Category: Seasonal Bakes
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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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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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