Category: Seasonal Bakes
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Best-Ever Easter Bread
I don’t often make bread so I always get nervous trying bread recipes because I feel like they can be so finicky. This recipe looked so fun though and I’m trying to push myself outside my comfort zone a little so I figured I’d just try it and see what happens. This recipe takes a…
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Speckled Malted Coconut Cake
The photo of this cake on Country Living’s website is just stunning and after running across this recipe I knew I was going to have to try it. I’m not a huge fan of coconut cake, much less malt, but it was just too pretty to not test out. Plus my coworkers are pretty awesome…
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Apple Matzo Cake
In honor of Passover beginning on Saturday I wanted to try and find a recipe to try that could be eaten as part of a Passover celebration. I ran across this recipe for Apple Matzo Cake and thought it looked interesting, especially since it uses Matzo crackers instead of flour. As a whole this is…
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Sesame Seed Balls
Today is the Lunar New Year and we bid farewell to the Year of the Rat and usher in the Year of the Ox. Fried Sesame Balls, or Jian Dui, are a classic Chinese dessert that is traditionally served during the Lunar New Year so that’s what I’m trying today! Not only have I never…
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Hot Chocolate Macarons
I saw these adorable macarons on Pies & Taco’s Instagram a few weeks ago and have just been waiting for the chance to make them. I was already making a Hot Cocoa Cake (stay tuned for that post this weekend!) and thought making these too would be a fun edition. After a more successful venture…
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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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