It took me a few days to post this recipe, but I made this lovely, enriched, anise scented bread on Good Friday, in a lead-up to the Easter weekend festivities. I found the recipe in The Bread Bible, and decided to give it a try. The original recipe has you dividing the dough into three…
Category: Baking
Coconut Sugar Cookies
My Coconut Sugar Cookies are not as coconut-ty as they could be, in fact, the only coconut I use in my dough is coconut extract. Normally I would top my buttercream with shredded coconut, but as I am baking these cookies for Easter, I decided on pastel piped buttercream instead. I confess to owning a…
Irish Soda Bread
It wouldn’t be an American St Patrick’s Day without some Irish soda bread. This year I get to forgo making the corned beef and cabbage, something that I am secretly excited about, I can’t stand boiled cabbage, because my lovely Aunt Michelle has invited us over for the occasion, sparing me the task, and making…
Lemon Ginger Miniture Biscotti
I tried out a new biscotti recipe that incorporated spelt flour alongside the usual white flour. I would have never attempted this flour combination for biscotti, if I hadn’t come across this other recipe from a supposedly reputable source, due to the hard consistency of regular biscotti. As it was, I should have trusted my…
The Ephemeral Bee 