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
Toasted chai teacakes
Toasted teacakes are a classic teatime treat, so why not infuse them with spiced chai tea? Double the tea equals double the fun.
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Weekend baking
Maritozzi (Italian cream buns)
A maritozzo is an Italian brioche bun, filled with fluffy vanilla cream. Learn how to perfect this classic with baker Roberto Nitti.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Pumpkins
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
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 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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