Tag: Easter

Carrot Cake Bread loaves, some dotted with chocolate chips and garnished with walnut halves.

Carrot Cake Bread with a Crispy Sugar Crust

Carrot Cake Bread, spiced with cinnamon and ginger, is a delicious quick bread for a snack time treat or a casual dessert. Brush the tops of the loaves with egg white and sprinkle with sugar for a crispy crust. Scatter a few chocolate chips on top for added interest or garnish each loaf with a few walnut halves before baking. No matter the finishing details Carrot Cake Bread is an easy way to create Carrot Cake deliciousness with a minimum of fuss.

Bunny Breakfast Buns

Every year I think of making Hot Cross Buns.  I love the idea of them, the history and tradition.  If only I would embrace a little more advance planning I’m sure they would be delicious! And I do believe that it’s not about the bunny, that the true message and significance of our […]

Sweet Lamb Cinnamon Rolls

As the sap is rising in my backyard landscape, I can feel new strength in my healing arm. Gardening is both pleasure and exercise as I stretch my fingers in the warming earth

A slice of High Rise Angel Food Cake with berries, drizzled with chocolate ganache.

Remembering When: Angel Food Cake

This Angel Food Cake, inspired by a favorite book, is dependably light in texture and, when served alone or with fresh berries, is light in calories too. For many, that makes it a sweet indulgence and a perfect any-occasion dessert.

Broken Eggshell Cookie, Meringue egg white and ice cream yolk make up Cracked Egg Dessert

You’ve Gotta Break a Few Eggs…

What is it they say? To make a cake you have to break a few eggs? It’s the same with cookies, sometimes even more so… I found this idea for making an eggs-tra special Easter treat on a page I tore out of “Family Almanac” a decade ago. I didn’t […]

An Easter Bread Braid studded with Easter eggs beside a bowl of dyed Easter eggs.

Cardamom Citrus Easter Bread

The recipe for this festive Easter bread was developed over the years as I borrowed a bit from here, another thought from there, and arrived at a pretty braided loaf that has become a family tradition. Made from a soft flavorful yeast dough, Cardamom Citrus Easter Braid is drizzled with sweet icing and decorated with dyed Easter eggs.

Carrot Cake baked in a 9 x 13-inch pan and topped with cream cheese frosting and cream cheese carrots.

Carrot Cake with Walnuts and Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

I like the simplicity of this Carrot Cake. It relies on carrots, walnuts and spices for flavor, leaving out the sticky sweetness of pineapple and raisins that many recipes include. What’s more, this cake is moist and delicious and with four cups of carrots it might even be considered a vegetable dish. In any case, topped with Maple Frosting or Cream Cheese Frosting it makes a fantastic dessert.

Easter Teacakes with icing squiggles on a plate

Easter Teacakes

My husband has always loved Russian Teacakes. When we were first married it was one of the few recipes he specifically asked me to make for him. It was a cookie he remembered from his childhood. I wasn’t familiar with them. It was not a cookie that was part of […]

Peanut Butter Fudge Egg covered with Chocolate Fondant and decorated with icing flowers

Peanut Butter Fudge Easter Eggs

Earlier this month a friend invited me to join her in taking a Ukrainian Egg decorating class. The class was offered at Pomeroy Living History Farm. I was intrigued. I always enjoy visiting Pomeroy Farm and Ukrainian Pysanka Eggs are beautiful. What’s more the art of Pysanka has a certain […]