Making life a little sweeter since 2012
One of my personal favorites for an extra special holiday breakfast is cinnamon buns. Soft and buttery yeast dough filled with whatever your heart desires. These here are filled with hazelnuts and apricot jam and are super easy to make, and you can even prep them a day ahead! Simply place the finished buns in the fridge overnight and let them rise in the morning. Bake, done, enjoy!
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Holy pumpkin what a game changer: Golden Vanilla Pumpkin Bread. Actually, it is so incredibly moist and fluffy, I should call it a loaf cake rather than a bread (more on that below). You know when cake is so moist that when you squeeze it it makes that moist squishy sound? Yep, exactly that. Now, I am a huge fan of pumpkin spice, don’t get me wrong, and I love me some classic pumpkin bread. But I also love, LOVE vanilla – probably one of my absolute favorite flavors – and this pumpkin bread is made with a whole vanilla bean instead of pumpkin spice. That’s right. NO pumpkin spice here. The flavor of the vanilla bean (and don’t skip the whole bean, vanilla extract won’t do, sorry) is so intense and goes insanely well with the pumpkin….
Tis the season! The season to cozy up with some coffee or tea and watch Christmas movies, the season to listen to Christmas music aaaaall day long and of course the season to bake. And, the season for Christmas sweets, mulled wine and eggnog! My family in Germany is pretty big on all those things. We actually used to make eggnog ourselves (maybe I should post that recipe here, if I can find it?). So this year I decided to make this Eggnog Layer Cake with Apricot Filling. Although we never made eggnog cake for Christmas growing up, this still very much reminds me of my childhood Christmases. And reminiscing about the good old Christmas days back in Germany, what better and more appropriate filling for this cake than HERO apricot fruit spread.
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I am a little late with this post, I actually made these Holiday Spice Buns for Thanksgiving morning this year. They were a hit, to say the least! I decided to start this as a family tradition, because it makes Thanksgiving day breakfast more festive and starts the day off right… and I just love, love love, yeast buns. Well, anything yeast, really. So I did a lot of recipe searching and tweaking before I ended up with these and I nailed it! Soft, fluffy, delicious. I will stick to this recipe for sure and make these again… like for Christmas.
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This Cranberry Vanilla Pie might be your pumpkin pie alternative for Thanksgiving this year. It’s festive, easy and delicious! If you’re like my family tough and won’t budge on the pumpkin pie, this will also make a great dessert for Christmas, or just anytime during the holiday season….
It is finally that time of year again when pumpkins are popping up everywhere, leaves are turning, the weather is getting cold and pumpkin spice is in the air. Well, sort of. It definitely is if you are making these Baked Pumpkin Brioche Donuts with Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing! These yeast donuts are baked but can be fried, if you’re up to it. Brioche donuts contain significantly more eggs and a whole lot more butter than regular yeast donuts which makes them richer and just, well, more delicious in my opinion. These babies here also contain pumpkin and pumpkin spice – the perfect treat for Halloween and Thanksgiving, or, really any time during this cozy season. …
Well, what a lazy cozy sunday. Hurricane Harvey brought quite some rain to Dallas this weekend so we spend the day at home making this super easy and delicious, old fashioned Blackberry Cobbler. I’ve been making this recipe for years now and I’m glad I finally came around to posting it. It is actually the first and only cobbler recipe I ever made and it was so super easy and delicious, I stuck with it. And before I forget to mention it: serving this with vanilla bean ice cream is a MUST!…
As if there’s not enough food during the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m gonna add this super decadent Pumpkin Hummingbird Cake with Maple Buttercream to the menu. Can never have enough cake, right? This is a fally twist on the classic replacing the banana with pumpkin and adding maple sirup to the buttercream!
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Happy (late) Thanksgiving! I know this it comes a day late, but hey, the next Thanksgiving holiday is not far and christmas is just around the corner. And if you like good old Pumpkin Pie you will love this Pumpkin Brulée Tart with Gingerbread Crust! It takes your traditional Thanksgiving dessert to the next level. Promise.
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my name is Melina, I’m a passionate cake baker/eater and food photographer born and raised in Germany... Read More…
