Babka is an easter speciality made in Eastern Europe. The Jewish version of babka is usually baked in a laof pan with twisted dough filled with cinnamon or chocolate. The yeasted cake is topped with streusel, a crunchy topping made of flour, butter and sugar. This month’s Baking Partner Challenge…
BREADS
Eggless Julekake – Norwegian Christmas Bread
This month’s Baking Eggless Challenge was suggested by Priya Srinivasan of Enveetu Kitchen. As this year would be only breads at Baking Eggless, Priya suggested this Norwegian Christmas Bread which is loaded with raisins and candied citron. If you are not familiar with citron, it is nothing but naarthangai which…
Eggless Cinnamon Swirl Brioche
Brioche is a French Bread which is made of enriched dough. The dough is high in butter and egg content and results in a very soft crumb. Every time I see a brioche recipe, I take a step backward seeing the amount of eggs used. But when I saw this…
Koulouri/ Greek Politiko Simiti
The Baking Eggless group has completed two years and is entering the third successful year. For the last 24 months, in the group we have done so many experimenting and have prepared 24 dishes without eggs. We have done so many cakes and desserts. And for this year, we just…
Faluche Du Nord
Faluche is the traditional bread from Nord – Northern region of France. It is usually flat in shape and soft and slightly dense and mostly had as breakfast with bread and jam. It is also used to make sandwiches. The procedure is quite easy and the recipe is vegan too.…
Eggless Santa Claus Challah
For the Home Baker’s challenge, I made two recipes from the recipes suggested by Priya. One being the Snowmen Butter Cookies, the other one I chose was Challah. Challah is a Jewish braide bread relished on Sabbath. It consists of eggs and that gives a fluffy bread. I have made…
Eggless Slovak Paska Bread and Paska Peeps
Slovak Paska is an Eastern European Easter Bread made with eggs, sugar, milk, flour and yeast. It has so much decorative details on the top. For the Baking Eggless Challenge this month, everyone wanted anything other than sweets and so I selected this decorative bread. This is not loaded with…
Patequeta – Valencia’s Orchard Traditional Bread
For this month’s Baking Partners challenge, Marisa of Thermofan suggested this very traditional bread from Spain. I will give you a short introduction to this bread. This is a traditional bread of the city Valencia in Spain. The origin dates back to seventeenth century. The inhabitants of Valencia’s Orchard used…
Turkish Simit
Turkish Simit are sesame bagels shaped into a beautiful twisted round and dipped in sesame seeds to make an amazing breakfast.
Khaliat Nahal/ Khaliat Al Nahal Recipe
Today is the turn of Alphabet K and I chose to do an International recipe. This is an Arabic pull apart bread which is filled cream cheese and soaked in a honey flavoured syrup. Khaliat Nahal means bee hive in Arabic. The dough rolls are arranged like a bee hive…