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Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread

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Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread.

Super easy apple cinnamon quick bread. I love using the food processor to shred my apples. You get lots of apple in every bite this way. You could also use a grater or just chop the apples up.

Make sure to grease and sprinkle the pan with sugar and cinnamon before you add the batter!

        

   

 

Apple Cinnamon Quick Bread
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups shredded apples (I used food processor)
  • For dusting pan and topping:
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees. Mix the 2 T sugar and ¼ t of cinnamon together. Grease loaf pan, sprinkle half of the sugar/cinnamon in the pan and shake it around to coat the pan. Set aside the other half.
  2. In a bowl mix flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together. In another bowl mix oil, eggs, vanilla and sour cream together. slowly add the flour mixture to the other bowl until combined. Fold in shredded apples,
  3. Add batter to pan, sprinkle with remaining sugar/cinnamon.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 48-52 mins. Toothpick inserted in middle should come out clean.

 

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Cinnamon Swirl Bread (Dairy Free)

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Cinnamon Swirl Bread that is Dairy Free.

Made with oil instead of butter and water instead of milk. This is my go to dairy free bread recipe. I use it as a base for cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, hamburger buns, classic white loaf bread, & cinnamon bread. We have some dairy free allergies in our family so this recipe comes in very handy.

I use my bread machine to knead the dough for this recipe. I just use it for the dough cycle then bake the bread in the oven. A stand mixer fitted with a dough hook or kneading by hand works too. This recipe below makes 1 loaf of Dairy Free Cinnamon Swirl Bread. If you want to make 2 loaves then you can double the recipe. A lot of times I double the recipe and make one cinnamon swirl loaf and one classic white loaf.

Cinnamon Swirl Bread (Dairy Free)
 
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Ingredients
  • 1⅛ teaspoons yeast
  • ½ cup warm water
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 large egg
  • 2½ Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • -Cinnamon Mix-
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Add ingredients to bowl or bread machine in order above.
  2. Mix/knead dough using your favorite method (by hand, using a stand mixer with dough hook, or a bread machine). Knead dough for about 10 min. or until it feels smooth & elastic but still a little tacky. You may need to add a little extra flour or water to get the right consistency.
  3. (If using a bread machine then set to the dough cycle & you can either let it cycle through or unplug it after its kneaded the dough for 10-15 min.)
  4. Let dough rise covered for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
  5. On a lightly floured surface roll out dough about 7x20".
  6. Mix cinnamon and sugar together and spread evenly over the dough (I usually use my hand to smooth it out).
  7. Start at one of the 7" ends and tightly roll the dough up and place in a greased 1.5 quart bread loaf pan.
  8. Let rise for 1 hour or until double in size.
  9. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees.
  10. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until it is golden brown.
  11. Let cool in pan about 15 minutes and then remove.

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Dinner Rolls (Dairy Free)

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Dinner Rolls that are dairy free.

This recipe for dinner rolls is my go to recipe for holidays. I have made it every year for Thanksgiving  for a while now. The recipe below makes a small batch of about 11 dinner rolls. I brushed the top with olive oil when they are done baking.

My aunt got me a beautiful handmade 9″ ceramic pie plate so I couldn’t wait to use it to make this dinner roll recipe, next time I’m making an apple pie with it. If you don’t have a 9″ pie pan then you can bake it in a 8×8″ square pan also.

For this recipe I usually use my bread machine to knead the dough. I use the dough setting. My go to bread machine is made by Sunbeam and has lasted me years and years. You can also use a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook or knead by hand to make this recipe.

Dinner Rolls (Dairy Free)
 
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Recipe type: Bread
Ingredients
  • 1⅛ teaspoons yeast
  • ½ cup warm water
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 large egg
  • 2½ Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
  1. Add ingredients to bowl or bread machine in order above.
  2. Mix/knead dough using your favorite method (by hand, using a stand mixer with dough hook, or a bread machine). Knead dough for 8-10 min. or until it feels smooth & elastic but still a little tacky. You may need to add a little extra flour or water to get the right consistency.
  3. Let dough rise covered for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
  4. Divide dough into small balls (about 11) & place in a greased 9" pie pan.
  5. Let rise for 1 hour or until double in size.
  6. Preheat oven to 350 F. degrees.
  7. Bake for 18-22 minutes or until rolls are golden brown.
  8. Brush with olive oil after done baking if desired.

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Fiji Honey Cake

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Fiji Honey Cake.

I had never heard of this until I was watching a Hallmark movie and they were eating it in the movie lol. I looked up a few recipes for it and decided to try making it. My daughter said it tasted like banana bread without the bananas. It’s great on it’s own, but amazing with brown sugar and cinnamon cream cheese spread!

I tried to find out a little more info on the Fiji Honey Cake. I looked for history or anything about it and could only find recipes, so let me know if you have heard anything else about it.


Fiji Honey Cake
 
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Recipe type: dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ¼ cups sugar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • ½ cup honey
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • ¼ teaspoon pumpin pie spice
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1¼ cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons sliced almonds (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease loaf pan.
  2. In large bowl combine sugars, sour cream, honey, egg, oil, spices and vanilla. Add in the flour and baking soda mix until combined.
  3. Pour batter into pan and sprinkle with almonds.
  4. Bake for 40-45 mins or until toothpick comes out clean. Let cool.

