Bake or Break

Chocolate Chip-Hazelnut Scones

During my time at King Arthur Flour’s Blog & Bake™, I found a new love. Now, don’t worry. Quinn is not going anywhere. I found a new baking love – white whole wheat flour.

Sure, I’d seen it before, but I always kind of discounted it and went with traditional wheat flour when needed. But, I found out that white whole wheat flour has all the benefits of whole wheat flour, but it produces lighter-colored baked goods with a milder flavor. There’s red wheat, where we get whole wheat flour, and then there’s white spring wheat, which gives us white whole wheat flour.

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Blueberry Sour Cream Mini Muffins {Plus a J.R. Watkins Giveaway}

As that collection of recipes last Friday hopefully conveyed, I love baking with berries. I love all kinds of berries, but if I have to pick a favorite berry, I would likely choose blueberries. And, one of my favorite uses for blueberries is muffins.

Just to make these blueberry muffins even better, I used one of my favorite baking ingredients – sour cream. I love the texture and flavor that it adds. These little muffins are everything you’d want in a blueberry muffin. They are seriously dangerous, though, because you’ll be tempted to eat one right after another.

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Weekly Mix: Breakfast Baking

Happy Friday, my baking friends! I’m not sure where this week has gone, but I imagine it’s mired somewhere in all the baking I’ve done this week. I’ve lost count of the pounds of butter and flour I’ve gone through in the last few days.

In addition to my regular amount of baking, I am also baking many, many cookies for the NYC Bake Sale that’s happening at Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene this Saturday. If you’re not familiar with this big event, it features baked goods from New York area food bloggers and local bakeries. Trust me, that’s some good stuff. Plus, all proceeds benefit No Kid Hungry, a national nonprofit organization that’s helping to end childhood hunger by 2015.

In BoB news, you may have noticed a theme this week. Breakfast was the hot topic as we started out with Mocha Muffins and moved to Cinnamon Roll Cake. It was really unintentional, but I figure we’ll just keep going with it today.

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Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl

I toyed with the idea of having this be the shortest description of a recipe I’ve ever written by simply writing: This is the best coffee cake ever. But, I thought maybe you’d want to know why this is the best coffee cake ever.

One of the reasons for that declaration is the texture of the cake. It is so amazingly soft and light. It’s one of the most easy-to-eat cakes I’ve ever had.

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Raspberry Cream Cheese Buns

I am usually not quite motivated enough to bake anything for breakfast. Once in a while, however, I find some recipe that gives me that push I need to get myself up and in the kitchen. This is one of those recipes.

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Chocolate Monkey Bread

Lazy weekend mornings are few and far between for most of us. For those rare occasions when you can wake up without an alarm clock and have nothing on your calendar, treats like these just seem to make those days even better.

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