Author: Baking Summit

Finally, finally, we come to the end of my most epic Christmas bread bake! Cinnamon Buns are not a particularly holiday related bread but who doesn’t love a great BUN! This “beyond” formula is from the bread baker’s apprentice and is essentially a brioche rolled into a cinnamon bun. I also topped mine with my […]

Hello and Happy orthodox Christmas, Friends and Fellow Bakers! I will post the last bread tomorrow. Today we have Vanocka, from the Czech Republic. I found this bread interesting to make, it is a fairly basic enriched bread with eggs and butter. The recipe (from the Czech cookbook) calls for raisins, but by the time […]

Here we are, Friends and Fellow Bakers, coming close to the end of my 12 breads of Christmas series! I had never heard of this bread before, but I am really glad I made it. It was my favourite of the fruit breads to eat by far. I used this recipe by chainbaker.com, which called […]

Why hello there Friends and Fellow Bakers! Here we have another bread that has nothing to do with Christmas: Vienna bread! I made Vienna bread the first time in high school and I remembered liking it, so I added it to this little Christmas project because WHY NOT. Vienna bread is a fairly basic sandwich […]

Hello and happy back to work day for me, Friends and Fellow Bakers! This German Christmas Bread, like most of the others, is filled with liquor-soaker dried fruit (apricots, currants, cherries, and cranberry) and almonds. The shape of the stollen is meant to evoke the swaddling blanket of the baby Jesus. I’m not sure I […]

Hello and Happy New Year, Friends and Fellow Bakers! Here we have the sixth bread of Christmas, a soft and fluffy honey roll served in Eastern Europe. These little rolls are usually served with poppyseeds, but I decided to put everything bagel seasoning on mine. Long time readers here at Baking Summit know this is […]

Here we are again Friends and Fellow Bakers! All of this bread is encroaching on my kitchen… Dave has handed some of it out to neighbours and I have frozen some of it, but this project has created an insane amount of bread. I am almost finished though, so we will be back to technical […]

Hello again Friends and Fellow Bakers. I am adding this preface to this post as I had some constructive feedback on social media. I would like to apologise if it seemed that I was representing Challah as a part of Christmas. I also apologise if my attempt to call out that Challah as unrelated to […]

Hello Friends and Fellow Bakers! Here we are with Pannetone, an Italian Christmas bread that is widely commercially produced. I made the version from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice, which includes cherries, cranberries, almonds, and raisins. Legend has it that a baker named Tony invented this bread to impress the father of the woman he wanted […]

Hello there Friends and Fellow Bakers! Here we are with the third holiday bread I have chosen: Cranberry Walnut Celebration loaf. This is actually an original recipe from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice and as far as I am aware, is not a traditional bread at the moment. Let’s make this its grand debut, because it […]