The last week has been busy with lots of baking. I finally finished my biscotti baking with six different kinds. I baked the Triple Cinnamon Pecan biscotti, and the other five were just variations on this basic recipe. The top light one is the almond biscotti with no substitutions. Knocking out three batches in an…
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HB in Five Master Recipe
I know I’ve not kept up with the HB in Five baking group. I really intended on baking my way through the book this year with them, but it just didn’t happen. I did bake a couple loaves this past week to have with my vegetable soup. If you’ve still not tried this technique and…
Read MoreHB in Five – Mixed Berry Muffins
One of our challenges this week was to make either bread or muffins from the Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Bread recipe in HB in Five. Even though we are knee deep in blackberries, I wanted to follow the directions and use frozen berries. I used some of our blackberries from last year’s crop. Some might…
Read MoreHB in Five: Turkish-Style Pita Bread
This week one of our challenges was making Turkish-Style Pita Bread. This uses the master recipe dough from this book. I didn’t have black sesame seeds so I used regular sesame and poppy seeds. Here is a closer look at the crumb. I was expecting a pita which is much thinner. This turned out with…
Read MoreHB in Five: Chocolate Espresso WW Cupcakes
This week, one of the baking challenges involved the Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Brioche dough. I just couldn’t resist making cupcakes! I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate so I substituted semisweet chocolate chips. Well, I asked my expert taste tester and head chef Dave what he thought about this recipe. He agreed with me that this…
Read MoreHB in Five – Olive Spelt and Carrot Bread
This week our HB in Five Bread Challenge included two great recipes: Olive Spelt Bread and Carrot Bread. The first bread I tackled was the Olive Spelt, which I made into buns. This recipe calls for twice the amount of spelt to unbleached all purpose flour. If you are not familiar with spelt flour, it’s…
Read MoreHB in Five Mid-March Buns
This week for our HB in Five Bread Challenge we made two great breads – Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread. Both of these were great breads – easy and fun to make. Unlike the others in the group, I have just been making buns because that’s what we like to eat with soup,…
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