Category: Seasonal Bakes
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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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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 6: Sticky Toffee Pudding
This is one of those desserts I feel like I heard all the time on Great British Bake Off. I don’t actually remember seeing them make this dessert so maybe I’m just thinking of another pudding, but I was pretty excited to try my hand at a British pudding. Well… that is until I realized…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 5: Melomakarona
Five days in and I’ll be honest, I’m having a lot of fun trying various Christmas and New Year’s treats from around the world. While I was researching what I’d be baking during these 12 days I found a lot of amazing recipes and it was really hard to consolidate to just 12 but these…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 4: Bibingka
I purposely rearranged my baking challenge schedule to give myself a little break after the last two days. True to this baking challenge I’m baking recipes that I’ve never done before and many of which (including this one) I’ve never tasted before. Bibingka is a type of baked rice cake the Philippines that’s usually eaten…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 3: Conchas (Mexican Pan Dulce)
Wow… I thought yesterday tested my abilities. Today’s challenge stepped things up a little! First, I would definitely recommend watching the video under the instructions beforehand as it was really helpful to watch someone else doing this before starting. Second, I should have started this dough last night and let it rise in the fridge…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 2: German Christmas Stollen
I’ll be honest, I’ve never even tasted stollen before much less made it. I knew this particular baked good would be a bit of a challenge as I haven’t had a lot of experience with bread making. Unlike everyone else in 2020, I spent my time making unhealthy treats like cupcakes instead of bread! While…
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12 Days of Christmas Baking Day 1: Spiked Eggnog Bundt Cake
As a fun way of baking through the holidays I decided to do a 12 days of Christmas baking challenge for myself. I thought it might be a fun way to push myself to try things I might have never thought about trying. Plus it gives me a great excuse to try Christmas baked goods…
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Peppermint Macarons
I’ve been wanting to try macarons again since round one didn’t go as well as I had hoped. As I mentioned on that post, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with macarons as they’re a bit finicky. I made the others during summer and since we live in the Southeast region…
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Gingerbread Cookies
Gingerbread: a quintessential of the holiday season. I haven’t made gingerbread cookies in a long time, but was keeping my nieces this weekend and thought it would be a fun thing to do together. It’s important to use the right recipe for cookies that you use cookie cutters on so I went to my trusted…
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Apple Hand Pies With Brown Sugar & Butter Glaze
It’s fall, which is my favorite baking season. Nothing is better than spending part of the weekend baking and watching football on TV. This past weekend we went up to the mountains and visited several apple orchards so this is probably the first of a few apple specific recipes. I love apple pie, but prefer…
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