Crispy Cinnamon Rounds

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Easy to make crispy cinnamon-sugar pecan rounds. The sugar on the bottom of the rounds caramelizes and gets crunchy while the inside of the rolls is light and fluffy. 

I’ve team up with Red Star Yeast to bake three delicious recipes from the Red Star website. Today’s post is the last of the three recipe.

The Red Star Crispy Cinnamon Rounds recipe is a perfect first recipe for those who are afraid of baking with yeast. The dough comes together quickly in a mixer and you don’t have to roll out the dough to make fancy shapes. You just roll pieces of dough in the sugar mixture, flatten it with your hand and bake it.

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Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Cookies

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I’m on vacation this week. So I’ve invited some amazingly talented bloggers to guest post and keep you entertained while I’m gone.

Today’s post is from Emily at is this REALLY my life? Emily has terrific sense of humor and her posts are always entertaining as well as delicious. In addition to recipes, she shares fashion and shopping tips, restaurant and product reviews, and snippets of her life as she laughs her way through “this crazy thing called motherhood.”

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Hello, everyone! This is Emily from is this REALLY my life? and yes, these chocolate caramel pretzel cookies are as decadent and drool-worthy as they sound.

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Whipped Spelt Bread

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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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Cherry ‘n Cheese Lattice Coffeecake

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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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Cardamom-Orange Coffee Cake Loaf

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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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Recipe Rewind: Perfecting Snickerdoodle Bread

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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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