Category: Breakfast Bakes
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 8: Baker’s Croissants
I’m starting the new year off with one of the most well-known and time consuming pastries: the croissant. I had the opportunity to eat a delicious freshly-made croissant while in Paris around this time a few years ago and it was heavenly! I didn’t expect these to turn out like those in France, but I…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 7: Easy Chocolate Eclair
Chocolate eclairs were never my go to pastry, but lately they’ve been a new favorite. This recipe seemed like a breeze after making the cheese gougeres earlier this week and I think this is the third or fourth time I’ve made pastry cream this year. Despite claiming to be an easy recipe that wasn’t my…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 6: Roast Tomato Tart
I made a Berry Cream Tart earlier this year that was very good, but I thought I’d try a savory tart for today’s recipe. Every time I say Roast Tomato Tart out loud I feel like I can hear Mary Berry saying it. I know they made several tarts on the Great British Bake Off,…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 5: Easy Cherry Danish with Sweet Cream Cheese
Ok, I’m using store bought puff pastry again…. hopefully you’re not too disappointed. After last year’s 12 Days of Christmas Baking I knew I’d need a few recipes that were fairly easy to give me time to focus on the more difficult ones. Plus, this looked too delicious to not try! Also, let’s be real;…
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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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Cranberry Nut Bread
I made Cranberry Bread last year and while it was good I wanted to try a different recipe this time. This is a really simple recipe to throw together: liquids in one bowl, dry ingredients in the other. Mix those together and then gently add walnuts and cranberries. Voila – you’re ready to put this…
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Banana Bread
We always seem to have a ton of banana’s in the freezer and while I love the banana bread recipe we grew up making I like to vary things up sometimes. I found this recipe from Pioneer Woman and since I had just gotten a new bundt cake pan I thought this would be the…
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