Tag: Baking from scratch
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12 Days of Christmas Baking- Pastry Edition Day 10: Napoleons
While many of the pastries I’ve made are more modern pastries, the Napoleon is a classic french pastry. Since I didn’t make my own puff pastry for the few earlier 12 Days of Christmas Baking pastries I knew I had to try it at least once during this challenge. I chose King Arthur’s recipe because…
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Cinnamon Swirl Scones
I’m becoming obsessed with making scones; they’re super easy and taste amazing. Fall is my favorite season in general, but it’s also my favorite time to bake. I love all things apple, cinnamon, and pumpkin so when I ran across this Cinnamon Swirl Scone recipe on Instagram I knew I’d have to try it out.…
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Soft Pretzels
I love a good soft pretzel, especially during the fall with some beer cheese or German mustard to help celebrate Oktoberfest! Last year we discovered an amazing sweet german mustard that goes great with soft pretzels as well so if you’re feeling adventerous you should look for that or find a recipe to make it…
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Cream Biscuits
If you’re looking for a quick biscuit recipe it can’t get much easier than this recipe! You literally only use 2 ingredients: two! J. Kenji López-Alt does a great job of explaining why this recipe works with only 2 ingredients and there’s the option to add a little sugar to make a sweet shortcake-style biscuits.…
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Best Homemade Brownies
Tuesday we had a brownie bake-off at work so I decided to take these recipes I recently discovered. My best friend’s husband made these brownies when I visited and they were so good I had to ask for the recipe. I love brownies, but I feel like a lot of recipes end up overly sweet…
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Original Cake Pan Cake
I love cake and a layer cake is probably one of my favorite classic desserts. While cake is great, sometimes you don’t want all of that cake lying around right? Or maybe you just need a quick and delicious cake this weekend for Mother’s Day! While many companies make cake mixes proportioned for an 8…
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Gluten-Free Boston Cream Pie
Boston Cream Pie is one of my friend’s favorite desserts, but she can’t have gluten so I decided to try and find a recipe that was gluten-free. Thanks to the internet there are always quite a few recipes to choose from and I looked over a few, but most only used almond flour. I’ve found…
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Cranberry Scones
I love scones and feel like we don’t talk about these delicious treats enough. Let it be known that I’m all for incorporating tea time here in the US like they do in the UK. Why would you not want to make time for a nice cup of tea and a little treat to go…
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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…
KH Confections 