 

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Artisan Honey Bread (5 Ingredients)

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Artisan White Honey Bread made with 5 Ingredients.


This recipe is made with 5 ingredients: water, flour, yeast, salt, & honey.

If you have never made bread before then this recipe is a great place to start! I love that this recipe doesn’t require the use of a bread machine or for you to spend any time kneading dough. You just mix it up in a bowl & let it rise. The only thing hard about this recipe is having the patience to wait for the dough to rise. From start to finish it takes about 3 hours but the majority of that time is spent just waiting for the dough to rise & then bake in the oven.

Source: This recipe is adapted from the amazing book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. The authors also have a great video on YouTube that is very helpful: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day.

Artisan Honey Bread (5 Ingredients)
 
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Recipe type: Bread
Ingredients
  • 1½ Cups warm water
  • ½ Tablespoons + ¼ Teaspoon Salt
  • ½ Tablespoon Yeast (I used Red Star Quick-Rise Yeast)
  • 3¼ Cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • ½ tablespoon raw honey
Instructions
  1. Add yeast to large mixing bowl, next add warm water to activate the yeast.
  2. Add flour, honey & salt to the large mixing bowl & stir all the ingredients together.
  3. The bread should be just a little sticky but not too much, if it's really sticky & wet add a little extra flour, if the dough is super dry then add a little more water (sometimes I have to add a little extra water to mine).
  4. Cover the bowl but not airtight (I placed a clean kitchen towel over the top of the bowl) & let it rise for 2 hours.
  5. After 2 hours place the dough onto a well floured surface. If you want to make 2 smaller sized loafs of bread then divide the dough in half.
  6. Shape the dough by picking it up & using your hands to fold the edge of the dough under until you have a round loaf shape with smooth edges. Place onto a greased cookie sheet.
  7. Using a serrated knife cut the loaf (about a ¼ inch) into the center & then also make one about 1 inch to the left of center & one to the right so the top doesn't crack while its baking (See picture above).
  8. Let it rise for 40 more minutes.
  9. After the 40 minutes, preheat oven to 450 degrees BUT first place a metal 9x13 inch pan onto the bottom rack of your oven (*WARNING*: Do Not use glass, it can explode or shatter!)
  10. When the oven is preheated place cookie sheet with bread onto the middle rack of your oven then quickly add 1 cup of water to the bottom 9x13 pan you have on the bottom rack. This pan is used to create a steam in the oven while the bread bakes, in the end it will make your bread have a nice hard crusty texture on the outside but still be soft inside.
  11. Bake for 18-30 minutes or until the top & bottom are a nice golden brown color. If your making 2 small loaves it will probably be done in 18-20 minutes but if your making one large loaf it will take longer.
  12. Remove from oven & let it cool for awhile so it will slice easier, then enjoy!

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Garlic Knot Rolls

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Fluffy Garlic Knot Rolls.

I was inspired to try making homemade garlic knots after finding they made them at a little local Italian restaurant near me. I made them dairy free with olive oil but you can swap out the olive oil for butter if you want to, butter always has a good flavor too! I love butter but I had to make them dairy free so everyone could eat them.

     

Shaping the knots…

I rolled out the dough into a 6″x8″ rectangle approximately. I used a pizza cutter to slice them into 1″ strips about 4″ long. Then you want to flour them on top a little so they don’t stick when you tie them into knots. You take each piece, tie it into a knot, tuck the ends under, & place on a greased cookie sheet to rise before baking.

I normally add fresh parsley to the topping but my parsley plant isn’t doing so good right now, you can also use dried parsley flakes if you want.

I used a bread machine to knead the dough like I almost always do but you can use a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook or knead by hand.

PS. These are really good left over, I think they have a stronger garlic flavor the next day after sitting.

Garlic Knot Rolls
 
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Recipe type: Bread
Ingredients
  • ½ cup of warm water
  • 1¼ teaspoons quick rise yeast
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil (may use butter or vegetable oil also)
  • ½ Tablespoons brown sugar
  • ½ Tablespoon sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • Topping:
  • 1½ tablespoon olive oil or melted butter
  • 1-2 garlic cloves minced
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • parsley fresh or dried flakes (optional)
Instructions
  1. Add warm water & yeast to bread machine or mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients starting with the flour.
  2. Set your bread machine to dough cycle if your using a bread machine. Or use a stand mixer with dough hook to knead the bread or mix the dough by hand for about 15 minutes until dough becomes a soft elastic like ball. Add more flour or water if needed to get the right consistency.
  3. Cover and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
  4. Roll out on floured surface to a 6x8 inches rectangle (I use a rolling pin).
  5. Cut 1 inch thick strips, so each stick should be about 1x4 inches. Flour lightly & tie each strip into a knot, tucking ends under (I use a pizza cutter to cut the strips).
  6. Place onto greased cookie sheet
  7. Let rise for 30-40 minutes
  8. Preheat oven to 375 F. degrees
  9. Mix olive oil, fresh minced garlic, garlic powder, & parsley (optional) together in small bowl.
  10. Brush knots with oil mixture.
  11. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until light golden brown.
  12. Brush with remaining olive oil/garlic mix.

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