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Cheddar Quick Bread with Cherries

February 27, 2012 By + 42 Comments

Baking from scratch really can be quick and easy!!!  Easy you say?  Absolutely!  Boring?  Not a chance!

Cheddar Quick Bread with Cherries | From My Sweet Heart

The Daring Bakers‘ February 2012 host was – Lis!  Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own.  She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and make new flavor profiles. 

The only rules for this Daring Bakers challenge is that the bread would contain no yeast and take no longer than an hour and a half to prepare.  While Lisa offered a great base recipe and some wonderful suggestions, this time we were allowed to make any quick bread that we wanted.  So I decided to share one of my favorites….. [Read more...]

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Croissants

September 27, 2011 By + 32 Comments

BON MATIN MES AMIS!

Croissants | From My Sweet Heart

The Daring Bakers go retro this month!  Thanks to one of our very talented non-blogging members, Sarah, the Daring Bakers were challenged to make croissants using a recipe from the Queen of French Cooking, none other than Julia Child!

Well this is my first assignment as a Daring Baker!  And what a doozy as I was challenged to once again stare down my old nemesis…..pastry dough!  (I was secretly hoping for some kind of fancy cake to build my confidence!)  But truthfully, pastry dough would not be my nemesis if I just worked with it more often!  So this turned out to be a good exercise for me.  These turned out quite light, fluffy, and buttery.  And amazingly, something that took 14 hours to prepare, were gone in less than 1!  Relieved to have this first challenge under my belt and looking forward to more! [Read more...]

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