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Jane's Sweets & Baking Journal focuses on homemade baked goods and sweets of all kinds; anything that falls into the category of the "baking and pastry arts." Recipes are included in most posts, as are many links to blogs and websites on related topics; books on baking are also highlighted in sidebars. Includes food photos and "recipe process photos."
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Recent Posts Tagged With 'quick bread'
Jul 09
There's a lot of enthusiastic chatter in the food-blog world lately about cherries. After all, they're in season right now; have you noticed? Because if you haven't, you'd better take heed--those little beauties won't be around long. I'm talkin (read full article)
black cherries, buttermilk muffins, cherry muffins, double cherry muffins, fruit, jumbo muffins, jumbo sweet cherry muffins, michigan cherries, muffins, Queen Anne cherries
Jun 23
You know strawberry season is coming to a rapid close in Michigan when you head to your favorite "u-pick" farm and the berry patch is almost deserted. One morning this week, my friend Cathy and I went to Verellen Orchards, a nice spot abo (read full article)
breakfast breads, flax seed meal, fruit, fruit bread, Michigan strawberries, quick bread, strawberries, strawberry bread, strawberry-banana bread
Jun 20
Here we are, moving into the tail end of June, and the onslaught of bright, fresh, summer produce is finally upon us. Among other things, this means that we now have access to a multitude of reasonably priced, and adorably cute, apricots.A sensitive (read full article)
apricot muffins, apricots, cinnamon, cinnamon chips, cinnamon muffins, muffins, quick bread
Mar 12
There's something unusually fun about making enormous muffins. I don't know what it is, exactly, but the very lack of delicacy is curiously liberating. They're a hoot to prepare, and a real hoot to serve.The day I made these, I had to pick up my olde (read full article)
Blueberries, blueberry muffins, buttermilk muffins, jumbo muffins, muffins, quick bread
Feb 15
There's an old but enduring health food store not far from the house where I grew up, and I stopped there last Friday on the way home from visiting my father. He still lives in that same house, along with one of my older siblings, and once a week I c (read full article)
almond streusel, coconut almond bread with dark chocolate chips, coconut bread, Dark Chocolate, quick bread
Oct 03
Sometimes it's hard to decide just what to put into a recipe, especially an inherently flexible recipe like a quick-bread. There are so many choices. It can be a wee bit scary--that terrifying cornucopia of options. But other times, on days you're (read full article)
bread, cherries, dried cherries, pear bread, pears, quick bread
Jul 24
What does one do with a five-pound bag of large-shredded, unsweetened coconut? Unless you're planning to open a macaroon shop sometime soon, you probably have no business purchasing that much. Think about it bakers . . . five pounds is a lot of cocon (read full article)
Baking Bites (blog), coconut, coconut bread, coconut-lime bread, Detroit Farmers Market, lime, lime glaze, quick bread
Jul 19
My major mission this Saturday had nothing to do with muffins. No, my critical mission took the form of an ice cream cake, constructed in concert with my son in preparation for his early 13th birthday celebration, a celebration that took place this e (read full article)
berry muffins, Blueberries, muffins, quick bread, strawberries
Jun 30
I started out this evening thinking I'd just make some run o' the mill banana bread or banana muffins. I had two ultra ripe bananas to use up. We've frequently got a couple of senior-citizen bananas laying around here, offering themselves up for jus (read full article)
breakfast muffins, coconut, hearty muffins, morning glory muffins, muffins, muffins with carrots, muffins with coconut, muffins with raisins, quick bread
Jun 21
I found a small zucchini languishing in my vegetable drawer yesterday. It was just on the precipice of being overly ripe. I'll bet you have one like it languishing somewhere in your kitchen too. (Come on, I know you do. Go back and check that refrig (read full article)
Chocolate, chocolate chips, peach sour cream pie, quick bread, sour cream zucchini bread, sour cream zucchini bread with chocolate chips, zucchini bread
May 29
Can peaches and nectarines fraternize successfully? Is one more deserving of respect than the other? My opinion? "Yes" to the former, and a resounding "no" to the latter.There are those among us who cringe at the velveteen-like fuzz of the peach, the (read full article)
King Arthur Flour, nectarine bread, nectarines, peach bread, peaches, quick bread, whole wheat peach bread