A week or so before Thanksgiving, I went on a mission to find a really good roll recipe for those all-important leftover turkey sandwiches. I think I tried three or four recipes before finally settling on this one from the King Arthur Flour website.
The only change I made to the recipe was to increase the [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie
Making this focaccia was a mistake. A HUGE mistake. See, Bryan is trying out a gluten-free diet, so anything I bake I try to get rid of before he gets home. So I made this focaccia, and all my regular baking recipients weren’t answering [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie
Challah (a traditional Jewish bread, usually braided) was one of the first breads I learned to make in baking school. We liked making it, because it could be mixed, left to rise and then baked in the five hours we were in class. Some [...]

Currently baking out of Macrina Bakery & Cafe Cookbook by Leslie Mackie
Some day I will have my own bakery, and when I do, I want it to just like Seattle’s Macrina Bakery. I haven’t actually ever been there, but based on the cookbook, which is based on the recipes that the bakery uses, I think [...]

Currently cooking from Tasty by Roy Finamore
Why make English muffins? Well, why not? I had the ingredients (flour, yeast, salt and water) and instead of heating up the house with the oven, these little babies get cooked on a cast-iron griddle on the stovetop.
The simple dough is mixed up and left to rest overnight in [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
I’m not sure what to classify these as. Are they cookies? Mini cakes? The lazy person’s croissants? Whatever you want to call them, they are fantastic! Warm from the oven, they are soft and pillowy and full of cinnamony goodness. The walnuts [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter
My first try at Walter’s yeasted simple sweet dough didn’t go well (remember that blueberry pizza?), but I felt like I should give it another go since I wasn’t sure why it didn’t work before. So I whipped up another batch and [...]

Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter.
Sorry for the pictures. I made this cake while vacationing with my family, and I was eager to cut into it, so the picture taking took a backseat.
I really, really wanted to like this recipe. It is unique and lends itself to [...]

Currently baking from The Art & Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet.
Cinnamon, raisins and rosemary? The combination was intriguing enough that I had to try it. And guess what? It totally works. This may be my new favorite bread. Warm from the oven and smeared with butter, this was foodie heaven. Mushet also says that leftovers [...]

Currently baking from The Art & Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet.
Even though I had problems the first time around making this recipe, I enjoyed the flavor enough that I wanted to give it another go. I’m happy to report that this time, everything went well. My biga was still wetter then Mushet’s, but not [...]