Shopping OC LOOKING GOOD
Text by Megan Antosy.
Visit Baked by the Ocean at 1046 Asbury Avenue to find treats that somehow manage to taste even better than they look.
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BAKED BY THE OCEAN Freshly made dinners and desserts line the shelves in this Asbury Avenue bakery
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OU FACE a difficult decision when you step into Baked by the Ocean. Sugar cookies in the shapes of apples, leaves, and pumpkins, beautifully decorated for the fall and holiday seasons. Cakes that look almost too pretty to eat. Pumpkin cheesecake with a marble swirl. Candy apples, macaroons, and hot chocolate bombs. Liz Ellison-Saunders, owner, is gearing up for the fall and holiday baking seasons. “We offer eight to ten kinds of pies for Thanksgiving,” said Liz. This year that includes pumpkin, caramel apple, cookies and cream, traditional pecan, cranberry cherry pie, and peanut butter pie. They make shaped butters, too as well as sides. “We offer turkey butter centerpieces and flavored butters. There’s a great mac and cheese that we’re really known for as well as mashed potatoes, stuffing, and sides. Some of their flavored butters include a butter with cheddar, bacon, and chives as well as a honey butter with pumpkin spice. “We have the Presidential blend of butter which is orange, sage, and cranberry,” Liz said. After Thanksgiving, they make a hasty transition into the Christmas season. 40 OCNJMAGAZINE.COM
HOLIDAY 2021
“Christmas is our cookie season. We do Christmas cheesecake. We make royal iced sugar cookies that we can’t keep in stock. We have our famous shortbread that people ship home to their families constantly.” Another one of their holiday specialties is their yule log. “Yule log is a chocolate sponge cake. It’s rolled into a log with a swiss meringue buttercream,” said Liz. Baking for Liz is a mix of two passions – making things taste good and making things look pretty. “I started baking with my grandmother and I have a history in the arts. I enjoy making things taste good. Then I found that I could make them beautiful too,” said Liz. Liz started cake decorating while she was a stay-at-home mom. “I started cake decorating 12 years ago. Then, I took cake decorating jobs at almost every high-volume bakery in South Jersey. Once there was a turn key operation, I seized the opportunity in 2018,” which became known as Baked by the Ocean, Marmora. Three years later, Baked by the Ocean opened its doors on Asbury Avenue... its second location. It sells a little of everything. “The cannolis, strawberry shortcake, shortbread cookies, and the raspberry apricot pinches are the most popular,” said Liz. “We offer celebration cakes for all occasions as well as pastries.”
