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Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pumpkin Swirl Bread

This incredible pumpkin cinnamon swirl bread captures the true essence of fall. It’s full of warmness in every bite. This is a recipe that uses bread flour for a truly bready and chewy feel in every bite. The pumpkin adds some nice sweet and earthy notes, and then comes that incredible cinnamon punch! Make it, freeze it and have toast a slice every morning with a cup of black coffee. Those would be some seriously delicious mornings.

If you've been following my blog, you know I'm all about cozy breakfasts and this bread is no exception. The pumpkin flavor is really there and the taste of cinnamon is a whole vibe. What I love the most is that even if it takes some time to make because of the proofing times for the dough, you will have breakfast for days!!

Imagine making this the week before Thanksgiving, freezing it and…

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Mallorca Bread Buns with Guava and Cheese

Ok, you love Mallorca bread buns! Those rich, soft and bouncy Puerto Rican type of brioche buns. Now, imagine them filled with guava paste and sweet cream cheese!! These Guava and Cream Cheese mallorcas are so incredibly delicious! The hint of guava spread through the layers of the bread make them subtly sweet. The creamy cream cheese in the center adds a nice tang creating a lovely contrast. Trust me when I say you will finish yours and will be looking around to see from whom you can steal an extra bite!

Baking mallorcas is pretty easy and they’re one of those simple pleasures that puts you in a real good mood. I loved them since I was a little kid and I was happy as a clam every time my grandpa came home with that clear bag completely dusted with…

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Pecan Cinnamon Rolls with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Icing

These sticky pecan cinnamon rolls with cinnamon cream cheese icing will be your new breakfast obsession for fall! They’re so soft and gooey that I couldn't even tear them apart prettily for the video. They kept falling down from my hands while dripping the syrup from the brown sugar filling. I have never been happier to have my hands so sticky!

Why are these pecan cinnamon rolls the best ones ever? First, I toasted the pecans for an intense nutty flavor. Second, I brushed a cinnamon simple syrup on top of the baked rolls to make them sticky. Lastly, I added…

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Easy Homemade Overnight Pizza Crust

This easy overnight pizza dough requieres no mixer, 5 basic ingredients and a minimum of hand kneading. This simple dough renders a crispy, golden and chewy crust. And you won’t need a pizza stone, a pizza peel or a pizza oven. You just need the basic tools you already have at home! If I did it that way, you can make it too!! For this pizza I added chopped rosemary and lemon zest to the dough and topped it with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, prosciutto, fig spread and arugula. But the magic of this recipe is that you can make it with whatever you want. It’s your creation! Now, hang up the phone because you won’t be needing delivery pizza anymore!

That was exactly what I thought after making my first pizza dough at home from scratch. It’s way too easy!! Okay, you will probably have pizza for delivery every now and then, but boy, you’ll think it twice! And since…

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Blueberry Cream Cheese Sweet Rolls

These sweet rolls are bursting with blueberry flavor in each bite! They’re filled with a spread of cream cheese and a homemade blueberry compote where you can see the whole blueberries on it, making these perfectly satisfying and not overly sweet. A pretty purplish cream cheese icing bring these to a whole new level! Oh, and these are perfectly made the day before, another big yes for these soft gooey rolls!!

Sweet rolls is something we can crave most mornings. Pretty sure you can crave them too. I love the idea of just grabbing a piece of something for breakfast without too much thought…

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Mallorca Bread Buns

These mallorcas are so light, puffy, fluffy and anything you might think could describe eating a sweet cloud! They’ll melt in your mouth, especially when warm or toasted. Traditionally these are served with confectioner’s sugar on top, but read below where I share other delicious ways for serving, including my favorite, toasted with butter and cinammon-sugar. So many ways to use this traditional Puerto Rican bread! I’m sure you’ll love this mallorca bread recipe!

If you haven’t heard about mallorcas before you might be wondering, what the heck are mallorcas? And I got you in here! Mallorcas are a Puerto Rican sweet bread that’s eaten mostly…

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Blueberry Jam Heart Shaped Doughnuts

You know it’s not Valentine’s in here if there aren’t Heart Shaped Doughnuts in my kitchen!! This year I sticked to my bready dough and filled them with a sweet elderflower blueberry jam. I also used the Tangzhong method for the dough to make it soft and fresh for days, not only the day they were fried. I’m also telling you how you can make these overnight and a few cool tips on how to reheat doughnuts to make them taste even better than when fried!

Maybe it’s because everyone loves these doughnuts so much, from you my readers to my neighbors in the first floor, that I couldn’t help to make these for Valentine’s. There’s something magical about them and ironically, I think it is the amount of work behind them, haha!! After you finally sit down with a doughnut in one hand, a cup…

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Golden Rum Raisin Super Soft Cinnamon Rolls

Believe me when I tell you that all you want for Christmas is these Dark Rum Golden Raisin Cinnamon rolls! These rolls are soft, warm and pillowy, like any good Christmas morning should be. As you could’ve guessed, I used golden raisins instead of dark and used dark rum instead of white rum for a warmer note. I smeared them in a classic butter cream cheese icing, with a bit of booze just to make the morning even more fun! This dough is so soft, you can bake these…

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Almond Sweet Rolls with Honey Caramel Glaze

If you want to give pecans and cinnamon a well deserved break, these yeasted almond sweet rolls with honey caramel glaze are the way to go! They’re the softest rolls ever, pillowy, sticky and super delicious. I used homemade almond paste for an intense almond flavor. You’ll see how easy it’s to make almond paste on this recipe! These almond sweet rolls are so soft they will be good…

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