Thursday, April 21, 2011

The joys of baking

Its Easter time and the time honored tradition to make hot cross buns lives on. I guess this is my year for retries and I'm doing well so far.

After seeing pictures of hot cross buns from a Trinidadian blogger (Breakfast Lunch Dinner Punch), I decided to try my hand at it again. O my was I delighted when they came out just as they should, even though I prefer them a bit more yellow. The texture was wonderful and it was just sweet enough. I skipped the cross because icing isn't one of my favorite things, so maybe next time.




Hot Cross Buns
Feeling high on my success with the sweet buns, I figured "why not go for gold"? One of my failings in baking is yeast breads, which I've accepted and worked around with my bread machine. I decided to give the Trinidadian bread "Hops" a try again. Talk about a wow moment when they came out of the oven perfect! I could do the jig. They we soft inside, and a little crisp outside. Ahhhh, the smells of home.
Freshly baked Hops Bread cooling on the racks

Nothing beats hot bread with butter!
Maybe I'll go pick another recipe to try out over the weekend.

1 comment:

  1. :-)yummy! Happy the recipe worked for you. Do you mind sharing your hops recipe? I've tested a few but haven't found one that I like.

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