Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns Recipe

It’s Easter week and my sous-chef dish-washing mom and I are invited to a friend’s house tomorrow.  I want to take a little something to the hostess.  It is the southern way after all.  After church, I decided to make Hot Cross Buns. These buns are a delicious, fragrant and beautiful addition to any Easter … Read more

TWD: Finnish Pulla Braid & A Cookbook Giveaway!

It’s Tuesdays With Dorie and this week we baked Finnish Pulla from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking With Julia.  From Wikipedia:  Pulla (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpulːɑ]) is a mildly-sweet Finnish sweet roll or dessert bread flavored with crushed cardamom seeds and occasionally raisins or sliced almonds.  Prior to last week if you asked me what I knew about … Read more