Pulla, a soft and fluffy cardamom bread recipe from Finland, is easy to make without a bread machine or mixer. This authentic sweet treat tastes great with coffee on a cold day! This beautiful braided Finnish cardamom loaf will disappear quickly among family and friends.
This Portuguese Sweet Bread (Massa Sovada) is just like the ones from the bakeries. It is sweet, light, and fluffy. Serve as is or buttered and grilled. It's amazing!
Spanish Bread are soft bread rolls that are filled with a sweet, buttery paste, dusted with bread crumbs and baked to golden perfection.
Homemade shortbread cookies filled with vanilla buttercream.
Mini Egg Pies are creamy, buttery, and the perfect portable size for parties and gatherings. They're delicious as a midday snack or after-meal dessert.
If you want this delicate custard wrapped up by layers of thin, crunchy phyllo bathed in delicious, succulent syrup, you should make galaktoboureko, the famous Greek custard pie.
Soft bread rolls slathered in creamy and milky yema icing.
Spanish bread is a popular 'merienda' in the Philippines with a sweet buttery filling! Try this delicious Filipino Spanish bread for your afternoon snack.
Kolaches are a Czech sweet pastry, usually filled with jam, poppy seeds or a cheese filling and topped with a sweet crumble.
Sweet Yogurt Burek - a filo pastry pie layered with a sweet yogurt based cream.
Delicious to eat and fun to make, rugelach are miniature crescent-rolled pastries with a sweet filling.
This special ensaymada recipe (also known as Filipino sweet buns) is a sweet and cheesy bread that is usually paired with coffee. It can be bought from any bakery and is usually enjoyed as a mid-afternoon snack.
Spanish Bread are soft bread rolls that are filled with a sweet, buttery paste, dusted with bread crumbs and baked to golden perfection.
Traditional halloumi pies Χαλλουμοτες
If you love chewy, mochi-like waffles (like pandan waffles), then you will love this ube waffle version. It's just as quick and easy to prep and make during the week for an extra special treat.
This special ensaymada recipe (also known as Filipino sweet buns) is a sweet and cheesy bread that is usually paired with coffee. It can be bought from any bakery and is usually enjoyed as a mid-afternoon snack.
This impressive coffee cake is swirled with a luscious almond filling. To balance the sweetness, it has a hint of nuttiness that's excellent with coffee or a cup of hot cocoa. This is the sort of treat you might have in Sweden, where the tradition of fika (taking some time to slow down, reconnect, and enjoy a sweet baked good and a warm beverage) is a daily ritual.
A layer of currants squashed between two layers of dough, then baked, Garibaldi biscuits are buttery, fruity and easy to make. Also known as flies graveyard or squashed fly biscuits, these cookies have a crispy exterior and soft centre and are perfect with a cuppa.
Mallorca bread is Puerto Rican sweet rolls. They are plump, fluffy, buttery rolls dusted with powdered sugar. The perfect compliment to a cup of coffee.
These sourdough cream filled doughnuts are deliciously light and soft - filled with a creamy and rich vanilla pastry cream.
Sweet tarts, cheesy appetizers, savory pies, and more.
A fantastic chocolaty treat. Great dipped in tea!
Soft and fluffy buns filled with a creamy and smooth milk cream, you are going to love this Pan de Leche for an indulgent bread treat.
Spanish Bread are soft bread rolls that are filled with a sweet, buttery paste, dusted with bread crumbs and baked to golden perfection.
An authentic British Scone is the perfect accompaniment to your warming cup of tea, particularly if you have some clotted cream and jam to serve it with!
Bread Bakers host Stacy wanted us to make sweet Holiday yeast breads this month. This Finnish Nisu / Nissua is a cardamom flavoured sweet bread which is also known as Pulla. This is a enriched doug…
Taiwanese castella cake has a signature fluffy, bouncy texture, and the most delicate sweetness. This popular Taiwanese dessert, is made with simple ingredients and yields the most satisfying bite you’ve ever tasted.
These traditional sweet Greek honey puffs are one of my favourite desserts. So I was excited to prepare this dairy free Lenten alternative, which is just as delicious as the traditional Greek honey puffs!
The Polish recipe calls for budyn, a powdered custard which might be tricky to find outside of Poland, so I used thick pouring custard instead. You can bake the pastry form-free or if you happen to have a 30cm x 20cm cake tin, use that. You can work with the dough ball while still warm, for flaky pastry, allow the dough ball to cool completely to room temperature before adding eggs. This will help create the layers.
Andrea Slonecker demonstrates how to make kolaches with a cream cheese filling and various jams.
An easy and tasty vegan scone recipe. This classic British tea time treat is ready in just 30 minutes.
Recipe for traditional Greek Sweet Semolina pie known as "bougatsa" - delicious baked phyllo filled with vanilla semolina custard.
Velvet Noodle Pudding
My favorite Filipino dessert by far is Bigingka. It’s a thin, unfrosted cake made with sweet rice flour and cream of coconut.
These light, fluffy, sweet custard buns are reminiscent of something from an old-school bakery. You can make the dough ahead of time and leave it in the fridge until it’s time to roll and bake - just be sure to give yourself enough time for the second proving.
I have reached new levels of gourmet satisfaction. Seriously. Last week, I made about 3 kg of caramelized onions and ever since, I have been adding them to anything savoury. The majority of them were quickly thrown in a sandwich between melted cheese and occasional pieces of chicken. It might be time to go on a veggie cure… What do you think? I am thinking I should stop soon anyway before I have a caramelized onions overdose, because that, my friends, would be sad.
When the theme “Sweet as Pie” was announced for this months Sweet Adventures Blog Hop hosted by KC of the Capers of a Kitchen Crusader… apple pie came to mind. Warm apple pie with…
My perfect fail safe vanilla custard. Once you have made your own you will never purchase ready made again.
Dream layers of flaky phyllo dough are filled with a vanilla custard and topped off with pistachios and honey for a new take on an elegant Greek pastry.
Galaktoboureko is a Classic Greek pie that is made with a semolina custard and wrapped in flaky, buttery, crisp phyllo. These rolls are the individual version and might be better than the original dessert. They are baked to a golden perfection and then drenched in an aromatic syrup.
Have you had Loukoumades (Greek Doughnuts) before? I'm drooling just looking at them! They're simple dough balls served warm with cinnamon and honey/syrup.
Recipe reproduced with permission from Modern Jewish Baker by Shannon Sarna, published by Countryman Press.
These traditional sweet Greek honey puffs are one of my favourite desserts. So I was excited to prepare this dairy free Lenten alternative, which is just as delicious as the traditional Greek honey puffs!
