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Olive Oil Wreath #BBB
Welcome to the April Bread Baking Babes bake! This month, Karen's Kitchen Stories has chosen a beautiful olive oil wreath that is cut in the style of a French Pain D’Epi wheat stalk bread. I took a cue from a youtube epi shaping video and pressed nigella seeds (charnushka) into the cut edges for some contrast and I love how it turned out. Plus I really like the flavor from the nigella. This toothsome loaf is just begging to be dipped into soup or stew, spread with butter, or dipped into an herbed olive oil with a splash of balsamic...
Bread for Beginners: Sandwich Bread Recipe
A few months ago I decided I'd like to try baking all our bread instead of buying some of it at the store. I was already baking about half of what we eat, but was tired of getting cheap grocery store bread that was full of junk (and the nice stuff is pricey!!). So I tried out a bunch of different recipes, tweaked my favorite, and baked my heart out. Little did I know that a couple months later, there would be a serious bread shortage in stores! I'm so glad I was already in the habit of baking all...
When I first saw this Easter sweet from Málaga called nazareno, which literally translates as nazarean, my first thought was: hot cross buns! Their look is very similar, so I wonder if they are influenced by each other (maybe a traveler that brought...
A few differences are that, in the nazareno, the raisins are soaked in Málaga‘s sweet wine, and it also incorporates candied fruit and walnuts. As for the cross –characteristic on both of them–, the recipes vary: some use flour and water while some are icing sugar based. However, my very favorite is the cream cheese frosting. So the recipe I’m bringing you today is the Málaga‘s nazareno with the less-malagueña cream cheese cross. In my opinion, the best of both worlds! Nazareno hot cross bun. The word nazareno alludes to the men that carry the religious images that process through...