Breakfast, Brunch & Lunch
Blueberry Store Bought Muffins
Big fluffy, moist and tender blueberry muffins with a crunchy streusel topping, like you bought from the store. The kind to sell at the bake sale. These have an extra large muffin top, welcome only on muffins. Unlike store bought blueberry muffins, these are...
Brioche Bread
Brioche bread is soft and fluffy, made with a slightly sweet enriched dough of butter and eggs. You will find yourself marvelling that you made this, as you slowly pull layers apart. I always do! “What can I say about Brioche?'' I said out loud. My...
British style Scone recipe
A British style scone recipe is different from a North American style scone recipe in that it has less sugar and less fat, at best, in the form of butter. This is because they would be served between breakfast and lunch with sweet and buttery or creamy spreads on the...
Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka Bread
This beautiful Babka needs a lot of rising time and a stand mixer or a regular one and a love of kneading, but as something you have been meaning to make, or need to make, a challenge, that is great because you will have Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka Bread that is...
Strawberry Loaf Cake
This is such a beautiful loaf cake. I love to watch this simply spiced Strawberry Loaf rise. As with all baking with fruit, use your best local, ripe, I would suggest organic, strawberries. I originally made this, to make strawberry bread pudding.I rarely have the...
Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
I recently saw Chocolate Hot Cross Buns and thought, what a great idea! Same soft yeasty bread and inviting aroma, with chocolate replacing some or all of the dried fruit, lighter on the spice, maybe, and chocolate marking instead of white.Is that ok? There is a lot...
Hot Cross Buns
Don’t make me sing One a penny, two a penny...most people don’t know much more of the song. Ha ha. (I do). Hot Cross Buns are made from an enriched dough which has basic good bread ingredients with the addition of sweetener, fat and usually milk. Brioche, Cinnamon...
Cream Scones
These are delicious, on the sweeter side, melt in your mouth cream scones. I cut in diamonds because they are fine and rich, and sparkly if you sprinkle with sugar! Any cut shape will do though.They are flakey, almost like pastry. Cream Scones would work very well for...
Cranberry Scones with Lemon Glaze
Fresh cranberries are so good for you. They are full of fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants and anthocyanins, those flavenoids that keep our blood vessels healthy and keep us youthful and our eyesight strong. We usually have to consume them dried with cherry essence...
Dried Blueberry Teacakes
We have Biscuits and Scones, And tea biscuits and Teacakes. A teacake, well, it could be anything really. I have had some that are yeast risen and more like a sweet dinner roll, like a hot cross bun. I also remember getting a package from Marks and Spencer that...
Blueberry Scones
Blueberry scones? Blueberry biscuits? Unlike biscuits, scones usually don't use baking soda with an acid to activate it, like buttermilk or sour cream. They also tend to be on the sweet side, rather than savory. Commercial scones are most often triangular, but not...
Blueberry Buckle
The blueberry buckle is a variety of cobbler, but much more lovely than it's cousins, "Betty" and "Pan Dowdy". As I share my blueberry recipes, some can be made with either fresh or frozen blueberries. This is possibly one, especially since I encourage using organic...
Blueberry Afternoon Dessert Bread
Or Afternoon Tea, Second Breakfast, or First. I don’t really know what else to call it. Until I think of something better, because that’s what it is. It has a beautiful dough that is a pleasure to work with. It freezes well and toasts nicely. There is a lot of rising...
Oatmeal Muffins
When does streusel not make something better? I have made these without the streusel though and used a scant cup of raisins. I have also used both.How to Make Oatmeal Streusel MuffinsINGREDIENTS Makes about 16 muffins Prep Time - 25 minutes Oat Soaking Time - 30...
Oatmeal with Steel Cut Oats
Steel cut oats are the least processed in the oatmeal family, and because they contain more fiber and density than their slightly processed counterparts, they take longer to cook. Being the least of the processed oatmeal oats, this will need more liquid than the other...
Oatmeal Granola
Granola is so good and so versatile! Versatile in its optional and interchangeable ingredients, but also that you can add milk or yogurt, its larger chunks can be a snack, you can have it for breakfast, like cookies in milk or, you can have it for dinner. If you...
Oatmeal Scones
Scones? Biscuits? Well, off the top of my head, scones are more Scottish, or English tea time, although a biscuit could be as well, but biscuits are more American, as in sausage and biscuits or dumplings. Biscuits tend to be savoury (but not always) and scones are...