Bake wholesome #realbread at home with tried and tested recipes from The Bread She Bakes
Easter is a delightful time for baking. For me, it’s the time when I move from hearty winter sourdough breads which go well with stews and soups to lighter spring and summer breads to accompany salads.
The Easter weekend itself provides a great opportunity to work with deliciously sweet and enriched doughs. Easter breads make great additions to your Easter weekend breakfast and impressive centre pieces for your dinner table.
This is my (slowly growing) collection of Easter bread recipes. Pick a recipe to try in your Easter break!
Easter breads figure prominently in many cultures’ celebrations and are often the centrepiece of a festive Easter breakfast or dinner table. In my kitchen, Easter is the time where fresh, seasonal and local Scottish produce can take centre stage again. The herbs in my allotment tend to have sprung back to life and the rhubarb is back to its vigorous growth. Easter is … Read more
Osterpinze is a delicious Easter bread, made with an enriched yeast dough (milk, eggs, egg yolks and butter) and flavoured with anise wine and lemon zest. It’s traditionally baked for Easter in the South of Austria (Styria), although its origins can be traced back to the region of Friuli in Northeast Italy. The traditional way the … Read more
Easter is a great time for baking – Spring is in the air, early gardening efforts are starting to bear fruit and there are lots of lovely seasonal baking ideas to play with. Hot cross buns are the traditional Easter treat in the UK. However, I’m not a huge fan of their fruit-heavy doughs and usually … Read more