Yeast Breads & Rolls

Focaccia Bread

January 18, 2012 |

One of my favorite store-bought (or, I suppose, bakery-bought) splurges is focaccia bread. The crusty outside, chewy interior, and all of the flavors from herbs and garlic. When there’s a loaf in the house I’m guilty of cutting off a piece (just a little piece!), and then another piece, and then another, and then of [...]

Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

August 23, 2011 |

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This is one of those recipes that was love at first sight. As soon as my eyes fell upon the picture of this bread on Joy the Baker, I wanted it on a plate in front of me, immediately. Like a lot of recipes though, it somehow found its way onto the back burner and [...]

Top 10 List: Favorite Yeast Bread Recipes

August 8, 2011 |

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I’m finishing up my Top 10 series with all of my favorite yeast breads. This was a particularly hard category to narrow down because making homemade yeast bread is one of the most relaxing and satisfying things for me in the kitchen. I love the smell of the yeasted dough, how it feels in my [...]

Hot Cross Buns

April 22, 2011 |

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Hot Cross Buns are an old English Easter tradition, and a recipe that has been on my to-make list for some time now (somehow it didn’t end up on my Top 100 though?!). Given the upcoming holiday and my yearning to bake something with yeast (I really need to start making home-baked bread a regular [...]

Cranberry-Walnut Rolls

November 23, 2010 |

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These are phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. I was cleaning out my stack of Bon Appetit magazines from last year and came across this recipe. I have no idea how I missed it the first time around. As soon as I saw the combination of cranberries and walnuts in large-sized dinner rolls, I made it my business [...]

Garlic Knots

October 6, 2010 |

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For as much as I absolutely adore bread in all of its magnificent forms, I rarely make rolls. Sometimes I will make a batch of sweet dinner rolls to go with a pot of stew or chili, and for the holidays I used a basic bread recipe to make cloverleaf rolls for dinner. But outside [...]

Monkey Bread

August 27, 2010 |

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One massive, gooey cinnamon roll? Yes, please! I know this is called monkey ‘bread’ but I’m having a hard time deciding if it should be classified as bread or a cake. Or a pastry. Breakfast pastry? Oooh maybe that’s it! However you categorize it, this is all kinds of delicious. Sweetened dough is cut into [...]

Honey-Oatmeal Sandwich Bread

May 19, 2010 |

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Honey-wheat bread was the second loaf of bread that I ever baked from scratch, behind my beloved white bread. As a result, it naturally holds a special place in my heart. What I was hungry for this week was some type of oat bread, so I went off flipping through my cookbooks, magazines and websites [...]

Cinnamon Raisin Walnut Bread

May 4, 2010 |

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I absolutely adore baking bread from scratch, but sometimes I go through a bit of a drought. I get caught up in chocolate and cheesecakes and cookies and then the weather starts to get warm, and fresh bread doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. I am determined to put a stop to that and [...]

English Muffins

February 2, 2010 |

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English muffins are one those foods that never really occurred to me to make from scratch. I had a similar revelation with pita bread, actually. Sure, I bake loaves of bread quite often and have even made things like brioche, challah and bagels. Yet, for some reason it seems that there are foods that somehow [...]