Sweet bread recipes
There’s nothing better than a slice of freshly baked bread, especially when it has chocolate, jam, cinnamon, honey or dried fruits throughout.
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Baking recipes
Chocolate custard brioche
Set aside some time at the weekend to make these gorgeous chocolate brioche loaves from master baker Richard Bertinet.
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Sweet bread recipes
Khaliat nahal (Omani honeycomb bread)
Dina Macki shares her recipe for a magical sweet-savoury bread from Oman. This Omani honeycomb bread is traditionally eaten during Ramadan.
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Irish recipes
Spotted dog (Irish soda bread with sultanas)
Spotted dog is an enriched soda bread made with sugar, sultanas and egg. Cherie Denham shares her recipe for this Irish farmhouse classic.
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Brioche recipes
Brioche dough
Baker Anna Higham shares her recipe for beautifully glossy brioche dough. Use it to make a brioche loaf, buns or an incredible fruit tart.
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Weekend baking recipes
Iced cinnamon rolls
The soft and pillowy, lightly spiced and immensely comforting cinnamon roll is one of the baking world’s great joys.
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Rhubarb recipes
Rhubarb and custard brioche loaf
Peell away the layers of this heavenly tear-and-share brioche loaf. Between each sheet of pillowy dough sits a rich rhubarb custard.
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Easter baking ideas
Easter brioche loaf (mouna)
Debora Robertson shares her recipe for mouna, a sweet brioche-like Easter loaf. The sweet bread is studded with aniseed seeds.
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Festive desserts
Sweet golden dumplings with ginger sauce
These golden, sweet dumplings are a Christmas favourite in Hungary and Romania. Serve the warm, yeasted buns with a jug of vanilla sauce.
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Christmas baking recipes
Cozonac (Romanian Christmas and Easter bread)
Cozonac is a traditional Romanian bread, served at both Easter and Christmas. Irina Georgescu shares her recipe for cozonac with walnuts.
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Christmas baking recipes
Kolach (Ukrainian Christmas bread)
Step aside, panettone: there’s a new festive bake in town. Let Olia Hercules introduce you to kolach, a Ukrainian braided Christmas bread.
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Sweet bread recipes
David Atherton’s plaited loaf (Kozunak plait)
This is a Kozunak plait - a celebratory plaited loaf that hails from Bulgaria. It’s essentially a braided enriched bread – similar to Jewish challah.
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Pumpkin recipes
Bread Ahead’s pumpkin spiced doughnuts
These puffy doughnuts from the famed London bakery Bread Ahead are filled with pumpkin custard and dipped in toffee.
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Brunch recipes
Babka buns with Nutella and tahini filling
Nutella fans. Tahini enthusiasts. We see you! May we present these mouth-watering babka buns stuffed with a dreamy Nutella and tahini filling.
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Sweet bread recipes
Sweet tahini swirl buns
In this recipe, Yasmin Khan brings us a crisp, light Mediterranean tahini swirl bun that puts sesame-fragrant tahini front and centre.
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Brunch recipes
Flor’s lardy buns
Fancy a challenge? For the crispest, crunchiest and most satisfying breakfast buns, follow our step-by-step recipe for Flor's lardy buns.
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Brunch recipes
Pecan and cinnamon monkey bread
Studded with pecans and drizzled with vanilla icing, this soft, stickily sweet cinnamon monkey bread is irresistible as part of a brunch.
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