Bake or Break

Cinnamon-Apple Scones

View a printable recipe or more photos The last time we visited our friends in North Carolina, Tonya and I visited Foster’s Market for lunch. Our lunch was fantastic, and the market offered so many delicious looking items that I wanted to take them all home and give them a try. While Tonya was here [...]

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Quick Sticky Biscuits

View a printable recipe or more photos I first saw Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey at a bookstore a few months ago. After a brief flip-through, I added it to my ever-growing cookbook wish list. Finally, I bought a copy and sat down with it to give it a good study. My thoughts about this book [...]

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Zimtsterne

View the original recipe or more photos Quinn tends to be a bit more ambitious in my baking than I am. He thought these cookies would be a great addition to my holiday baking roster. I agreed that they looked and sounded delicious, but I wasn’t sure about the painstaking efforts involved in making them. [...]

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Snickerdoodles & Chocodoodles

View a printable recipe or more photos Today’s holiday baking offering is a Snickerdoodle that offers a little twist as an option for chocolate fans. As many cookies as I’ve baked, I have never made Snickerdoodles, one of the most common cookies around. I actually have a good reason for never having made them. As [...]

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Brown Sugar Cinnamon Biscotti

View a printable recipe or more photos I was tasked this week with baking something that Quinn’s parents could take with them to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. I started thinking about what kind of baked good would be most likely to survive an airplane ride, and decided that biscotti would be just the thing. I [...]

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Cinnamon Crown Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos So, today is National Bundt Day. I’m still a bit unclear as to whether this day is for the cake or the pan, but I figure they’re a package deal. I do love a Bundt cake. I like that they are usually self-contained sweet satisfaction. There’s no icing [...]

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