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Kronuts, Only In Raytown
No Shortcuts at Edible Creations Edible Creations opened in October 2012 and is putting Raytown on the map. The Pitch and 41Action News discovered there is only one place in the Kansas City metro area to find croissant doughnuts and that’s right here in Raytown. The cronut rage started May 2013 in New York and swept the country showing up in bakeries not made by the
Kronuts with maple bacon toppings
originator, Dominque Ansel, who threatened legal action to protect his trademark, Cronut™. Meanwhile, Taylor Holmes, owner of Edible Creations, has perfected her version of a croissant-doughnut. Her “kronuts” are made fresh daily with croissant dough using real butter and cut into square donuts that are fried and glazed. They are sold plain or garnished with cream cheese, chocolate, cherry and maple bacon flavorings and now constitute about 75% of her business. But Edible Creations has a whole lot more to offer like mouth watering cookies, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, pies, tarts and gorgeous custom cakes for any occasion and tiered wedding cakes that look much too beautiful to eat. Customers have a choice of rich, silky Italian meringue butter cream and American butter cream frostings or fondant made fresh – not ready made from a bucket. Taylor assures her customers that all frostings all made with real butter and that no hydrogenated vegetable shortenings can be found in her kitchen. She offers an extraordinary list of cake flavors from chocolate ganache to red velvet to strawberry butter cream and more.
Do not be tempted to underestimate this quiet spoken 22-year old pastry chef. She knows what’s she doing having trained under the tutelage of her father, well-known Kansas City pastry chef, James Holmes. Taylor didn’t need a culinary education to become what she always wanted to be because she grew up working with her father elbow to elbow for years creating edible art and sumptuous pastries and confections. It’s in the family genes. Her brother has a bakery in New Orleans and her sister is a chef at a country club in Houston. In March of this year, Taylor and her staff of four received their most formidable wedding cake order: two sixtiered wedding cakes, one for the church and one for the reception and 800 cup cakes. Her most challenging wedding cake involved creating a logo crest with two flanking lions in May. She has even traveled with her supplies and equipment to create wedding cakes on site for family and friends in Wisconsin and Colorado. Edible Creations does not serve lunch but is fully prepared to fulfill box lunch orders Continued on page 2
Kronuts garnished with German chocolate and cream cheese toppings
Conductor Bob Cochran Retires From The Raytown Community Symphonic Band Bob Cochran is retiring after serving as the Raytown Community Symphonic Band’s conductor for countless performances over the past nine years. Cochran retired in 2006 after serving twenty-six years as the director of bands at Raytown South High School. His passion continued to take root as he extended his services to become the director of the Raytown Community Symphonic Band sponsored by the Raytown Arts Council (RAC). After retiring from teaching, Cochran resumed his love for country-living and purchased a farm near Adrian, Missouri, where he’s earned a reputation raising alpacas and tells many stories about a prize lama who serves as a guard for the very small alpacas. While the farm and a morning teaching stint in a nearby town occupied much of his time, Cochran found time to drive to Raytown every Thursday night for band rehearsal and many band concerts performed at venues like The Groves, John Knox
Sung to the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Lyrics by Alyse Stoll, Raytown Arts Council
Village, and the Hilton Inn. In 1998, Cochran began directing the pit orchestra for the RAC’s summer Broadway musicals starting with Music Man then Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, Oliver,
Mame and the list goes on. We will see his familiar “batonaction” this summer as he promises to be on the podium conducting the pit orchestra for RAC’s Broadway musical, Kiss me Kate, on July 18,19, and 20.
Here we are with the band gang. Here we are with the crowd. Bob waves his baton like a magic stick Notes whiz right by and we don’t miss a lick As we go to bat for our band chief He’s made another home run. See it’s 1 -2 -3----he retires From a job well done!