Doughbelly, I just wanted to say good luck with your new business. What a great idea for you and your mom and your sister. I think it would be good for everyone.

Boy, if I lived close, I'd be stopping in to visit your shop on a regular basis for some of those stuffed strawberries for sure!

ps - I see frozen cheesecake all the time in stores and at Costco, so I don't see why you couldn't freeze a baked cheesecake. (Not sure about unbaked)

Ok, that sounds tooo yummy, I am going to have to try that. I was thinking cannoli filling would be good too, kinda like cheesecake.

chocolateandpeanutbutter...thank you so much....if you're ever in Weatherford Oklahoma...stop by...the stuffed strawberry is my treat..

I bet it is beautiful in Canada!! I've only been there once...to see Niagra Falls from the Candadian side...simply beautiful.

Doughbelly's is going to be the name of the business. That was a HORRIBLE nickname that my cousins gave me when I was just a small child. Over the years, ALL of the male's in my family called me that (even at the age of 44 ) I never once told anyone my nickname...but then when I decided to open the business...and I was trying to think of the perfect name...well.....it just seemed right. So it came out of the skeleton closet....and now I use it... (as Oprah would say "it was a full circle moment". lol.)

susanscakebabies....I agree..I think a cannoli filling would be great in a strawberry... I will have to try it.

i made a key lime cheesecake for my dh for his birthday last week, so i had some sitting in the fridge, and would you look at that! i had strawberries too. so as i was making a batch of chocolate dipped strawberries for a customer, i made her a bonus stuffed one too. it's the one on the bottom right.

lol, then my dh ate all the cheesecake!

Hi Ladies...I have a ? about the whole patent thing...is she trying to get a patent for her technique or what? Like others have said we also have been making strawberries filled with all kinds of things for years....cookie dough, cake and buttercream, fruit salad, banana pudding, etc. We just called them filled strawberries not stuffed. Maybe I'll go file a patent for baking a cake...lol!

From reading her patent application...she is saying that stuffing strawberries is her invention. Hard to believe....

I found a great link for Eminger's strawberries where she gives her cheesecake recipe. Check it out Ladies !!!
http://www.wcsh6.com/life/lifestyle/207/article.aspx?storyid=59203

I'm trying to understand this. There is a video link earlier in the thread of this woman on a tv show demonstrating how to stuff and dip strawberries. She shows how to make them like little brides and grooms. Why would someone file a patent on something, then go demonstrate exactly how to do it on tv so that everyone at home could make their own? Am I missing something?

OMG my mind is running crazy!! Do you guys think this would be a good present for a end of year teacher gift if i made a tray of the stuffed strawberries and some other chocolate covered items I have been racking my brain with what to give them!!

I am really not bringing this up to be catty please don't take it that way. Is there any way to protest or somehow object to this patent? It seems awfully unfair that she can claim to have invented this, be granted a patent, and then rightfully stop anyone else from selling these things.

She did not invent this. She may have a special method for doing it and that's her business but there is NO WAY she can claim that she thought this up before anyone else adn has sole rights to it. I would think that no one has thought to try and prevent others from making and selling them.

As for why she publicized it, for publicity as someone said and if she believes she is the only one with a right to sell it and that right is protected then who does it hurt to put it out there?[/i]

Lenette, I don't know if there is a way to comment on patent applications or not. I have not had the time to research it further. If you look at the US Patent site - there is a ton of information there. You can even see her patent application. But I have not been able to wade thru everything as of yet. So take a look if you can... and let me know if yoou find something.

Lenette, below is some info on protesting:

"Protests by a member of the public against pending applications will be referred to the examiner having charge of the subject matter involved. A protest specifically identifying the application to which the protest is directed will be entered in the application file if: (1) The protest is submitted prior to the publication of the application or the mailing of a notice of allowance under rule 1.311, whichever occurs first; and (2) The protest is either served upon the applicant in accordance with rule 1.248, or filed with the Office in duplicate in the event service is not possible. For more detailed information on protesting a patent, you may visit our Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep.htm for the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) Chapter 1900."

I am a little confused about (1).....since the application has already been published. The way I read it...if one wants to protest after the publication of the application...they must have the protest served to the applicant of the patent.


I don't think you are being catty at all. I was noticing another forum where the price of stuffed strawberries was the discussion. If she is able to get a patent on stuffed strawberries...then anyone who sells them are subject to suit. She provides instructions...because she knows that we can make stuffed strawberries...eat them, give them as gifts, share them with the office....but we CANNOT sell them for a profit. [/quote]

Welcome Doughbelly!!!

