This honey white sandwich bread is the best thing since sliced bread. It’s the OG! Sandwich bread is not exciting. It’s the most basic of breads. I don’t see a loaf and think mmm let me eat a slice of that. But, is it important? Yes. It’s a classic. It’s carrying the load of school…
Believe it or not, I’ve actually never baked anything with cherries before. Probably because I love them and will eat them all right after buying them. Rainier cherries are my absolute favorite and getting a paper bag full while walking through the produce and flower section at Pike Place is the best way to do…
If you’ve never had a braided bread, you’re probably in the majority. There are quite a few recipes for breads filled with lemon curd out on the internet and it’s probably the most popular. One of my favorite appetizers is a crostini with goat cheese, prosciutto, honey, arugula and grapes. It was kind of the…
Let’s be bread baking babes Bread is relatively simple. Flour, salt, water and yeast are the four main ingredients that make the dough. Some doughs will use things like sugar or eggs or olive oil, but a LOT of breads are made with these four simple and fairly inexpensive ingredients. You can make pretty fancy…
This white-wheat dutch oven bread requires no kneading yet creates a crusty artisan loaf of bread to share and enjoy. No knead bread is the best! Any bread you don’t have to knead is great in my opinion because it’s so easy. It’s like those old commercials (maybe they were infomercials), set it and forget…
These chocolate malt milk buns are like heaven. Have you had Japanese milk bread? If you haven’t.. you need to. Simply wonderful. It’s SO SOFT and pillowy and basically melts in your mouth. Like a bread version of cotton candy. Not exactly but just as delicious. I love milk bread when it’s unflavored, it’s ever…
Birthday cake scones are a fun and festive way to celebrate. Vanilla funfetti scones with a vanilla/white chocolate chip and a lightly citrus glaze. It’s my birthday! If you have a summer birthday you know, that as a kid at least they can sometimes result in not many friends being around to come to your…
If I had ever had this blackberry poppyseed loaf as a kid, I would have been in heaven. Blackberries are a fruit I’ve spent more time picking in my life than anything else. When I was young we took a trip to Tofino, BC and I remember spending a few hours picking (and eating) blackberries…
I went to Italy and I didn’t get a stupid shirt OR an Italian maritozzi. What was I thinking? I went to Italy for Christmas and New Years in 2013/14. My husband was on deployment based out of Naples. So over the holidays I was able to fly there and meet him. It was really…
Lemon curd and I are having a life long love affair. Except when I say lifelong, I mean adult life because I was a sheltered child who was never exposed to lemon curd. I wasn’t actually sheltered and if I had been introduced I probably would have not liked it like a psychopath. Fun fact,…
Pretzel bagels are here for all your soft pretzel breakfast dreams. You’re welcome. When I was a kid we lived in rural Virginia. I’m not talking about oh like a small town with some chain restaurants population 20,000. I’m talking one stoplight. One old family run gas station, a bank, and a building that consisted…
These scones were created for Easter but honestly, I’m sure they are great anytime. Full disclosure, I haven’t had carrot cake since I was a child. I know it’s a favorite though. I’m assuming (from eating these and doing research) that carrots are similar to what zucchini does in zucchini bread. Adding moisture and a…
Who invented cookie butter? I’m pretty sure it didn’t exist when I was a kid. If it did I’m going to be seriously mad at my mom for hiding it from me. It’s deliciousness should be shared with the world! Hence me shoving it into a scone to make these cookie butter scones. What’s not…
I love blueberry muffins, like most people. My mom always made them when I was growing up, but like most people she made them from a box mix. I have zero qualms about using box mix for some things. Some stuff, it’s just easy and tastes great so why change it? Blueberry muffins (some of…
Cinnamon star bread may be the A-list family member of enriched celestial shaped dough, but I’d like to champion this version as a pretty enticing substitute. This spiced chocolate star bread was actually born out attempting to make the cinnamon version over Christmas. I was visiting family and got up early Christmas morning to make…