A Beautiful Star Bread using an Easy Dough Recipe We wanted to make an enriched dough recipe that was easy, cheaper to make and had endless possibilities when it came to making more intricate recipes such as rolls, braided cinnamon buns, and this lovely easy star bread. To make it more...
Who Doesn't Love a Stuffed Braided Bread? Perhaps you have mastered our easy enriched dough recipe that we promised had endless possibilities and wanted to see what else you could make. How about a stuffed braided bread? And what if we played off our rich heritage and made a fancier WV pepperoni...
A Little Background on this Buttermilk Biscuit Recipe in a Smaller Portion Buttermilk biscuits recipe is a simple quick bread that is said to has origins from Scotland. By modifying bannock, a Scottish fry bread which often used wheat and oat flour, they invented the first scone recipe....
A Little Bit About this Quick and Easy Vanilla Cake Recipe We adore this quick and easy vanilla cake recipe. Much like our chocolate cake, this is a vanilla cake recipe without butter. Instead, we take advantage of using buttermilk and oil to create a light and moist cake. As a result, this...
A Little History on this Buttermilk Pie Recipe A buttermilk pie recipe is to be one of the many desperation pies that were invented during times of hardship like the World Wars or the Great Depression. It is a simple pie with very little ingredients that has evolved over the years. Although it is...
A Little Guide to Making Braided Cinnamon Buns Recently, you learned how to make an easy dough recipe with endless possibilities. We promised we would show you more delicious ways to use this bread dough and these braided cinnamon buns are one of many delicious examples. These look very...
A Little Guide to Making Jammy Biscuits This Jammy Biscuits Recipe is made with a shortcrust pastry dough to have a short and tender crumb structure and has a jammy center of your favorite flavored jam. Raspberry is the most popular as it has a bit of bite to balance out the sweetness of jams and...
A Little Guide on How to Blind Bake a Pie Crust or Tart Shell Learning how to blind bake a pie shell is an essential skill to learn if you want to make pies that are perfect for cooled fillings such as pudding, custards and berry compotes. By blind baking, you are either par-baking or fully baking...
A Little Background on this Sweet Shortcrust Pastry Recipe Sweet shortcrust pastry is also known as pâte sucrée. This sweet shortcrust pastry recipe is perfect for custard tarts, cream pies, jammy biscuits and other sandwich cookies. This recipe is pretty easy to do and will make enough for a...
A Little Background on this Enriched Sweet Shortcrust Pastry Recipe Pâte sablée is a crumbly, flaky enriched sweet shortcrust pastry that is perfect for desserts such as custard tarts, sandwich cookies and pumpkin pie. This recipe will make a single pie or tart shell. Before we get to the...
A Little Background on Enriched Shortcrust Pastry This is an enriched shortcrust pastry recipe otherwise known as pâte à foncer. It is very similar to pâte brisée, but is enriched with egg to make the pastry easier to roll out and hold its shape. This traditional short crust pastry recipe is...
A Little Background on this Traditional Shortcrust Pastry Recipe This is a pie shell recipe for shortcrust pastry otherwise known as pâte brisée. This traditional short crust pastry recipe is big enough to make a single pie crust or tart shell. There are four main types of shortcrust pastry...
A Little Guide to Baking 6" Cheesecakes We love cheesecake! And this 6" cheesecake recipe is the perfect size. We love our classic cheesecake recipe but has just become to be too much food as our lives have changed. There simply isn't the need for larger sized desserts at this stage in our lives....
A Little Background on Thumbprint Cookies Thumbprint cookies are one of those old-fashioned yet classic recipes. It is a soft buttery shortbread cookie rolled in toasted chopped nuts and topped with a dollop of your favorite jam in the center. The cookie is not very sweet much like a traditional...
A Little Background on this Easy Dough Recipe with Endless Possibilities We wanted to make an enriched dough recipe that was easy to knead by hand or machine, used a modest amount of dough, tasted delicious on its own and had endless possibilities when it came to making more intricate recipes such...