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HB in Five – Mixed Berry Muffins

One of our challenges this week was to make either bread or muffins from the Whole Wheat Mixed Berry Bread recipe in HB in Five.
Even though we are knee deep in blackberries, I wanted to follow the directions and use frozen berries. I used some of our blackberries from last year’s crop.
Some might object to [...]

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This week one of our challenges was making Turkish-Style Pita Bread.

This uses the master recipe dough from this book. I didn’t have black sesame seeds so I used regular sesame and poppy seeds.

Here is a closer look at the crumb.

I was expecting a pita which is much thinner. This turned out with a nice crumb [...]

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This week, one of the baking challenges involved the Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Brioche dough. I just couldn’t resist making cupcakes!

I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate so I substituted semisweet chocolate chips. Well, I asked my expert taste tester and head chef Dave what he thought about this recipe. He agreed with me that this is [...]

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This week our HB in Five Bread Challenge included two great recipes: Olive Spelt Bread and Carrot Bread.

The first bread I tackled was the Olive Spelt, which I made into buns. This recipe calls for twice the amount of spelt to unbleached all purpose flour. If you are not familiar with spelt flour, it’s an [...]

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HB in Five Mid-March Buns

This week for our HB in Five Bread Challenge we made two great breads – Avocado-Guacamole Bread and Pesto Pine Nut Bread.

Both of these were great breads – easy and fun to make. Unlike the others in the group, I have just been making buns because that’s what we like to eat with soup, salads [...]

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It's about the right gadgets

Last week I was working on the first baking challenge in the Healthy Breads in Five Minutes (HBin Five) – Spicy Whole Grain Snack Crackers. I emailed the group about my failure – my crackers were pillows of bread instead of crispy crackers. Michelle, our fearless leader, suggested that I needed to just practice rolling [...]

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