Breads

Popovers With Ginger Pear Butter and Cardamom Sugar

Ginger pear butter to spoon over these popovers makes them extra special - and the perfect winter brunch menu item.

Popovers are easier to make than you might think. All you really need is a popover pan, and then your basic baking ingredients - flour, butter, sugar, milk, and of course eggs.
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Traditional Braided Finnish Pulla Bread

This Finnish egg bread, which is similar to a challah or brioche, features the warm, rich flavors of cardamom and butter. 

This delicious egg bread recipe is a tradition in Finland and the first bread I bake each fall to kick of the holiday baking season! It's called pulla bread.

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Cardamom Bread Pudding with Crème Anglaise

My cardamom bread pudding is the sweetest way to use up stale bread or leftover odds and ends of rolls or buns.

This bread pudding is one of my go-to winter comfort recipes. It's the best way to use up stale bread, those leftover rolls, or even hot dog buns (!) and it's so easy to make.

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Gruyere Gougeres

These bite-sized cheesy little French puffs are addictive - so it’s a good thing this recipe makes a few dozen!

Gruyere Gougeres. Say that three times fast!

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Focaccia Italian Flat Bread with Garlic Sage Olive Oil

Focaccia is one of the easiest types of bread to make and it's great for snacking, alongside your favorite pasta, or sandwiches.

Focaccia is a quick and easy yeasted bread that I make fairly often. It's a flat-ish Italian style of bread made with olive oil and honey and is often flavored with herbs.  

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Homemade Ritz-style Butter Crackers

These crispy butter crackers are an addictive nibble to pair with a cocktail or a glass of chilled wine, or to add to your cheese board on a lazy summer afternoon.

These buttery crackers get extra richness from the eggs in them, and you'll have trouble stopping at eating just one or two! 
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Cardamom Vanilla Swirl Braided Bread

This variation on a traditional swirl bread has braided layers of cardamom, vanilla and sugar to sweeten it.

If you've never had bread flavored with cardamom, you're in for a real treat! I love to substitute cardamom for recipes that call for cinnamon. I find the subtle flavor much more to my liking. 

For this recipe, I started with a traditional, basic cinnamon raisin swirl bread recipe and subbed in cardamom for the cinnamon, added some vanilla bean paste, and ditched the raisins.
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Buttery Homemade Crescent Rolls

Faster than you can whack a tube of store bought crescent roll dough on the edge of the counter, you can make a batch of warm, buttery, homemade rolls.
plate of homemade crescent rolls

I love baking bread of any kind, but these buttery homemade crescent rolls are especially fun.

They aren't difficult to make - you just need to plan ahead a bit early in the day to allow the dough to rise so you can bake them to be ready for dinner time.

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Braided Easter Egg Bread (Finnish Pulla)

This egg bread is a Scandinavian braided bread called "pulla" which features warm, rich flavors of cardamom and butter.  I've made it more festive by tucking a few Easter eggs into it as it bakes.

Eggs are traditionally used as a symbol of spring and the Easter and Passover holidays. Which is convenient since your backyard flock should be ramping up egg production to coincide with the spring holidays! 

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Traditional Boston Brown Bread

Brown bread was traditionally baked in a tin can, making this bread not only delicious, but fun to make!

My mother is a fabulous cook and baker, and one of my favorite childhood food memories is when she would bake brown bread - right in a tin can!  

Delicious and moist, and studded with raisins, Boston Brown Bread is the perfect accompaniment to a plate of baked beans. 

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Honey Spice Egg Bread Recipe for your Bread Machine

Making bread in your bread machine couldn't be easier.

While I do enjoy the luxury of spending an afternoon making bread by hand, I have to say my bread machine is a lifesaver for when I can't devote several hours to bread making.
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Cardamom Ginger Zucchini Bread with Streusel Topping

Add some cardamom to a basic zucchini bread recipe for the best bread you've ever tasted.

'Tis the season of an overabundance of zucchini in every backyard garden. This zucchini quick bread is one of our family favorites because it uses fresh eggs, homegrown zucchini and one of my favorite spices - cardamom.

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Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding

Chocolate chip bread pudding is the ultimate in comfort desserts. This recipe is quick and easy for some near-instant gratification! 

This bread pudding couldn't be easier to make as an improptu weeknight dessert that is sure to please your family.
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Homemade Butter and Buttermilk Biscuits

Make your own homemade butter ... and then whip up a batch of buttermilk biscuits too!

I had wanted to try making my own butter for such a long, long time, but just never got around to it.

Then a recipe I saw in a magazine back in 2013 inspired me to finally give it a try ... and it couldn't be easier - using your stand mixer!

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No-Knead Cast Iron Skillet Bread

Bake bread right in a cast iron skillet - no kneading required!

I love fresh-baked bread. The heady, fermented scent of the yeast, the enticing aroma of the baking bread, there is nothing better on a cold dreary winter day. 

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Blueberry Maple Bread Pudding with Sticky Blueberry Sauce

Bread pudding is a great way to use up stale bread. This version combines maple syrup and blueberries for true Maine flavor.

My husband and I love Maine. We would move there in a heartbeat if he could find a job there.  [Update, he was able to retire from the Navy and we DID move there in 2015!]

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