Memorial Day kicks off barbecue season so to help you plan your Memorial Day barbecue, I’m sharing some of my favorite barbecue recipes and some I’d like to try this weekend too.

This Memorial Day I’ll be cooking up one of my favorite burgers, Queso Bacon Burgers with Avocado Salsa. My daughter wants to make sliders instead of full size burgers and I plan on giving Cinnamon & Spice’s Easy Homemade Hamburger Buns recipe a try. Reeni’s also got a burger recipe that I need to try, Homemade Healthier Big Macs.Continue Reading

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A spelt bread dough whipped with the whisk attachment, then left to rise overnight in the refrigerator. The next day the dough is divided in to two pieces and gently twisted in to a pretty free formed loaf. 

It’s time again for the Bread Baking Babes and Buddies challenge. This month’s challenge was selected by Ilva of Lucullian Delights. She has the Babes and Buddies baking from a Nordic cookbook called Home Baked: Nordic Recipes and Techniques for Organic Bread and Pastry by Hanne Risgaard, a whipped bread made with spelt flour. Ilva was intrigued with this recipe because it uses the whisk to whip the dough.Continue Reading

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Instead of frying chicken cutlets in lots of oil, they’re baked so they’re crispy and cheesy, but also healthy and delicious.

Today’s post is my second recipe rewind post. Each month I’ll feature a terrific recipe I posted when I first started blogging that you may have missed. This Lighter Chicken Parmesan recipe is one my daughter makes often and she commented that it needed an update. It’s one of her husband’s favorites.Continue Reading

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A sweet bread dough filled with cream cheese and cherries, “braided” and baked until it’s golden brown, then finished with sweet icing drizzled prettily over the bread. 

Today’s post is another wonderful recipe from the Red Star Yeast website. It’s the second in a series of three posts that I’ve team up with Red Star to bake one of their recipes.  I knew I’d love the recipe even before I made it. I’ve made mock braids in the past and they’re easy to make, and fun to serve because they look impressive and always receive oohs and ahhs.Continue Reading

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Moist, delicious cardamom-orange coffee cake topped with an almond cinnamon sugar topping, baked in cute mini loaf pans so they’re easy to share and sturdy enough to mail to far away friends. 

The Flying Brownie by Shirley Fan is an adorable cookbook with 100 recipes for homemade treats that are perfect for packing and shipping to friends and family. Each recipe includes tips on shipping and there’s a Care Packages 101 section to help you get your treats to your loved ones in just baked condition.Continue Reading

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A quick cooking berry compote made with red raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. A sweet sauce for your favorite breakfast or dessert. 

Sustainable Cooking For One is my Secret Recipe Club blog this month. Eating sustainably is an important element of Stephanie’s kitchen, so her recipes are healthy, low or no meat, and focus on in-season and local foods. Her cookbook One Bowl: Simple Healthy Recipes for One has tips and recipes for cooking healthy meals for one.Continue Reading

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Tender crepes filled with a rich, lemon ricotta filling and topped with a quick berry compote.

Today’s recipe is from Lauren’s Latest new eCookbook, Everyday Ingredients Extraordinary Food. It’s available as a downloadable PDF that you can read on your computer, iPad or iPhone.Continue Reading

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Luscious, creamy New York style cheesecake with a crumbly Oreo cookie crust and topped with fresh strawberries drizzled with a strawberry glaze.

Cheesecake is my son-in-law’s favorite dessert. For his birthday my daughter asked me to help her bake a fantastic cheesecake. We brainstormed ideas and decided since gorgeous, sweet California strawberries are now at the market, to make strawberry cheesecake. However, we didn’t want just an ordinary strawberry cheesecake, we wanted it to look spectacular. So we paired it with an Oreo cookie crust, left the berries whole, arranged them artfully on top of the cake, then drizzle the berries with a fresh strawberry glaze.Continue Reading

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If you like a Snickerdoodle cookie, you’re going to love Snickerdoodle bread. It has a crispy cinnamon sugar topping with a sweet, buttery, tangy interior. I’ve also added another layer of cinnamony goodness by loading it with luscious cinnamon chips.

Some of my family’s most loved recipes were recipes I posted when I first started blogging. I didn’t have very many followers. I only had a point and shoot camera, and I didn’t have any experience taking food photos. When I redesigned my site recently, I updated every post with the new Ziplist recipe format which makes it easy to print and save recipes. It was fun to look back at posts I’d written years ago, but the pictures really need updating too.

Snickerdoodle Bread is my first recipe rewind.  Snickerdoodle bread has become very popular on Pinterest. Lots of other food bloggers have blogged about Snickerdoodle bread since I posted it. In fact, one blogger’s picture has been pinned nearly 500,000 times. So I thought it was time to update my Snickerdoodle post with some great new pictures and highlight it for my readers who may have missed it when I first posted it.

In addition to updating the pictures, I also tweaked the recipe a little bit. The bread tasted fantastic, but the loaves were kinda flat on top. I wanted it to have the classic quick bread dome shape, especially since I’m taking loaves to share at the Big Traveling Pot Luck this weekend. So with the addition of one more egg and a bit more flour, I believe I’ve achieved Snickerdoodle bread perfection.

I created Snickerdoodle bread to sale at the Great American Bakes Sale. This year the Share Our Strength’s Bake Sale National Challenge Week is April 25th- May 1st. You can visit their website or Facebook page to find a Bake Sale in your area, or participate in a virtual bake sale.

I hope you’ll enjoy my recipe rewind posts. I’ll highlight some of the my favorite recipes that you may have missed with pretty, new pictures and additional recipe info and tips.

Visit my Snickerdoodle post for the new and improved Snickerdoodle recipe.

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A classic ooey, gooey cinnamon roll topped with a rich cream cheese frosting in a fun mini size perfect for a party. Betcha can’t eat just one. 

Annalise, Completely Delicious, recently hosted a pot luck baby shower brunch for our good friend Becky, Vintage Mixer. When you go to a pot luck party with food bloggers, you know you’re going to eat well, and the pressure’s on to make something extra special.

Becky mentioned in a comment on my Simply Sinful Cinnamon Muffins post that one of her only pregnancy cravings has been cinnamon rolls, so I couldn’t resist making cinnamon rolls to take to the shower. To make them easy to eat and serve at a pot lucky party, I decided to make mini cinnamon rolls like the ones you can get at the mall.

Amanda, Kevin and Amanda, baked some cute baby cinnamon rolls for a virtual baby shower last year. It’s a super easy, quick version made with crescent roll dough, but I wanted to use a traditional sweet yeast dough. I found just what I was looking for on the King Arthur Flour website. Their ”Cinnabon clone” recipe.

I filled them with the King Arthur Baker’s Cinnamon Filling, but if you don’t have that, I’ve given the ingredients for a substitute. I baked them in mini muffin tins, but you could also bake them on a baking sheet if you don’t have mini muffin pans. You can use dental floss or a serrated knife to cut your rolls, but I like to use my plastic dough scraper.

The little cinnamon rolls are a bit more work to make than big ones, but they’re perfect for a party. Most people had two or three, and  even took some home for “their kids.”  Kalyn, Kalyn’s Kitchen, gave them two thumbs up and said they reminded her of the ones her mom use to make for her growing up.

More cinnamon roll recipes you might like:

Bake Shop Cherry Cinnamon Rolls, Barbara Bakes
Pumpkin Fantail Cinnamon Rolls, Barbara Bakes
Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls, Cooking Classy
Parry’s Cinnamon Rolls, Two Peas and Their Pod

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