A simple and very tasty recipe, and a wonderful family bake. Banana bread is a wonderful recipe. It has the air of being healthy because of all of the fruit in there, and it is fairly simple to make. With a few standard tools and tricks, you’ll be able to turn this into a moist, sweet loaf. Just like the cupcakes, this is a nice recipe to make with your kids. But with fruit!
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Continue ReadingMy mother’s 40-year old recipe still creates the best apple pie in the whole world. It’s not a secret: the Dutch are good at making apple pie. A treat for a birthday party, a well-deserved snack with a glass of hot chocolate after a afternoon of shopping in the city,…
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Continue ReadingCrepes, wait, are those the really thin pancakes? OMG, I love those! We all know the American pancakes, and maybe you’ve even tried the Dutch ones. But having crepes (or “craypes”, as Ricky Bobby calls them) in your repertoire means you can up your game. You have breakfast, lunch (or…
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Continue ReadingThese bread rolls are baked all over the world and they have many names: they’re called buns, rolls, baps, kadetjes and bolletjes (little balls). And they are super versatile! This recipe for soft bread rolls will yield delicious yeasted buns, with a hint of sugar and a little bit of…
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Continue ReadingThe Best Air You’ll Ever Have Cream puffs use choux pastry and that makes them amazing, light and airy, filled with a sweet vanilla cream. You bake them 18 at the time, which is good, because that’s also the rate you’ll eat them at. You can buy the pastry but…
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Continue ReadingFire and Water UPDATE – Since I first tried this recipe, I took another look at improving it. I wasn’t too pleased with the color of the bun: a direct result of unbleached flour, making it grey more than white. I replaced the unbleached AP flour with bleached flour. Not…