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I’m excited to announce that The Bread Experience is hosting BreadBakingDay (BBD) #29. BreadBakingDay was created by Zorra of http://kochtopf.twoday.net/stories/4124192/. Read more about Bread Baking Day and access the previous roundups on her blog. BBD #28: Bread Buns was hosted by Tangerine’s Kitchen. Check out all of the beautiful bread buns in the BBD #28 Roundup – Part 1 and BBD #28 Roundup –
I decided to make something festive to celebrate Spring and Easter. I’ve been wanting to make Carrot Marmalade for several months but just hadn’t gotten around to it. I almost made it for the February Tigress CanJam, but I ran out of time and decided to make pickled carrots instead. I got inspired to make marmalade again when we made Carrot Bread for the HBinFive
The second bread in the HBinFive April 1st Bread Braid, is Olive Spelt Bread. I don’t particularly like olives so I omitted them. I made a free-form artisan loaf. However, once I tasted it, I realized this dough would make great sandwich bread. The addition of yogurt makes it very moist and delicious! I also like that it’s made with mostly spelt flour. Spelt
The first bread in the HBinFive April 1st Bread Braid is Carrot Bread. The authors described this bread as the bread version of carrot cake. I liked the sound of that! I love carrot cake! In one of the online discussions, some of the other bakers had mentioned they liked to bake bread in their clay or ceramic bakers. That reminded me that I hadn’t
After I finished the BBA Challenge, I joined the Mellow Bakers baking group. We baked breads from Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes by Jeffrey Hamelman. The first bread was English Hot Cross Buns. I had never made hot cross buns before so I was looking forward to this one. They sounded delicious! And, let me tell you, they are delicious! “Hot
