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Banana bread on cutting board with knife

Best and Easiest Guide to Banana Bread

One of the things we love about banana bread is how generally forgiving it is to make for beginners. This beginner’s guide is perfect! The ratios in the recipe are not as precise as they are in many other baked goods. This makes it a very non-threatening and approachable baked good to make.

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Sourdough Pumpernickel Bread

This bread is traditional in the Westphalia region of Germany. Made from coarsely ground Rye flour and a small portion of wheat flour, traditional Pumpernickel is a heavy, course-textured dense bread that is very dark brown, almost black at times.

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drizzling caramel pecan topping on top the cinnamon rolls

Best Easy Pumpkin Pie Spice Pecan Sticky Buns

Pillowy and dreamy. Float away to happiness with these rolls that are as absolutely heavenly as they sound. These soft, delicate layers of lightly sweetened buttery dough are dotted with just a hint of toasted wheat germ to make it taste like a puffed-up super-soft graham cracker cloud of airy pumpkin pie goodness drizzled with caramel sauce you can stuff in your face. Too much? We don’t think so!

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Fall Recipes

Best Ever Classic Frangipane Tart

Our Chef’s Best Ever Classic Pear Frangipane Tart or Tarte Bourdaloue in French is a delicious lightly spiced Fall and Winter pastry full of almond notes and perfect pear texture. The Sweet Pastry is filled with Almond Cream and topped with Poached Pears.

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Winter Recipes

4 Easy Delicious Homemade Holiday Cookie Mixes

This cookie mix recipe collection is just fantastic! There are four flavor variations here in one post. Homemade mixes are easy to make and you can control the ingredients. It’s a wonderful way to bake from scratch and still enjoy the convenience of a mix.

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Spring Recipes

Spiced Cherry Biscuits

The tart-sweet cherries are combined in a lightly sweet fluffy biscuit with hints of cardamom, cinnamon and a subtly kiss of orange. Now, these are some pretty delicious biscuits!

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French Bread Formulation with Poolish

Generally, the French Bread found in America is glorified white bread. This is not that bread. This is a traditional French Bread with a pre-ferment called a Poolish. The poolish is blended and allowed to ferment for 8-12 hours at room temperature before the dough is made.

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Summer Recipes

Banana bread on cutting board with knife

Best and Easiest Guide to Banana Bread

One of the things we love about banana bread is how generally forgiving it is to make for beginners. This beginner’s guide is perfect! The ratios in the recipe are not as precise as they are in many other baked goods. This makes it a very non-threatening and approachable baked good to make.

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