Easter won’t be Easter without Hot Cross Buns. I decided to bake the buns in these cute square foil containers for a different look. This version has a combination of raisins and chocolate chips and less spiced than usual (by special request from my kids).
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Home-made Glazed Doughnuts
Who does not love doughnuts? These days it is popular to have a stack of douhgnuts instead of a birthday cake. Better yet, a doughnut wall to celebrate a birthday, wedding, etc.! Making doughnuts at home can easily be done with a few inexpensive ingredients. Once you’ve made these doughnuts, I guarantee your family willContinue reading “Home-made Glazed Doughnuts”
Home-made Hamburger Buns
Nothing beats freshly baked home-made bread – whether it is in bun or loaf form. These buns are quick and easy to prepare and will make home-made hamburgers taste extra delicious!
Bee-sting Pastries
The Beesting Cake (see image at the bottom of this post) has its origins in Germany. It is said that the cake is called “bee sting” as it is thought that a bee was attracted to the honey topping on the cake, and that the baker who invented the cake was stung. This popular German confection,Continue reading “Bee-sting Pastries”
Bee-sting Buns
These buns are a variation of the Bee-sting Cake. They are equally delicious!
Bee-sting Danishes
These Danish-looking pastries are another variation of the Bee-sting Cake. Just use the leftover sweet dough, custard filling and caramel and nut topping as per the recipe for Bee-sting Pastries. This shape is called Spandauer. Apparently the name comes from the fact that there was a prison located in Spandau, Berlin. Just like prisoners wereContinue reading “Bee-sting Danishes”
Whole-wheat Mini Loaves
This dough is economical and easy to make. You don’t even need bread flour to make it! It can be used to make everything from dinner rolls, to hamburger buns to bread sticks, roosterkoek, vetkoek, focaccia and pizza! Be sure to try the White Bread Mini Loaves too!
White Bread Mini Loaves
This dough is economical and easy to make. You don’t even need bread flour to make it! It can be used to make everything from dinner rolls, to hamburger buns to bread sticks, roosterkoek, vetkoek, focaccia and pizza! Be sure to try the Whole-wheat Bread Mini Loaves too!
Hot Cross Buns
Fill your kitchen and your home during this Easter time with the spicy aroma of the very best home made Hot cross buns, made with real ground spices and baked with love for your family and friends! One of the highlights on the calendar of worldwide annual baking traditions are these buns. A feeling ofContinue reading “Hot Cross Buns”
Hot Cross Hybrid
This recipe is a cross (excuse the pun!) between a Hot Cross Bun and the popular French pastry, pain au chocolat, which is made with yeast-leavened dough and filled with chocolate. “Pain au chocolat” literally means chocolate bread. Be sure to also try the traditional recipes for traditional Croissants and Hot Cross Buns.
Home-made Pita Bread
These authentic flat “pocket” breads of the past, originally baked on hot stones have made a great comeback! The hollow or split pitas may enjoyed with any part of the meal or stuffed with hot or cold, savoury or sweet fillings. For best results, knead the dough very well and allow for a thorough firstContinue reading “Home-made Pita Bread”
Croissants
A croissant is a buttery, flaky pastry named for its well-known crescent shape. Croissants and made of a layered yeast-leavened dough. The dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in succession, then rolled into a sheet, in a technique called laminating. The process results in a layered, flaky texture, similar to a puff pastry. AfterContinue reading “Croissants”
Cranberry & Nut Rye Bread
By adding dried fruit and nuts to this bread it is taken to a whole new level. Also try the Light Rye Bread which can be served with soup or as part of a cold buffet including salad, fish, cold meat and especially good tasty cheese.
Basic Sweet Dough
Almost every European country has developed it’s own speciality yeast bakes based on a variation of sweet dough. Here are a few: Bee-sting Pastries, Home-made Doughnuts, Hungarian Bubble Loaf, Panettone, German Stollen, Yugoslavian Nut Roll, Chocolate Babka, etc.
German Stollen
Stollen is a bread-like fruitcake and is traditionally served during the Festive period.
Hungarian Bubble Loaf
Irresistible bubbles of dough coated with butter, nuts, cinnamon and sugar.
Yugoslavian Nut Roll
Soft sweet dough filled with the most flavourful nut filling imaginable!
Panettone
Panettone is an Italian type of sweet bread originally from Milan, which is usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year. Traditional Panettone is flower-pot shaped and to achieve this effect it is baked in a deep high container with slanted sides. You can use a silicon mould, a 1.5 litre soufflé dish, aContinue reading “Panettone”
French Loaf
A super dough which lends itself to delightful variations in shape and size.
Light Rye Bread
One of the best breads to serve with soup or as part of a cold buffet which includes salad, fish, cold meat and cheese.