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Top 10 Tarts, Cakes & DessertsTo mark World Baking Day, we present ten delicious cake, dessert and pastry recipes from our archives. Turn that oven on and get cooking!
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Christmas Treats & Sweets: Top Eight RecipesBe inspired by our best festive baking and sweet recipes. You don't have to be an expert cook to wow your family and friends!
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What You Can Learn about Sourdough from YouTubeCreating and maintaining your own sourdough can be a challenge. Here are four of the best YouTube channels with tips & tricks.
Recipes
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Italian BaguetteA fresh baguette is simply a pleasure: whether plain, with herbs from Provence or, in Italian-style, with sun-dried tomatoes and olives.
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Crostata di MarmellataWonderfully fruity: Letitia Clark's 'Crostata di marmellata' from the book 'La Vita è Dolce'.
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Basic Strudel Dough RecipeHenriette Rois bakes her tasty strudels in the kitchen of her hotel. She now reveals her recipe for strudel dough to Falstaff.
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Peanut Butter & Chocolate CupsThe combination of chocolate and nut butter is delicious. Max La Manna shares his recipe for sweet, creamy cupcakes that are both vegan and sugar-free.
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Raspberry BiscuitsA fruity biscuit creation by Julian Kutos best served with afternoon coffee.
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Blooming FocacciaTheresa Baumgärtner shares this and many other recipes in her cookbook titled Spring Awakening.
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Spelt & Wild Garlic BreadSeasonal specialty bread that has the aroma of spring with the inclusion of wild garlic.
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Potato BreadIn her new cookbook 'Fresh & simple', Anastasia Lammer shows how to make this delicious home-baked potato bread. The secret is to bake it in a heavy cast-iron pan, which gives the bread a wonderful crust.
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English Muffins with Bacon and EggsHomemade English muffins are a breakfast-time treat. They take a bit of planning ahead, but they're deceptively easy to make – and you can cook them in a frying pan. Serve them with bacon and fried eggs, and have a large pot of tea at the ready.
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Banana Cake with Miso Butterscotch and Cocoa KulfiUsing miso only for soup would be a shame! One of the best alternatives is to use it to make this butterscotch, which goes wonderfully with the famous banana cake from Jikoni restaurant in London.
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Swiss Christmas BiscuitsThese buttery, lemony biscuits are known as Mailänderli and hail from the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
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Chocolate “Sausage”The Christmas cookies with the unusual name "chocolate sausage" are the favourite recipe of our Austrian online editor-in-chief's family.
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Persian BiscuitsA Persian Christmas biscuit recipe for those occasions when time is short.
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Vanilla Crescent Biscuits "Vanillekipferl"These vanilla crescents are a favourite Austrian Christmas pastry. Here is a recipe from the famous Demel confectioners in Vienna.
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Butter BiscuitsThis recipe for biscuits with sugar icing from Dietmar Muthenthaler, the head pastry chef at Demel, is not your typical Christmas recipe but super moreish nonetheless.
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Rum Balls with Macadamia ButterA little Christmas treat with exquisite flavours.
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Christmas ShortbreadThe aromas of this Scottish classic have been adapted for the Christmas season.
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Focaccia BreadHave you ever baked focaccia yourself? Julian Kutos has this classic with herbs and olives, ideal for an aperitif with friends.
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Green Asparagus QuicheJulian Kutos has a spring-like quiche recipe with green asparagus and bacon.
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Ham and Asparagus Pastry RollsAnja Auer serves up seasonal finger food with a chive and sour cream dip.
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Alsace Classic: Tarte FlambéeThe original Flammkuchen or Tarte Flambée, comes from Alsace, is called Flammekueche in local dialect - and requires a wafer-thin, crisp pastry base.
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Rhubarb TarteIt is rhubarb time! Fresh, tart, fruity - we pack all these flavours into one beautiful tart. Have fun baking it!
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Mediterranean Focaccia Bread with Grana Padano and San DanieleThis is what Italy tastes like: a summery recipe by chef Andrea Mantovani.