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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Quick Triple Berry Compote

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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

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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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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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Cinna-Mini Cinnamon Rolls

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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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