Category: Baking

Spinach Pesto Braided Bread Wreath

Stop the presses- I’m alive! I know it’s been over a month since my last post, my sincerest apologies, and I would love to tell you about all the wonderful adventures I’ve had since then, but today, let’s focus on this beautiful braided baby. Ain’t she a beaut? To all of you who are declaring November ‘No-Bread Month’, I’m…

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Apricot Almond Chia Granola Bars with Yogurt Drizzle

Confession Time: I have loathed peanut butter since I was 7 years old. Before I was 7, I loved peanut butter and put it on virtually everything I ate. From crackers to sandwiches to rice (it’s a Zimbabwean delicacy along with kale and peanut butter) I could not get enough of the stuff. Until one…

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Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Gutentag to all you lovelies out there reading this! Today I bring you these chewy chocolate chunk cookies, and I dare you to try saying that 3 times fast. Everybody has a different idea of what their ideal chocolate chip cookie looks like. If you’re my dad, then you want thin, crunchy cookies. If you’re my…

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Homemade Challah Bread

Thank the Jews for giving us this versatile bread.Challah is not something that is readily available in supermarkets/bakeries where I live, so it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that I’m only discovering it now. I’d skimmed over countless French toast and bread pudding recipes in the past and wonder what was challah and why…

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Cinnamon coffee infused granola 

If you want your kitchen to smell like a Starbucks, this is what you should make. Granola is like the improved version of muesli. If muesli was a basket of fries, granola would be loaded with a wicked garlic cheese sauce, herbs and all the fixings. Spoiler alert.  The thing I love most about granola…

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