This was my first time making brioche bread. I've been wanting it to make for a long time, specifically Ina Garten's Brioche bread recipe from Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home. I'm not one to be afraid of making any type of bread, I love it and enjoy it. But a brioche bread isn't just like any bread. Brioche is in fact a pastry, a french pastry. It is very high in butter and eggs and ...

I've finally made the perfect biscuit. I don't know what was in my head to make a mozzarella biscuit. Well I'll tell you what. Personally I like mozzarella cheese over cheddar cheese, and that's the only cheese I had. Usually I make these biscuits with buttermilk, but I didn't have any, so I used regular milk. I wasn't sure how these puppies were going to turn out, but I was going for a big and fluffy biscu ...

Honestly, how many recipes for jam filled buns can one person have. Well I love any type of jam filled buns, so I will try all sort of recipes, in search for the ONE. I love this type of sweet yeast dough. I like to fill them with different things, add raisins to them, or just plain. The possibilities are endless. In Romania, there are many such recipes and they are very popular. These buns are so tender an ...

If you've ever been to a Chinese bakery you have seen this type of meat buns among many other delicious goodies. These buns are also called pork buns, or Char Siu Bao which basically is a barbecued pork filled bun. They can be either steamed or baked as I chose to make mine. I have never tried the steamed ones, only baked, but I'm sure they are just as good. Char Siu refers to the pork filling and bao means ...

I have to be honest here and tell you that until recently I have been scared of making croissants. I thought they would be hard to make and that it's something that it better be left to the french since they are the experts in this field. However, curiosity won in this case. As they say, curiosity leads us to the path of risk, but then what is life without risk. So the perfect opportunity presented itself t ...

I love these sweet rolls, they are perfect for a Saturday or Sunday morning.  I woke up this morning around 6:30 and was in the mood for something sweet like cinnamon rolls, but I didn't have any, so I decided to make my own sweet rolls.  My husband was still sleeping so by the time he woke up the house smelled like home made sweet rolls and freshly brewed coffee.  It was great, that's the reason I love wee ...

I made these apple and pecan cinnamon rolls a couple weeks ago and did not get a chance to post them until now. They were good. They were fabulous. I mean who does not love cinnamon rolls. They're gooey and sweet and simply delicious. They're to die for. The perfect weekend breakfast. And when you add pecans and apples, well it's a marriage made in heaven. I dare you to make these and then come and tell me ...

Happy Remembrance Day everyone! I am so glad it's a long weekend. I love long weekends and what better way to celebrate than with a nice home baked bread, filling your house of heavenly aromas. This egg bread is a sweet raisin bread with lots of eggs and it's so delicious and this bread could be made anytime, but traditionally it may be served at Easter or Christmas. This recipe will make 2 big loaves, so y ...

Thank God it's the weekend.  Started off in the morning by making my dinner rolls and that wasn't enough and I was trying to figure out what else to do. Now I love bread sticks, so I have this recipe for these thin bread sticks called grissini. If you've never had these before, you'd love them. Grissini is basically pencil sized dry bread sticks that are crispy. You can sprinkle whatever you like on them, l ...

Here's a fun alternative to the traditional hot dogs. These rolls are fun to make and I'm sure your children will love them. They are so cute and adorable, and when I saw them I just had to make them. By now you probably know how much I love to bake and if I see something different, I'm eager to try it. This recipe will make 6 rolls and each hot dog roll weighs in at 10 weight watchers points, a great break ...

If you've never made popovers before, you're in for a treat. Popovers are very light and hollow and are made from egg and milk batter. They are so delicious, and honestly when you bite into one, you'll be surprised how light they are. They are called popovers because when you bake them they pop over the top, it's so much fun to watch them in the oven as they rise. According to Wikipedia, popovers are the Am ...

Well I'm back from a long week in San Francisco for the Oracle OpenWorld conference. It was my first time in San Francisco and I have mixed feelings about it. I wish I would have stayed downtown, but as it were, it was one of the busiest times in San Francisco and finding hotels downtown was not an option, unless I would have booked my trip over 6 months ago. However, the conference was great and it was a w ...

I've never made a french baguette before. I always buy them because I love french breads, I love the crust on the outside and the soft interior, one of my favorite breads. But how I'm always up for a baking challenge, I wanted to try and make it myself. I mean, bread is bread, right? You make one bread you can make all sorts of breads. This bread is similar to making the artisan bread in the sense  that the ...

This weekend was a busy weekend. It's my little nephew's one year birthday and my father came to visit. I volunteered to make the cake for Nicholas and that took me a few hours but it looks gorgeous. I will post some pictures later. Yesterday everyone came for dinner here so I wanted to make something special and I decided to bake these gorgeous cinnamon rolls. I saw how these cinnamon rolls were made on a ...

By now you probably know I love to bake. I love to bake cakes, muffins, cookies, rolls and especially breads. There is nothing I love more than the smell of bread baking in the oven. The smell makes me feel so good, it's just very relaxing and comforting for me. I remember a few years ago, before I started experimenting with baking, in a galaxy far far away, my husband bought me a bread machine. I was excit ...