired, Lisa was asked to take over the baking duties.\u00a0 After working as a baker at the Redwood for a couple of years, the opportunity in Darlington came up.\u00a0 Now she will be at the Walker House Bakery with the support of Dan and Kathy Vaillancourt.<\/p>\n Cream Cheese Coffee Cake<\/em><\/p>\n While we were talking, Lisa took out a peach bundt cake from the oven and poured on some glaze spiked with a\u00a0few glugs of\u00a0peach liqueur (her not so secret ingredient anymore).\u00a0 I asked if she had children and commented that they must have their favorite birthday or other occasion\u00a0cakes that she has to make every year.\u00a0 Lisa said, “Yes, for the kids, aunts, uncles, friends, grandparents.\u00a0 Everyone!”\u00a0 with a big smile.\u00a0 Well, I said, please add me to\u00a0your list for my birthday in April.\u00a0 Cheers to The Walker House Bakery<\/a>!<\/p>\n![\"walkerhousebakery1\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/walkerhousebakery1.jpeg\")
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