I think that the whole dessert ides is great. There is/was a "Dessert Restaurant" that I went to when I lived in New York 13 years ago and it was just great. For the life of me, I can't remember the name but I do remember that it was packed every night. It was in the city in Soho, not to far from the World Trade (don't know if it's still there, just went to the site for the first time in December and I wasn't even thinking of the place, it was a healing thing for hubby and I). Anyway, they named there desserts after diner dishes, but with a dessert twist. Like: "Chocolate Fried Cheesecake" - Chicken fried steak. It was an incredible cheesecake with a chocolate crust with a tiny scoop of fried ice cream. It is the only one I remember because it was the one I ordered all the time. I tried a brownie thing to but can't remember the name. I'll have to ask hubby if he remebers any names. Good luck with your new adventure, if I am ever in the area I'll be sure to stop by.

As for the stuffed/filled strawberries I just did some ( I have been dying to try them since I saw them on the post.) but I made them with a filling that has the cheesecake flavors but I didn't have to cook it and it worked wonderful and tasted GREAT!!! My son was sucking them down as if he were a vacuum cleaner and they were the crumbs on the floor. He was stuck to that plate. I guess that if I give the recipe I will have to fill out a patent app because I had never heard of filled strawberries. So since I have never heard of them, I invented them. .Nah
I filled them with a cream cheese filling and I didn't cook it, yet it had the full cheesecake flavor. Here goes.

Cheesecake filling:

One Reg. /lrg. package of Cream Cheese - Soften
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1/4 Cup Sugar.

Mix all ingredients together until well combined. Place filling in pipping bag with a #12 tip. Filled strawberries, then dipped in Chocolate. Refrigerated for 1/2 hour and Done.


Hope you girls like. I cut the bottom of the berries and than I held the bottoms to the rest of the berry with a toothpick to dip in the chocolate. Than once I the berry/chocolate was set in the fridge I removed the toothpick from the top/stem half of the strawberry. I hope you guys all understand what I mean.

have fun and enjoy filling strawberries.

Vicky

Ladies this is reallyfiunny but I just googled Emingers berries and the third site on the searchis our cinversation about the berries and her. Actually it is one 4 that are on here at CakeCentral. I think she is going to come and get us any time now for talking about her.

I just saw the video and is she a little cocky or what. When the guy asked her how did she come up with this idea she said that she wanted to do something better than the other chefs. Funny how she can do something better by doing something that already been done.

If you havn't watched the video you need to watch. It is actually pretty good the way she does it. I didn't do it that way at all. I cut the bottom but in the shape of a v going around the berry not just chopping a piece of and getting rid of the peice. I put the peice back so you still get the whole berry and none of the flavors overpower the other.


Vicky

Interesting, her site www.emingerberries.com is no longer availiable......

Wow... it is down. I wonder if it is just the server that is down or if she took the site down?

Boy, is this an interesting thread.

About 2-3 months ago I was watching the Food Network and on the show Road Tasted (or tested) with Paula Deens two boys, they were at Emmingers Berries, showingher process of the Stuffed Strawberry. Not a big deal, but then out of her mouth came "I invented the Stuffed Strawberry".

My jaw dropped. My husbands jaw dropped. My sisters jaw dropped.

My mom was making Stuffed Strawberries and selling them in her bakery...back in THE 60's in Novato CA! I have been making them and selling them in my business for years now!

So what do I do, because I am a little trouble maker...

I call her shop in maine and inquire about her strawberries. The girl who answered the phone said that Susan would call me back. Never heard from her.

I also looked up the patent and as far as my understanding and the understanding of my lawyer, she can only patent HER PROCESS of the "stuffing". So I dont think there is any worry about it...although it is funny that her website is gone now...although I do have her phone number and email address...bwaaahahahahaaa

Maybe I'll call gaian and ask what happened...

Please call if you can - I would love to know what's going on with the website. I can speculate all day long though. Let us know what you find out.

I think she has a great product - I just don't believe she invented stuffing a strawberry. And many posts in this thread back that up.

Ok...super sleuth DessertDiva...

I called her number that I have and I get a recording saying that "the mailbox for this phone number is full and cannot take anymore messages". So I send an email inquiring about orders made online (you could order directly from her website). Still waitin on a response for that.

I know that she is located across from a Pats Pizza in Auburn Maine so I call there and ask if the shop is still there. The woman on the phone says its still there, but she does not know if it is still open..." hmmmmm.

Interesting...

Susan, the so-called inventor of this, is all of about 29 yrs old, so how can she invent something that my mother was doing 40+ yrs ago? I believe that she has the right to patent her process of the stuffing, but the idea and product of stuffing a strawberry is so not her invention!

Very interesting.

Keep us posted.

Vicky

do you think is was because of our posts that she's no longer in business? i agree that it's not right that she claimed to have invented something she didn't, but i would feel bad if this thread cost her her livelihood.

Maybe it was because she charged $9 a darn strawberry. That's alot. I have made them since I saw this. It doesn't take $9 to make this. Maybe if you used la maison chocolate. Well, actually you would have to charge a little more.