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My family LOVES biscotti. Normally I make my trusted and true Cranberry Orange Biscotti. But Today I wanted to mix it up and go a little sweeter….. and chocolate-i-er. Making a normal dessert in a chocolate flavor peaks pretty much everyone’s interest. Sure I’ve had biscotti… but chocolate biscotti!? Now this I have to try. …
Croissants are one of my favorite breakfast treats and I also love experimenting with puff pastry. Recently, while picking up some frozen puff pastry I noticed a gluten free version next to my usual Dufour variety. Knowing a lot of people with gluten issues and or wanting to go gluten free so I decided to …
The secret to this? Patience. This recipe is complicated because it takes a while for the dough to rise. A great baking activity for a rainy afternoon. There are several variations of this pastry most of which is with savory fillings. Sweetened Sauerkraut, Rice/Mushrooms, Cinnamon Cheese. The same dough also makes a sweet poppy seed …
There’s nothing quite like fresh warm cinnamon rolls on a weekend morning. The ooey gooey sweet goodness brings back great memories of watching Saturday morning cartoons or holiday breakfasts with my family. I was home visiting my mom recently and she really wanted to have cinnamon rolls. Our town doesn’t have a bakery where we’d …
Yes, you read that right, ‘Man Buns’. I named these delectable breakfast pastries after the ubiquitous hipster male hairdo. Why exactly? Well, for one, they are ‘buns’ and their signature swirl and inspiration from traditional ‘morning buns’ lends them to the name and ‘man’ because they are filled with ‘manly’ ingredients like bacon and peanut …
This past weekend I went skiing with some friends in Upstate NY. As the song goes, the weather was frightful (about 2 feet of snow and temperatures in the negatives, to be exact). We spent the weekend digging out the cars from the snow, skiing and sitting by the fire at night. But one thing …