Breads

What is Thanksgiving without soft yeasty rolls? Here is a great recipe from Blue Cayenne’s archives: Soft Dinner Rolls.

Bored with all the traditional recipes for banana bread? Here is a unique variation on the traditional banana bread recipe—one replete with optional (and tasty) Middle Eastern vibes.  (If you are a banana bread traditionalist, don’t pass this recipe up because of the perhaps-unfamiliar Middle…

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for Double Chocolate Banana Muffins–a perfect breakfast muffin as we slip into Fall. You will find the…

Love biscuits? This crisp-tender sweet biscuit is a perfect base for those oh-so-wonderful end-of-the-season (have I used enough hyphens here?) strawberries in our farmer’s markets right now.   This recipe is from Stella Park’s extraordinary cookbook BraveTart. You can order this great cookbook through your local…

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is for Buttermilk Molasses Quick Bread, a bread that would be just right as the base for some…

There are few things better than a warm blueberry muffin and a hot cup of tea in the early morning drowsiness of waking up.  This is a very good muffin. Actually, it is a small loaf, baked in my small loaf pan shown below.  My…

Every month Blue Cayenne features recipes from our archive of more than four hundred recipes. These recipes are our “Oldies But Goodies.” Today’s Oldie But Goodie recipe is perfect to celebrate spring. It’s a recipe for Hot Cross Buns: Hot Cross Buns. You don’t want to…

Got ripe bananas? Got a chocolate craving? Can’t face one more banana bread? These muffins are for you. Eat them for breakfast, dessert, midnight snack, mid-morning snack, midnight and mid-morning snack, afternoon tea, party treat. Heck, slip one in your purse.  They’re a compact, very…

Lately, I’ve been craving a good burger. So, I bought a package of Impossible Beef in the deli section of my local Trader Joe’s, gathered all the trimmings, and set about making some fresh hamburger buns rather than those sad buns you see in big…

Ellen was one of my students at Los Alamitos High School. We reconnected a few years ago through our mutual love of bread baking. Now I am her student. Ellen operates a You Tube channel,  Bread Machine and Baking Videos With Ellen Hoffman. Her specialty…