Baking Delights: Baking breads and treats for your family

June 6th, 2008

National Donut Day

 
Thanks to Sandi at All Holiday Cafe for reminding me that today is….DONUT DAY! YAY!
As you know, I love donuts, love to make donuts…love to eat them too but they do bad bad things to my thighs.  I try to make them about once a week.

The key  to good donuts is
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March 24th, 2008

Once A Month Cooking: Mmmmmmm…Maple Pecan Donuts!

 
Once a month cooking is a great way to have awesome breakfasts every day!
So by know you all know that I like donuts, right? I mean they show up here pretty regularly.  These are a fantastic variation, just right with a cup of coffee in the morning.
A great way to make donuts ahead of time […]

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March 21st, 2008

Lemon Filled Doughnuts Wake Up Easter Breakfast

Since the flood on Tuesday we have had the nicest weather imaginable. It has been sunny, warm, and even the mud has about disappeared. The water brought the grass forth from the earth, and the flowers are beginning to bloom. Everywhere I look I see redbud trees, wild plum, iris, tulips, and […]

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October 18th, 2007

New Orleans Rice Calas

First of all, I know calas are not baked. They are fried. However not enough of you have tasted traditional New Orleans Rice Calas because if you had they would be plastered all over blogs everywhere, and they are not. I do try to concentrate on baked things mostly but sometimes we […]

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August 6th, 2007

Banana Cake Doughnuts (or Donuts)

 Our weekend is a little different than most. Since Marc works retail he works on Saturday and then has Sunday and Monday off. Sunday is really not a day off because there is church a good portion of the day.  Monday is our more leisurely day, although I don’t know if leisurely is a word […]

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June 13th, 2007

Gingerbread Doughnuts

 
You can’t imagine how good these are with a steaming mug of coffee. I like them in the autumn because they seem like such an autumn-y food but sometimes I just get a craving for them in June..
If you don’t have an electric deep fryer do think about getting one..It makes it so much more […]

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May 26th, 2007

When it is just too hot to bake

Is it ever? Here it does get that way. We are in hte midst of restoring an old house, 4300 sq ft, and we do not use the air conditioning in the summer. There are benefits to that….at 112 degrees with no a/c  noone expects you to do very much..Summers become, once again, the lazy […]

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