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Hope all of you had a wonderfull holiday celebrations.
Here we had a wonderful time.
For my New years present, Shyama gave me this cutest gift. She gave me a cookie cutter  ,a Garden Gnome I am in love with it then a cake carrier and Cutter for Baking a Ginger bread House.
According to her it is too difficult to buy presents for me as I have everything and she had to look and look in the

With Christmas this month it was to be expected that the Daring Bakers challenge for December would be festive and we weren’t disappointed as our task was to make stollen.
The 2010 December Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Penny of Sweet Sadie’s Baking. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make Stollen. She adapted a friend’s family recipe and combined it with information from friends,

I love making bread, and this one oozes Christmas with its festive shape and ingredients. You can use your favourite dried fruits and nuts, I chose to use a pack of Forest Feast ‘Dried Cherries and Berries’ and some roasted sliced almonds. Some Stollen breads have quite a bit of marzipan inside, but I prefer a smaller amount - I grate and spread it over the dough before rolling up.The bread can

At this time last year, I had all the time in the world to bake — 3 consecutive snow days. Yes, you read it right — three whole snow days out from work! Here’s the proof via snowmen built in our hood! That hadn’t ever happened on the East Coast. Over there I’d gone to work in blizzards, and actually it was kinda fun because you are ready for it and the sun shines on you most of the time, too.