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Whipped Spelt Bread

May 20, 2013 27 Comments

A spelt bread dough whipped with the whisk attachment, then left to rise overnight in the refrigerator. The next day the dough is divided in to two pieces and gently twisted in to a pretty free formed loaf.

It’s time again for the Bread Baking Babes and Buddies challenge. This month’s challenge was selected by Ilva of Lucullian Delights. She has the Babes and Buddies baking from a Nordic cookbook called Home Baked: Nordic Recipes and Techniques for Organic Bread and Pastry by Hanne Risgaard, a whipped bread made with spelt flour. Ilva was intrigued with this recipe because it uses the whisk to whip the dough.

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Recipe Rewind: Lighter Chicken Parmesan

May 17, 2013 11 Comments

Instead of frying chicken cutlets in lots of oil, they’re baked so they’re crispy and cheesy, but also healthy and delicious..

Today’s post is my second recipe rewind post. Each month I’ll feature a terrific recipe I posted when I first started blogging that you may have missed. This Lighter Chicken Parmesan recipe is one my daughter makes often and she commented that it needed an update. It’s one of her husband’s favorites.

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Cherry ‘n Cheese Lattice Coffeecake

May 13, 2013 39 Comments

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A sweet bread dough filled with cream cheese and cherries, “braided” and baked until it’s golden brown, then finished with sweet icing drizzled prettily over the bread.

Today’s post is another wonderful recipe from the Red Star Yeast website. It’s the second in a series of three posts that I’ve team up with Red Star to bake one of their recipes. I knew I’d love the recipe even before I made it. I’ve made mock braids in the past and they’re easy to make, and fun to serve because they look impressive and always receive oohs and ahhs.

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Filed Under: Sweet Rolls Tagged With: baking, Breakfast, food

Cardamom-Orange Coffee Cake Loaf

May 10, 2013 32 Comments

Moist, delicious cardamom-orange coffee cake topped with an almond cinnamon sugar topping, baked in cute mini loaf pans so they’re easy to share and sturdy enough to mail to far away friends.

The Flying Brownie by Shirley Fan is an adorable cookbook with 100 recipes for homemade treats that are perfect for packing and shipping to friends and family. Each recipe includes tips on shipping and there’s a Care Packages 101 section to help you get your treats to your loved ones in just baked condition.

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Filed Under: Quick Breads Tagged With: baking, Breakfast, food, recipe

Quick Triple Berry Compote

May 5, 2013 29 Comments

A quick cooking berry compote made with red raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. A sweet sauce for your favorite breakfast or dessert.

Sustainable Cooking For One is my Secret Recipe Club blog this month. Eating sustainably is an important element of Stephanie’s kitchen, so her recipes are healthy, low or no meat, and focus on in-season and local foods. Her cookbook One Bowl: Simple Healthy Recipes for One has tips and recipes for cooking healthy meals for one.

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Lemon Ricotta Crepes

May 3, 2013 24 Comments

Tender crepes filled with a rich, lemon ricotta filling and topped with a quick berry compote.

Today’s recipe is from Lauren’s Latest new eCookbook, Everyday Ingredients Extraordinary Food. It’s available as a downloadable PDF that you can read on your computer, iPad or iPhone.

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Filed Under: Pancakes and Waffles Tagged With: Breakfast, food, recipe

Strawberry Cheesecake with an Oreo Cookie Crust

April 29, 2013 55 Comments

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Luscious, creamy New York style cheesecake with a crumbly Oreo cookie crust and topped with fresh strawberries drizzled with a strawberry glaze.

Cheesecake is my son-in-law’s favorite dessert. For his birthday my daughter asked me to help her bake a fantastic cheesecake. We brainstormed ideas and decided since gorgeous, sweet California strawberries are now at the market, to make strawberry cheesecake. However, we didn’t want just an ordinary strawberry cheesecake, we wanted it to look spectacular. So we paired it with an Oreo cookie crust, left the berries whole, arranged them artfully on top of the cake, then drizzle the berries with a fresh strawberry glaze.

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Recipe Rewind: Perfecting Snickerdoodle Bread

April 26, 2013 23 Comments

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If you like a Snickerdoodle cookie, you’re going to love Snickerdoodle bread. It has a crispy cinnamon sugar topping with a sweet, buttery, tangy interior. I’ve also added another layer of cinnamony goodness by loading it with luscious cinnamon chips.

Some of my family’s most loved recipes were recipes I posted when I first started blogging. I didn’t have very many followers. I only had a point and shoot camera, and I didn’t have any experience taking food photos. When I redesigned my site recently, I updated every post with the new Ziplist recipe format which makes it easy to print and save recipes. It was fun to look back at posts I’d written years ago, but the pictures really need updating too.

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Filed Under: Quick Breads Tagged With: baking, Breakfast, Dessert, food, recipe

Cinna-Mini Cinnamon Rolls

April 22, 2013 47 Comments

A classic ooey, gooey cinnamon roll topped with a rich cream cheese frosting in a fun mini size perfect for a party. Betcha can’t eat just one.

Annalise, Completely Delicious, recently hosted a pot luck baby shower brunch for our good friend Becky, Vintage Mixer. When you go to a pot luck party with food bloggers, you know you’re going to eat well, and the pressure’s on to make something extra special.

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Filed Under: Sweet Rolls Tagged With: baking, Breakfast, food, recipe

Honeywell Air Purifier Giveaway

April 19, 2013 8 Comments

Day 5 of 5 Days of Giveaways

It’s the final day of 5 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS week on Barbara Bakes. In case you are just tuning in, Carrian, Sweet Basil, invited me to participate in a week of giveaways she’s organized to celebrate turning 29 with a few of her favorite bloggers. It’s also my five year blogiversary this year, so 5 days of giveaways is the perfect way to say thank you to all my wonderful readers for their support over the years.

I hope you’ve been enjoying the giveaways, and having as much fun as we have been. Today’s giveaway is for 2 Honeywell Air Purifiers, the Honeywell True Hepa 5 in 1 Air Purifier to be exact. Two lucky readers will each win one.

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