Category: 12 Days of Christmas Baking
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 4: New Orleans Style Beignets
Honestly, is there anything better than a warm beignet from Cafe du Monde in New Orleans with a hot cup of chicory coffee?? We don’t get there very often, but when we do it’s a required stop. If you’re not able to visit New Orleans though making these yourself isn’t half bad. My husband and…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 3: Cheese Gougeres
When you think of pastries you probably think of sweet treats for breakfast or tea, but there are a lot of french pastries that are savory. Gougères, or french cheese puffs, are a classic savory french pastry and looked like fun! Considering french pastries are known for their difficulty I was relieved to see this…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 2: Cinnamon Bun Palmiers
Palmiers are a classic french puff pastry cookie and while I had seen them in photos before, I actually didn’t know what they were called. A friend and I thought it would be fun to make and while we cheated a little and used store bought puff pastry it made this recipe super easy to…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 1: Bavarian Cream Donuts
Merry Christmas and happy day one of this year’s 12 Days of Christmas Baking! This year I’m focusing on pastries! Donuts are notorious for being time consuming and even though I made beignets yesterday, this was my first attempt at actual donuts. I read through the instructions for this recipe multiples times before starting since…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 12: Kringle
Monday night I started working on a Kringle using a different recipe and managed to misread the instructions and whipped the living daylights out of the butter, hence rendering the rest of the dough completely useless. It was very frustrating and a good reminder to read directions carefully. The recipe I had chosen was super…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 11: Panettone
Seriously, I’ve made more bread in this past week than I probably have my whole life (minus banana or cranberry breads). Here it is though, the last bread recipe for this challenge! I saved this one for later because I needed to order panettone molds and I wasn’t sure they’d be here earlier on in…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 10: Bûche de Noël
This recipe was actually on the schedule for earlier in this challenge but I knew this was a beast of a project and honestly after some of the bread recipes I needed a break so I just kept pushing it back. But here it is… the day has arrived. I started this process yesterday by…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 9: Vínarterta
Vínarterta is known as the Icelandic Celebration Cake and is often made during the Christmas season. Despite using prunes, this recipe looks pretty and seemed fairly easy so I decided to give it a try. I halved the recipe since I didn’t have enough prunes and so we didn’t have so much baked goods in…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 8: Malva Pudding
This South African dessert feels a combination of bread pudding and a more traditional British pudding with the sauce on top. This recipe was easy to put together, the only reason I marked this as a 9 under baking ease is because I had to convert everything from metric to imperial. Thankfully our scale has…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 7: Czech Kolaches
Note to self: really take time to research recipes before committing to them. Had I taken a little longer to check out the recipes I chose I would have realized that close to half were bread recipes. Not only do I not have a ton of experience with bread baking, but it takes FOREVER! If…
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