Mustard & Cheddar Loaf

So for the month of February, the British Bake Off International Challenge was to make a Mustard and Cheddar Loaf. I have had some successes with making bread in the past, so I was pretty excited about it. For our challenges, the admins of our little group are choosing recipes from “The Great British Bake…

Bread, you’re a star!

So just before Christmas, the baking blog I follow brought out this recipe for ‘Star Bread’. It was one of the most beautiful and complicated bread creations I’d ever seen. I really wasn’t sure I’d be able to pull it off. Basically, you make your bread dough like normal and then cut it into four…

January Baking Challenge

I’m so excited, guys. I completed January’s baking challenge for http://www.sallysbakingaddiction.com. A few posts ago, I mentioned that Sally does monthly challenges to help bakers learn how to bake new things and pushes us out of our comfort zones. This month’s challenge is bagels. Which means bread and yeast. Yeast can be really intimidating, and…