TBB – Swedish Apricot Walnut Bread

February 02, 2015 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Bread, Cookbooks, The Baking Bible

As a home baker, I think we all get comfortable with our baking, collecting those recipes that speak to your own flavor profiles and those of our family. Like a nice comfy blanket, no matter what, when you wrap yourself in it, you are safe.

I think one of the reasons that I joined a bake along in the first place was to expand on those comfortable recipes. I wanted to develop my flavor profiles and also my baking techniques. I wanted to feel afraid and experience those hit and misses. I truly believe that we learn the most with our failures rather than our successes.

TBB - Gingersnaps

January 25, 2015 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Cookbooks, Cookies, Cooking Club, Sweets, The Baking Bible

I think all the Alpha bakers gave a little prayer when Marie posted the next baking assignment and flagged it with the “Q&E”(quick and easy) stamp.

After the Golden Panettone, I think we were all looking for some breathing room.

So this week it was a cookie recipe.

TBB - Golden Orange Panettone

January 18, 2015 by Monica in Baking, Baking Club, Bread, Sweets, The Baking Bible

You all know my Italian roots, so it may come as a surprise that as an Italian family, none of us bakers in the family ever made Panettone at home. We all knew that baking this at home was time consuming and even my paternal nonna, who was a very serious baker, would leave it to the pros. Every holiday, she would simply place an order with our local Italian bakery and “voila” fresh, delicious Panettone would magically appear at our home in time for us to polish it off before it even left the pretty wrapping it came in.