Warm, soft, sweet and full of flavor. These brioche style cinnamon buns are so good. I used brown sugar in the dough with a touch of cinnamon that adds a rustic sweet flavor. The cream cheese topping adds a richness as it melts over the cinnamon buns and seeps into the cracks of the buns. [...]

Here’s a beautiful loaf of bread, that’s not only stunning to look at, but delicious to eat. Coconut milk is a great substitute for cow’s milk in bread. The milk doesn’t have a strong flavor, but the hint of coconut is there. You can find a lot of quick bread recipes for coconut in them, [...]

Everyone loves the classic flavors of cinnamon and melted butter and sugar in a delicious Monkey Bread. Well, how about a little twist to this old favorite. With the combination of lemon juice, cream cheese and sugar. You will get a combination that I’m sure will become the next classic. Monkey bread is one of [...]

Boy, this is one hot summer we’re having here in Vancouver. The heat wave is giving us temperatures around 95 to 100. Way to hot for me. Really, we’re not use to temperatures like this. It makes it very hard to bake in the kitchen these days. So, I decided to make something quick and [...]

I think the number one homemade bread in North America has to be the infamous banana bread. Anyone who has ever made a loaf of bread at home has made a banana bread at some point, I’m sure. Well, have you ever eaten a banana bread made with yeast? The texture and flavor is amazing [...]

These funky, crazy doughnuts are so much fun. They’re not a light, fluffy doughnut that you would get at you local doughnut shop. These doughnuts use no yeast or baking powder, they are soft yet chewy and with a firm texture to them. The ingredients are very simple and anyone can make this. They do [...]

Doesn’t the name and photos of these delicious danishes make your mouth start to water? I just love the soft rich buttery flavor of this Danish Pastry. I found the recipe for Danish dough in the Professional Baking Cookbook. This recipe is more for an intermediate baker, but the step by step instructions that I [...]

Fall has come around again, the leaves are turning color and the apples are starting to fall from the trees. But, what to do with all those apple other than making apple sauce and apple pies . Well, I have a wonderful recipe that you can use those apples in. It’s an Apple Tart Bread, [...]

When writing this I was wondering whether to call them a donut or doughnut! I know that the name is interchangeable; but I was curious as to what you would call them? I usually write doughnut when I talk about these super delicious tasty treats. Anyway, onto why I made doughnuts this week. My sister [...]

Each week, I never know what I’m going to make for the blog. I like it to be a little spontaneous even though I think it drives my sister crazy. She always asks me “what are we making next week”, so I can prepare for it or think about it throughout the week. I always [...]