Recipe: Easy Pumpkin Bread
You know, there’s a reason they call certain breads “quick breads.”
Because they bake quickly?
No, not particularly.
Because they’re easy to put together and, once out of the oven, disappear quickly?
Yes, and yes.
This moist, golden pumpkin bread, a member of our 5-Star Recipes Hall of Fame (a.k.a. top-rated recipes), meets the criteria in spades.
Recipe: Gluten-Free Apple Muffins
Did you know that sorghum is a member of the sugarcane family? (Hint: think sorghum syrup).
Did you know sorghum, a.k.a. milo, is the “fifth most important cereal crop grown in the world”? (says Wiki…)
Did you know sorghum flour makes a nicely moist, well-risen gluten-free muffin?
No?
Read on…
Paula Deen does it.
Allrecipes.com does it.
Taste of Home, cdkitchen, and food.com all do it.
Even LiveStrong does it.
But sometimes, King Arthur Flour just does it better.
Recipe: Velvet Pound Cake
Feeling a little squirrelly now that summer is over? Looking to stash away some great baking ideas for the fall holidays? Feel like tossing acorns at me to get me to stop already with the squirrel analogy?
Recipe: Cider Doughnuts
Will you look at this cider doughnut?
Doesn’t it bring to mind the county fair, with its cotton candy, corn dogs, candy apples, and fried dough?
Or maybe it reminds you of the doughnuts your mom or grandma or an older neighbor used to make. Doughnuts that were deep-fried, then tossed in a bag of sugar, or dipped in a syrupy glaze.
What IS it about warm streusel atop a muffin or coffeecake?
Is it the butter… the aroma of cinnamon… the slight crunch and deep flavor of just slightly caramelized sugar?
All three, I’d say.
The best part about many a coffeecake is when a few squares have been cut and served, and you press your finger over the streusel scattered in the bottom of the pan, and furtively bring it to your mouth…
Recipe: Spoon Bread
For a gal born and raised in New England, I often find myself enamored with traditional foods from the South rather than the North. Brace yourself Mabel, I’m about to cross the line…
Recipe: Maple Corn Muffins
Is there anything quite as lovely as a simple corn muffin?
Its sunny interior perfectly reflects the color of the corn from which it springs.
You know the liquid-yellow hue of a just-shucked ear of corn? It’s not Crayola yellow, nor golden, nor even bright lemon.
No, fresh corn is a pale but rich yellow, the color you might expect an opal to be – if opals came in yellow.
The muffin pictured above isn’t exactly corn-colored; it’s a deeper tone, a combination shucked corn and mahogany. But its slightly less sunny color is the result of a secret ingredient…
Recipe: Gluten-Free Cornbread
Golden-brown crust.
Sugar-and-gold corn interior.
The melted gold of pure, rich butter.
It all adds up: this cornbread is absolutely golden!
Recipe: Heavenly Healthy Banana Bread
What’s the most searched-for bread recipe online?
Hint: an example is pictured above.
With nearly 1.2 million searches every month for the recipe, this particular bread is obviously a favorite of foodies everywhere. Or maybe it’s simply the Holy Grail of bread recipes: much sought after, never found.
