Baking is our topic for today. Cookies, cakes, breads, what do you bake for the holidays? My go-tos are Pumpkin Bread (and I sometimes swirl some Nutella into it!) and Date and Walnut Bread. I make them both in the mini loaf pans so that I can wrap the loaves in colored cellophane and give them as gifts. They make a great thank you for coming to our holiday open house gift.
Here they are before they get their cellophane wrap
On a related note, Country Crock brings out a small tub of Honey Spread and one of Cinnamon Spread at the holidays which are the perfect accompaniment to these breads.
My other holiday standby is a rum cake. I have a recipe from a Bacardi advertisement that I cut out of a magazine years ago but this year, Vic told me about a great honey rum that he tried in Spain. It was from the Canary Islands and Total Wine for the win, I found a bottle for Father's Day. With all the chaos that was June, we didn't open it so I'm saving it for when he comes home.
What do you bake for the holidays?
Cookies, loaf breads, candy... the same recipes year after year with something new thrown in once in a while. Your loaves look yummy!
ReplyDeleteThe ones swirled with Nutella are delicious, especially when the slice is warm.
ReplyDeleteRhum cake? they were selling that when we went to Nova Scotia but they were out of tasting cake. I still should've bought one but wasn't sure if we'd like it or not and they were pretty expensive.
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