Yes, that's right, today's featured recipe is Monkey Brains. This delicious sweet bread, has many other names as well. Probably the most known is Monkey Bread. Other names it goes by is bubbleloaf, sticky bread, coffee cake, but my favorite name for this is Monkey Brains. Not to gross you out, but the name reminds me of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when Indiana and the lounge singer are di ...

I love to bake breads, all kinds of breads. Recently we discovered a bakery close to our house that has a lot of great goodies. We bought this cranberry bread and it was good, but it was kind of lacking in cranberries. So I thought why not try and make one myself. Except I wanted to make it a bit more special and decided to add some cream cheese filling as well. You know until recently I was sort of afraid ...

Ok, who doesn't love cinnamon rolls? Well I do and I love the smell of cinnamon rolls as they are baking more than anything. These rolls are delicious and you can either have them with icing, or no icing.  I prefer no icing, considering they have enough calories as it is without the icing, but I did make some because my husband loves the icing. Don't be afraid of making cinnamon rolls, honestly they are ver ...

Oh let me tell you this is a treat. This is a favorite at every Christmas or Easter in Romania and you will find it on everyone's table wherever you go.  This is my mother in law's recipe and it is the best. It may be a bit of work, but trust me when I tell you it is worth it.  It will take you about 4 hours to make and that includes the time it takes for the dough to rise.  This recipe works best with fres ...

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 ...

I love Saturday mornings, don't you. I can sleep in and when I wake up I can actually have a nice cup of coffee at home. But I woke up this morning, craving cinnamon bread. I love cinnamon bread especially for breakfast. However, I was not to have the cinnamon bread for breakfast, as it would take a while for the dough to rise, but I did end up having it later in the afternoon and it was still as good. And ...

Well I love chocolate and I love banana bread, so anytime you pair these two together, it's a winner for me.  This banana bread makes for a perfect breakfast idea especially when you're in a rush.  As a matter of fact this is what I did this morning, took a slice of this wonderful marbled chocolate banana bread and had it at work for breakfast, with a cup of good coffee, mmm, just delicious. [amd-zlrecipe-r ...

Banana bread is one of my favorite things to make when I have a sweet tooth.  It is one of the easiest things to make, you don't really need a mixer for it, you can whisk everything yourself in a bowl, so less cleaning and the most important advantage, banana bread is just so delicious and moist, I love it. Now here's a recipe that doesn't require any nuts, so if you have a nut allergy this banana bread is ...

Poppy Seed Roll and Walnut Bread or roll are a symbol of a Romanian Christmas, so I've grown up with these types of desserts my entire life.  I love making them, for me baking is very therapeutic. It relaxes me and when I see the final result it makes me very happy.  This poppy seed roll is so delicious and wonderful, you'll love it. [caption id="attachment_312" align="aligncenter" width="610" caption="popp ...

I make banana nut bread a lot, mostly because whenever we buy bananas we buy more than we end up eating and we end up with very ripe bananas that nobody likes to eat.  This is a banana nut bread recipes that I always use and it's great.  Easy to make and you don't even need a mixer, just mix everything by hand. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:64] Enjoy! ...