It’s time to start thinking about Turkey Day dishes again, and what better place to start than the bread basket? Because who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when the holidays roll around? Heck, who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when tonight’s dinner rolls around? And what… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Bread & Baked Goods
Blood Orange-Ricotta Coffee Cake
This coffee cake has been many weeks in the works, tested first before Christmas using Navel oranges, then after the New Year as I worked on my restraint as it related to the crumb topping. It seems that a philosophy of more is better doesn’t really work for coffee cake crumb, and the cakes I… Continue Reading
My Favorite Holiday Cookies and a Recipe Journal Giveaway at LoveFeast Table
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Heather, winner of the recipe journal, and thank you to Kristin and Chris Ann at LoveFeast Table for sponsoring the giveaway. A quick scroll through my baking posts shows a proclivity toward cakes, but at holiday time, even a cake baker like me has to have a favorite… Continue Reading
Whole Wheat Pumpkin-Pear Cake with Ginger-Cream Cheese Frosting
The Hodgson Mill “Have a Grain Holiday” giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Manda, who won the prize pack! This is a more healthful cake than my usual, being a whole grain baked good and all, flavored with pumpkin and loaded with pear slices. Whole grains! Fruit! Vegetables! However, I couldn’t help but top it… Continue Reading
Apple-Caramel Eggnog Coffee Cake and a Giveaway from HP Hood
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Angie who tweeted her winning entry. Eggnog season is historically a bit of a problem for me. A problem of indulgence. There is eggnog French toast, there are eggnog-hazelnut cupcakes, there are my friend Artie’s amazing eggnog cookies. There is eggnog, straight up. There is eggnog, spiked. And then,… Continue Reading